Teleamazonas is an Ecuadorian television network that was launched on 22 February 1974. It is one of the major television networks in the country. It was founded by Antonio Granda Centeno and has two feeds: one produced in Quito and broadcast in the rest of the country, and the other one produced in and distributed in Guayaquil and Guayas.
José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri was President of Ecuador from 6 March 1845 to 8 December 1845. A patriot and poet, he was the son of the Spanish Captain Don Miguel de Olmedo y Troyano and the Guayaquilean Ana Francisca de Maruri y Salavarría.
Nelson Antonio Tapia Ríos is a former Chilean football goalkeeper and current football manager of Ecuadorian club Olmedo.
Miriam Estrada Castillo is a lawyer, and was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the daughter of Pablo Estrada Valle, one of the founders of CFP, which was one of the most important political parties of Ecuador in the fifties. She graduated from the American School of Guayaquil with honours and studied Law in the Faculty of Law and Social and Political Sciences of the University of Guayaquil, Ecuador, getting her academic degrees as a Doctor in Jurisprudence and a Bachelor in Social and Political Sciences as a Valedictorian. Her PhD thesis: "Revolution, Art, and Human Rights" was considered a contribution for the legal culture of Ecuador, receiving the honour of being published by the University of Guayaquil. She was awarded, amongst 1200 other graduates, with the "University of Guayaquil" Award, for obtaining the highest scores during her student life and for the contributions she made as an academic. She was married to the founder of the Choral Movement of Ecuador, Maestro Enrique Gil Calderon, with whom she had her three children, Abogado Alfredo Antonio Gil Estrada, Maestro Fernando Gil Estrada and Alba Yolanda Gil Estrada.
Colombia first formally participated at the Olympic Games in 1932, and has sent athletes to compete in all but one edition of the Summer Olympic Games since then, missing only the 1952 Games. Colombian athletes have won a total of 34 Olympic medals in eight different sports, with weightlifting and cycling as the most successful ones. Colombia is the third most successful South American country at the Olympic Games, after Brazil and Argentina respectively. The Colombian Olympic Committee was created in 1936 and recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 1948.
Ecuador has competed in 12 Summer Olympic Games. They debuted in the Winter Olympic Games in 2018. The nation won its first medal when Jefferson Pérez won the gold medal in the men's 20 km walk at the 1996 Olympic Games. The Ecuadorian National Olympic Committee was created in 1948 and recognized by the IOC in 1959.
Karina Galvez is an Ecuadorian American poet.
Ileana Espinel Cedeño was an Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer. She was born and died in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Her pen name was Ileana Espinal.
Yuri Alvear Orejuela is a Colombian judoka, three times World Champion in her division.
Instituto Nacional Mejía is a public secondary educational institution of Quito. It was founded on June 1, 1897 by Eloy Alfaro Delgado, then president of Ecuador.
Ángela Maritza Bonilla Zapata is an Ecuadorian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Earth Ecuador 2015. She also won Miss Global 2016 representing Ecuador.
Gabriela Alemán is an Ecuadorian writer whose work has been translated into multiple languages.
Ecuador made its winter games debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. The only competitor was cross-country skier Klaus Jungbluth Rodriguez, who was also the country's flag bearer during the opening ceremony.
Klaus Jungbluth Rodríguez is a cross-country skier from Ecuador.
Siomara España Muñoz is an Ecuadorian poet, essayist, professor and literary critic. She is director of the area of Literature of the House of Culture Núcleo del Guayas.
María Piedad Castillo de Levi was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, and journalist. She is also recognized as an important feminist who fought for women's suffrage in Ecuador, for which she was targeted by the authorities.
María Fernanda Ampuero is an Ecuadorian feminist writer and journalist.
Maria de Lourdes Alcívar Crespo is an Ecuadorian socialite. She has been the First Lady of Ecuador since 24 May 2021 as the wife of President Guillermo Lasso. She was seen as a "key female figure" of the Creating Opportunities party.
Carmen Angulo is an Ecuadorian actress.
Claudia Elena Schiess Fretz is an Ecuadorian beauty queen crowned Miss Ecuador 2011 and represented her country in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. On October 22, 2011, she won Miss American Continent 2011; becoming the first Ecuadorian to achieve this title.
