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Ecuador is a small country with 256,370sq. About the size of Colorado or Italy. But what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in geographic variety. There are four regions in Ecuador

THE SIERRA OR INTERANDEAN REGION (Highlands).-The dorsal column of the continental Ecuador constitutes the Andes and they form one of the more gigantic mountainous systems corresponding to the tertiary period. The two chains of the Andes (Western and Oriental) they differ considerably in altitude, width and still in their geologic constitution. The Westerner in her the Chimborazo rises the maximum Ecuadorian elevation, the fluvial erosion, because the almost entirety of the drainage of the region interandean pours toward the Pacific. In both mountain ranges during the glacial periods, the mantel of snow descended until inferior altitudes at the 3,000m.

 
     
 
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