Ecuador,officially the Republic of Ecuador,is a country in northwestern South America,bordered by Colombia on the north,Peru on the east and south,and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific,about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland. The country's capital is Quito,but its largest city is Guayaquil.
Quito,officially San Francisco de Quito,is the capital of Ecuador,with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha,an active stratovolcano in the Andes.
Sebastián Moyano y Cabrera, best known as Sebastián de Belalcázar was a Spanish conquistador. Belalcázar,also written as Benalcázar,is known as the founder of important early colonial cities in the northwestern part of South America;Quito in 1534 and Cali,Pasto and Popayán in 1537. Belalcázar led expeditions in present-day Ecuador and Colombia and died of natural causes after being sentenced to death in Cartagena de Indias,Colombia in 1551.
Liga Deportiva Universitaria,often referred to as LDU Quito,is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Quito. They play in the Serie A,the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. They play their home games at the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado,more commonly referred to as Casa Blanca. Rival clubs include Quito-based clubs El Nacional,Deportivo Quito,Aucas and Universidad Católica.
JoséSalvador Omar Jorge Blanco was a politician,lawyer and a writer. He was President of the Dominican Republic,from 1982 to 1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party. He started his political career as a Committee Secretary for the Unión Cívica de Santiago in 1963 and joined the PRD in 1964.
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco —born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco —was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist,essayist,journalist,historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel,he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil,which brought a new emphasis to realistic novels.
Jorge Jesús Rodríguez Gómez is a Venezuelan politician and psychiatrist serving as President of the National Assembly of Venezuela since 2021. He previously served as the vice president of Venezuela from 2007 to 2008 and as Mayor of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality from 2009 to 2017. He is the brother of Delcy Rodríguez,the current vice president.
The Mayor of Pichilemu is an elected politician who is the head of the executive branch of government of the commune of Pichilemu,Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region,Chile. The mayor presides over the local city council,composed of six members,and serves as the civic representative of the commune. The mayor is popularly elected in a municipal election,by simple majority. The office is held for a four-year term without term limits.
Jorge Luis Sampaoli Moya is an Argentine football coach who was most recently the head coach of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo. Sampaoli started out as a youth player and eventually switched to management after a severe injury.
The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito,Ecuador.
Claudia Alejandra Ledesma Abdala de Zamora is an Argentine politician,currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero Province and as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate since 2019. A member of the local Civic Front for Santiago,Ledesma Abdala was governor of Santiago del Estero from 2013 to 2017,succeeding and preceding her husband,Gerardo Zamora.
Juana Guarderas Albuja is an Ecuadorian theatre,cinema,and television actress. She has been the director of the Quito Comedy Club since 1990.
Jhojan Esmaides Julio Palacios is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for L.D.U. Quito. Mainly an attacking midfielder,he can also play as a winger.
Jorge Horacio Ferraresi is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and engineer who currently serves as intendente (mayor) of Avellaneda,a partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. He served uninterruptedly from 2009 to 2020,when he was appointed as Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández,and later resumed the position in 2022.
Martha Ormaza Bermeo was an Ecuadorian actress,writer,and director,a member of the theatrical group Las Marujitas.
Víctor Alfonso Sepúlveda Torres was a Chilean professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Jorge Homero Yunda Machado is an Ecuadorian politician,physician,musician and radio broadcaster. He is a member of the PAIS Alliance. Metropolitan Mayor of Quito from 2019 until 2021. From 2017 until 2018,he served as a member of the National Assembly.
María Soledad Diab Aguilar is an Ecuadorian model,television presenter,and politician of the Social Christian Party (PSC).
Snap general elections were held in Ecuador on 20 August 2023 to vote for President of Ecuador,members of the National Assembly and two referendums. Elections followed the invocation of muerte cruzada,which dissolved the National Assembly on 17 May 2023. A run-off election was held on 15 October 2023 to elect the President after candidates were unable to reach the threshold needed to win in the first round. Incumbent president Guillermo Lasso was eligible for a second term,but he announced on 18 May that he would not stand for re-election in response to his impeachment.
Janeth Paola Cabezas Castillo is an Ecuadorian politician and former television presenter. She was the Governor of Esmeraldas Province from 2013 to 2016 and is a current member of Ecuador's National Assembly for the Citizen Revolution Movement (RC). Cabezas was elected leader of the largest political coalition in the 2021 National Assembly,the Union for Hope (UNES).
