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The Ferrocarriles del Ecuador Empresa Pública (Ecuadorian Railways Company) is the national railway of Ecuador. The railway system was devised to connect the Pacific coast with the Andean highlands. After many decades of service the railway was severely damaged by heavy rainfall during the El Niño in 1997 and 1998 [ 1][ 2] and from general ...
A value-added tax identification number or VAT identification number ( VATIN[ 1]) is an identifier used in many countries, including the countries of the European Union, for value-added tax purposes. In the EU, a VAT identification number can be verified online at the EU's official VIES [ 2] website. It confirms that the number is currently ...
List of universities in Ecuador. Ecuadorian Universities. Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito. Universidad de Investigación de Tecnología Experimental Yachay, Urcuquí. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito. Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, Sangolquí.
The Faculty of Law including Race Race Law and Social Work, was established with the founding of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in 1962. It is one of the oldest faculties and has been present throughout the history of Ecuador. Their teachers were graduates and final character in many of the events that have changed the course ...
There were two military dictatorships in the country (1963–1966 and 1972–1979) before democracy returned with the election of Jaime Roldós Aguilera. From 1996 to 2005, 3 constitutional presidents were overthrown ( Abdalá Bucaram, Jamil Mahuad and Lucio Gutiérrez ). The left-wing populist government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017) has been ...
The University of Guayaquil ( Spanish: Universidad de Guayaquil ), known colloquially as the Estatal (i.e., "the State [University]"), is a public university in Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador . Estatal was founded in 1883. It is the oldest university in the city of Guayaquil and has the largest student body (over 80,000 students).
The Christian Social Party ( Spanish: Partido Social Cristiano, PSC) is a centre-left to centre-right political party in Ecuador. [ 2][ 5] The party was founded in 1951 under the name of Christian Social Movement ( Movimiento Social Cristiano) by Camilo Ponce Enríquez, who was Ecuador's president from 1956 to 1960, and Sixto Durán Ballén.
Regionalization, or zoning, is the union of two or more adjoining provinces in order to decentralize the administrative functions of the capital, Quito. In Ecuador, there are seven regions, or zones, each shaped by the following provinces: Region 1 (42,126 km 2, or 16,265 mi 2 ): Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura, and Sucumbios.