Tag: Ecuador

Named after the species of water turtles that live here, the Galapagos Islands are located in the east of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, almost 1000 km west of mainland Ecuador. The archipelago of volcanic origin (by the way, very recent by geological standards) consists of 13 large islands and 6 smaller islands, and let Wikipedia […]

Yearbook 2005 Ecuador. On April 20, Congress forced President Lúcio Gutiérrez Borbúa to resign after the presidential palace was besieged and the Congress building was plundered by tens of thousands of angry demonstrating students, Indians and middle-class people. When the military declared itself to have lost confidence in him, Gutiérrez Borboua fled the palace by […]