Nuevo Rocafuerte | |
---|---|
Town | |
Country | Ecuador |
Province | Orellana |
Canton | Aguarico Canton |
Area | |
• Town | 1.67 km2 (0.64 sq mi) |
Population (2022 census) [1] | |
• Town | 657 |
• Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
Nuevo Rocafuerte is a town in Ecuador. The capital of Aguarico Canton in Orellana Province, it was founded in 1942 as a result of a battle which displaced the inhabitants of the original settlement and subsequent border agreements which made this location a key border spot on the border with Peru.
It is the birthplace of 46th Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno. [2]
Nuevo Rocafuerte has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.
Climate data for Nuevo Rocafuerte | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.3 (88.3) | 30.9 (87.6) | 30.6 (87.1) | 30.0 (86.0) | 29.7 (85.5) | 28.9 (84.0) | 28.5 (83.3) | 30.0 (86.0) | 30.8 (87.4) | 30.8 (87.4) | 31.0 (87.8) | 31.0 (87.8) | 30.3 (86.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 26.3 (79.3) | 25.9 (78.6) | 25.9 (78.6) | 25.6 (78.1) | 25.4 (77.7) | 24.6 (76.3) | 24.2 (75.6) | 25.0 (77.0) | 25.5 (77.9) | 25.9 (78.6) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.1 (79.0) | 25.6 (78.0) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 21.4 (70.5) | 21.0 (69.8) | 21.3 (70.3) | 21.2 (70.2) | 21.2 (70.2) | 20.4 (68.7) | 19.9 (67.8) | 20.0 (68.0) | 20.2 (68.4) | 21.0 (69.8) | 21.5 (70.7) | 21.3 (70.3) | 20.9 (69.6) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 152 (6.0) | 167 (6.6) | 217 (8.5) | 267 (10.5) | 329 (13.0) | 308 (12.1) | 280 (11.0) | 222 (8.7) | 229 (9.0) | 223 (8.8) | 193 (7.6) | 152 (6.0) | 2,739 (107.8) |
Source: Climate-Data.org [3] |
Nació allí porque sus padres -profesores- decidieron trabajar en Nuevo Rocafuerte, que aún hoy no tiene conexión por carretera. Un error en la inscripción en el Registro Civil hizo que su segundo nombre fuera Boltaire, en vez de Voltaire. "Papá era de ideas socialistas y mamá de ideas liberales. A ellos les gustaba mucho leer; a papá, Lenín; y a mamá, Voltaire", explicó.
This article describes the diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and international relations of Ecuador
Lenín Boltaire Moreno Garcés is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the 46th president of Ecuador, from 2017 to 2021. Moreno was vice president from 2007 to 2013, serving under President Rafael Correa.
Mexico uses four time zones:
The Revolutionary and Democratic Ethical Green Movement (MOVER, Spanish: Movimiento Verde Ético Revolucionario y Democrático) is a centre to centre-right neoliberal and environmentalist political party in Ecuador. In 2016, it had 979,691 members. Until 2021 it was known as the PAIS Alliance (Proud and Sovereign Homeland) (PAIS, Spanish: Alianza PAIS (Patria Altiva i Soberana)).
Bonny Cepeda is a merengue artist, band leader and producer. In 1986 he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Top Tropical Latin Performance for his album, Noche de Discotheque.
Aguarico Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Orellana Province. Its capital is the town of Nuevo Rocafuerte. Its population at the 2010 census was 4,658 INEC 2010.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta was an Ecuadorian writer, director, painter, and diplomat. He was a member of the Guayaquil Group of the 1930s, who used social realism in their writings. He used magical realism in his masterpiece Siete lunas y siete serpientes (1970), which was translated into English as Seven Serpents and Seven Moons by Gregory Rabassa in 1979.
The Brasilia Presidential Act, also known as the Fujimori–Mahuad Treaty, is an international treaty signed in Brasilia by the then President of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad and then President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, which effectively put an end to the Ecuadorian–Peruvian territorial dispute.
María Alejandra Vicuña Muñoz is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the Vice President of Ecuador under President Lenin Moreno between January and December 2018, previously as the Housing and Urban Development Minister of Ecuador.
Teresa Josefa Jado y Urbina was the First Lady of Ecuador from 1852 to 1856 as the wife of President José María Urbina.
The Citizen Revolution Movement is a democratic socialist political party in Ecuador formed by supporters of former President Rafael Correa who distanced themselves from Correa's former PAIS Alliance party during the presidency of Lenín Moreno. The party takes its name from the term used to refer to the project of building a new society.
The National Order of Merit is a civil order granted by the President of Ecuador. The Order, which is the second highest among the decorations of Ecuador, was established on October 8, 1921, and promulgated in Registro Oficial No. 337 on October 27, 1921. It was later modified by Decree No. 37 on June 28, 1937, and by Decree No. 3109 on September 26, 2002.
Michael J. Fitzpatrick is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Ecuador from 2019 to 2024.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020, when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus. Ecuador was described in April as emerging as a possible "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America, with the city of Guayaquil overwhelmed to the point where bodies were being left in the street.
Events in the year 2021 in Ecuador.
Catalina Andramuño Zeballos is an Ecuadorian doctor and magister in health who served under the government of Lenín Moreno as Minister of Public Health of Ecuador between 3 July 2019 until 21 March 2020, after which she resigned in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Ecuadorian Drug War is an internal conflict in Ecuador waged by the Ecuadorian security forces against criminal groups since the beginning of 2018. The conflict is divided into two parts, the first is the Ecuadorian government against satellite groups of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel, and the second is the confrontation between said satellite groups for dominance and hegemony.
The attacks on the northern border of Ecuador in 2018 were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in the towns of San Lorenzo, Mataje and Viche in the Esmeraldas Province, Northern Ecuador. The attacks began on January 7, 2018, outside the facilities of the San Lorenzo National Police district where, in the early morning hours, a car bomb exploded leaving 28 people injured, as well as severe damage to the infrastructure of the police precinct and 37 homes in the vicinity. In preliminary investigations, Ecuadorian authorities linked this incident to criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking and the illegal drug trade.