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Capital City
Quito
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Regional Relationships
organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia penetrate across Ecuador's shared border, which thousands of Colombians also cross to escape the violence in their home country
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Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements
Challenges
Deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands
International Agreements
Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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Humanitarian Projects
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Native Languages
Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua)
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Climate
Tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands