As summarised in “Ecuador country profile” (updated August 2012), Ecuador is comprised of a multi-cultural series of communities, including peoples whose origins are Spanish, as well as people descended from slaves imported from Africa. This paper provides a range of information about this South American country, which is bordered by Colombia to the North, Peru to the South and East, and has a Pacific coastline to the West.
History and Culture
Originally populated by mixture of groups each with their own cultures, Ecuador became dominated by the Aztecs around 1450 AD (Ecuador History & Culture, 2010). Then in 1526 the first Spanish invaders came ashore ...