The Geography Of Ecuador: A Small Country

Bolivia is a small but diverse country in both architecture and culture due to foreign

In Conclusion, Colombia is an amazing country. Currently it's a very large tourist attraction because of all of its amazing architecture, history, food, beaches, cities & parks. I would recommend going there.If you speak

El Salvador is a country on the Pacific coast of Central America, and borders Guatemala to the west and Honduras to the north and east (Geography). It is known for being the smallest Central American country and has an area equal to that of Massachusetts, it is also the

The Latin America region is south of North America on the world map. This region was once filled with countries that were at one point colonialized by European countries, but these countries are now independent. The Latin American region consists of mainly the South America continent, Central America, and Mexico. Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile, and many other countries make up this region. One thing that many people do not know is that Puerto Rico is an American territory and its inhabitants are United States citizens. The Latin American region does not offer the best economic situations, but it does have many other aspects to it.

     Ecuador is one of the smallest countries of South America. It lies on the West Coast of the continent between Colombia and Peru. The equator crosses Ecuador and gives the country its name. Ecuador is the Spanish word for equator.

The mountainous country bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, and Honduras in Central America. Known as the land of the Volcanoes, El Salvador, the only country in Central America that does not have a coastline on the Caribbean Sea. Having beautiful beaches on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and warm summers that make it impossible to withstand the heat. Most of the population is made up of the poor who do not have electricity or running water in their homes. My grandfather was is this social class and stayed for most of his life. El Salvador the land of dictatorship, volcanoes, and tortillas.

One can encounter every environmental extreme imaginable, from the intensely vertical terrain of the Andes, soaring up to altitudes of 5,000 meters (16,404 ft.) above sea level, to dry, low-lying lands along the western coast of South America. The climate zones are equally diverse, with some areas that are constantly hot and humid to others with subfreezing temperatures year round. Also within its boundaries are some of the driest places on earth- Chile’s Atacama Desert- to some of the most lush- the Amazonian rain forest to the east of the Andes- with rainy season lasting 11 months of the year. (Suarez and George 3)

This essay, firstly, will look at to what extent physical geography has affected Latin America in terms of economic growth. Secondly, it will focus on the other possible factors which have affected its economic growth. There has been much debate over the cause with some stating that geography is the culprit while others blame more social aspects such as politics and political instability, inequality, and educational attainment. This essay will attempt to evaluate to what extent these claims are true.

The geography of Bolivia is unique among the nations of South America. Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries on the continent (the other being Paraguay), and Bolivia is more urban (67%) than rural (23%). The main features of Bolivia's geography include the Altiplano, a highland plateau of the Andes, and Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake on Earth, which is shared with Peru.

Venezuela is considered a federal republic with a presidential system imposed. It contains a unicameral legislative branch, the National Assembly with 167 seats of which three are reserved for the indigenous citizens. Additionally, a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice which consists of 32 judges with 6 different divisions including: constitutional, electoral, criminal and more. Additionally, the political power is concentrated between two main

The physical geography of Latin America and the Caribbean greatly affect where people live by making some places are more desirable than others. One examples is the Panama Canal, which is runs across the Panama Isthmus in Central America. The Panama Canal is a large man-made canal, that connects the

There are many landforms in Colombia, each fitting into ecosystems that are intricately unique. The Amazon river is a habitat for animals (black caimans, piranhas, giant river otters, and pink dolphins) that are part of the surrounding Amazon rainforest ecosystem. The Colombian landscape is admittedly in many ways like other South American countries, but is nevertheless astonishing. There are the Andes mountains, the Amazon rainforest, the grassland plains, and a small area of desert. Some interesting landforms include the Andean Highlands, the Middle Magdalena Basin, Mt. Ritacuba Blanco, the Cumbal volcano.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated the country, leaving 200 dead and over 30,000 homeless (History). Several other disasters involve major earthquakes that struck the country in the early 2000s which damaged roughly 20 percent of all the property in El Salvador, and a drought that destroyed 80 percent of all the countries crops, leaving a harsh famine that spread throughout the country. After all this disaster in 2006 the nation of El Salvador started a free-trade agreement or (CAFTA) with the U.S, which made it the first Central American country to do so (History). On March 2009, Mauricio Funes became the first former FMLN party member to be elected president, this act ended two decades of conservative rule in the country and began a new era of presidents for the country.

Various peoples had settled in the area of the future Ecuador before the arrival of the Incas. The archeological evidence suggests that the Paleo-Indians' first dispersal into the Americas occurred near the end of the last glacial period ], around 16,500–13,000 years ago. The first Indians who reached Ecuador may

During 1999 and the first years of the new millennium, Ecuador experienced its worst economic downturn since the depression era of the 1930s. Ecuador ’s GDP fell by 30% in 1999 alone, and per capita income fell by 30% as we ll, leaving over 70% of Ecuador ’s 12.4 million people living in poverty. This recession caused a monetary crisis which saw the value of the sucre, Ecuador ’s currency, fall by 70% in 1999 and 2000. In order to stop the free fall of the sucre, and curb the attendant rampant inflation, the government was forced to dollarize their currency, or peg it to the American dollar. All of this economic instability led to the first military coup in Latin America in ten years, as President