Take a Trip to Quito, Ecuador – The Heart of the Andes
Begin at the Independence Square, where, alongside the Presidential Palace stands the Metropolitan Cathedral and Archbishop’s ...
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‘Glass’ creatures — with see-through belly — discovered in the Andes. See new species
In the forested mountains of Ecuador, loud chirps ring out as the sun sets and darkness takes over. Though the sound is loud enough to be heard over the running water of mountain streams, it is ...
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Ecuador's colonial past 'written in soil'
Ecuador's "cloud forest" grows in a narrow ... runs along the flanks of the Andes mountains. Yet records from Spanish settlers showed a population of over 30,000 Quijos peoples living in the ...
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Lost Inca Gold
mist-veiled mountains in central Ecuador. Somewhere deep inside the unforgiving Llanganates mountain range between the Andes and the Amazon is said to exist a fabulous Inca hoard hidden from ...