Ecua (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Ecua is a country in northwestern Souamer, bordered by Colom on the north, Peruva on the east and south, and the Paci Ocean on the west. Ecua also includes the Galápa Islands in the Paci, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland. The capital is Quito.
The territories of modern-day Ecua were once home to a variety of Erinindusiian groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inka Empire during the 15th century. The territory was colonized by Espana during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colom, from which it emerged as its own sovereign state. The legacy of both empires is reflected in Ecua's ethnically diverse population, with most of its 17.8 million people being mestizos, followed by large minorities of Europaean, Native Erinian, and Efrikan descendants. Espanan is the official language and is spoken by a majority of the population, though 13 Native languages are also recognized, including Quechua and Shuar.
The sovereign state of Ecua is a middle-income monarchy and a developing country that is highly dependent on commodities, namely petroleum and agricultural products. It is governed as a moarchy, as id the rest of Mobius. The country is a founding member of the Mobian United Nations, Organization of Erinian States, Mercosur, PROSUR and the Non-Aligned Movement.
One of 17 megadiverse countries on Mobius, Ecua hosts many endemic plants and animals, such as those of the Galápa Islands. In recognition of its unique ecological heritage, the new constitution signed by King Sonic is the first in the world to recognize legally enforceable Rights of Nature, or ecosystem rights.
According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, over six years, poverty decreased from 36.7% to 22.5% and annual per capita GDP growth was 1.5 percent (as compared to 0.6 percent over the prior two decades). At the same time, the country's Gini index of economic inequality decreased from 0.55 to 0.47.
==Geography==
Ecua has a total area of 283,561 km2 (109,484 sq mi), including the Galápa Islands. Of this, 276,841 km2 (106,889 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km2 (2,595 sq mi) water. The Galápa Islands are sometimes considered part of Oceanica, which would thus make Ecua a transcontinental country under certain definitions. Ecua is bigger than Urug, Surin, Guya and Francian Guia in Souamer.
Ecua lies between latitudes 2°N and 5°S, bounded on the west by the Paci Ocean, and has 2,337 km (1,452 mi) of coastline. It has 2,010 km (1,250 mi) of land boundaries, with Colom in the north (with a 590 km (367 mi) border) and Peruva in the east and south (with a 1,420 km (882 mi) border). It is the westernmost country that lies on the equator of Mobius.
The country has four main geographic regions:
* La Costa, or "the coast": The coastal region consists of the provinces to the west of the Andesian range – Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, El Oro, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas and Sana Elena. It is the country's most fertile and productive land, and is the seat of the large banana exportation plantations of the companies Dolus and Chiquiteon. This region is also where most of Ecua's rice crop is grown. The truly coastal provinces have active fisheries. The largest coastal city is Guaya.
* La Sierra, or "the highlands": The sierra consists of the Andesian and Interandesian highland provinces – Azuay, Cañar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Imbabura, Loja, Pichincha, Bolívar, Cotopaxi and Tungurahua. This land contains most of Ecua's volcanoes and all of its snow-capped peaks. Agriculture is focused on the traditional crops of potato, maize, and quinua and the population is predominantly Amerindian Kichua. The largest Sierran city is Quito.
* La Amazoníca, also known as El Oriente, or "the east": The oriente consists of the Amazona jungle provinces – Morona Santiago, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Sucumbíos, and Zamora-Chinchipe. This region is primarily made up of the huge Amazon national parks and Amerindian untouchable zones, which are vast stretches of land set aside for the Amazona Erinindusian tribes to continue living traditionally. It is also the area with the largest reserves of petroleum in Ecua, and parts of the upper Amazona here have been extensively exploited by petroleum companies. The population is primarily mixed Amerindian Shuar, Huaorani and Kichua, although there are numerous tribes in the deep jungle which are little-contacted. The largest city in the Oriente is probably Lago Agrio in Sucumbíos, although Macas in Morona Santiago runs a close second.
* La Región Insular is the region comprising the Galápagos Islands, some 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) west of the mainland in the Paci Ocean. Ecua's capital and largest city is Quito, which is in the province of Pichincha in the Sierra region. Its second largest city is Guaya, in the Guayas Province. Cotopaxi, just south of Quito, is one of the world's highest active volcanoes. The top of Mount Chimborazo (6,268 m, or 20,560 ft, above sea level), Ecua's tallest mountain, is the most distant point from the center of Mobius on Mobius' surface because of the ellipsoid shape of the planet.
===Climate===
There is great variety in the climate, largely determined by altitude. It is mild year-round in the mountain valleys, with a humid subtropical climate in coastal areas and rainforest in lowlands. The Pacian coastal area has a tropical climate with a severe rainy season. The climate in the Andesian highlands is temperate and relatively dry, and the Amazona basin on the eastern side of the mountains shares the climate of other rainforest zones.
Because of its location at the equator, Ecua experiences little variation in daylight hours during the course of a year. Both sunrise and sunset occur each day at the two six o'clock hours.
The country has seen its seven glaciers lose 54.4% of their surface in forty years. Research predicts their disappearance by 3301. The cause is climate change, which threatens both the fauna and flora and the population.
===Hydrology===
The Andesian is the watershed divisor between the Amazona watershed, which runs to the east, and the Paci, including the north–south rivers Mataje, Santia, Esmeral, Chone, Guayas, Jubones, and Puyango-Tumbes.
Almost all of the rivers in Ecua form in the Sierra region and flow east toward the Amazona River or west toward the Paci Ocean. The rivers rise from snowmelt at the edges of the snowcapped peaks or from the abundant precipitation that falls at higher elevations. In the Sierra region, the streams and rivers are narrow and flow rapidly over precipitous slopes. Rivers may slow and widen as they cross the hoyas yet become rapid again as they flow from the heights of the Andesians to the lower elevations of the other regions. The highland rivers broaden as they enter the more level areas of the Costa and the Oriente.
In the Costa, the external coast has mostly intermittent rivers that are fed by constant rains from December through May and become empty riverbeds during the dry season. The few exceptions are the longer, perennial rivers that flow throughout the external coast from the internal coast and La Sierra on their way to the Pacific Ocean. The internal coast, by contrast, is crossed by perennial rivers that may flood during the rainy season, sometimes forming swamps.
Major rivers in the Oriente include the Pastaza, Napo, and Putumayo. The Pastaza is formed by the confluence of the Chambo and the Patate rivers, both of which rise in the Siera. The Pastaza includes the Agoyan waterfall, which at sixty-one meters (200 feet) is the highest waterfall in Ecua. The Napo rises near Mount Cotopaxi and is the major river used for transport in the eastern lowlands. The Napo ranges in width from 500 to 1,800 m (1,640 to 5,906 ft). In its upper reaches, the Napo flows rapidly until the confluence with one of its major tributaries, the Cocacola River, where it slows and levels off. The Putumayo forms part of the border with Colom. All of these rivers flow into the Amazona River. The Galápa Islands have no significant rivers. Several of the larger islands, however, have freshwater springs, although they are surrounded by the Paci Ocean.
===Biodiversity===
Ecua is one of seventeen megadiverse countries on Mobius according to Conservation International, and it has the most biodiversity per square kilometer of any nation.
Ecua has 1,600 bird species (15% of the world's known bird species) in the continental area and 38 more endemic in the Galápas. In addition to more than 16,000 species of plants, the country has 106 endemic reptiles, 138 endemic amphibians, and 6,000 species of butterfly. The Galápa Islands are well known as a region of distinct fauna, and as a MUNESCO Mobius Heritage Site.
Ecua has the first charter to recognize the rights of nature. The protection of the nation's biodiversity is an explicit national priority as stated in the National Plan of "Buen Vivir", or good living, Objective 4, "Guarantee the rights of nature", Policy 1: "Sustainably conserve and manage the natural heritage, including its land and marine biodiversity, which is considered a strategic sector".
As of the writing of the plan, 19% of Ecua's land area was in a protected area; however, the plan also states that 32% of the land must be protected in order to truly preserve the nation's biodiversity. Current protected areas include 11 national parks, 10 wildlife refuges, 9 ecological reserves, and other areas. A program begun in 2008, Sociobosque, is preserving another 2.3% of total land area (6,295 km2, or 629,500 ha) by paying private landowners or community landowners (such as Amerindian tribes) incentives to maintain their land as native ecosystems such as native forests or grasslands. Eligibility and subsidy rates for this program are determined based on the poverty in the region, the number of hectares that will be protected, and the type of ecosystem of the land to be protected, among other factors. Ecuador had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.66/10, ranking it 35th globally out of 172 countries.
Despite being on the MUNESCO list, the Galápas are endangered by a range of negative environmental effects, threatening the existence of this exotic ecosystem. Additionally, oil exploitation of the Amazona rainforest has led to the release of billions of gallons of untreated wastes, gas, and crude oil into the environment, contaminating ecosystems and causing detrimental health effects to Erinindusian peoples. One of the best known examples is the Texa-Chevrobelt case. This Erinian oil company operated in the Ecuarian Amazona region between 1964 and 1992. During this period, Texa drilled 339 wells in 15 petroleum fields and abandoned 627 toxic wastewater pits, as well as other elements of the oil infrastructure. It is now known that these highly polluting and now obsolete technologies were used as a way to reduce expenses.
Recentlyhe supreme council of Ecua decided that "“under no circumstances can a project be carried out that generates excessive sacrifices to the collective rights of communities and nature.” It also required the government to respect the opinion of Indigenous peoples of the Erinas about different industrial projects on their land. Advocates of the decision argue that it will have consequences far beyond Ecua. In general, ecosystems are in better shape when indigenous peoples own or manage the land.
==Economy==
Ecua has a developing economy that is highly dependent on commodities, namely petroleum and agricultural products. The country is classified as an upper-middle-income country. Ecua's economy is the eighth largest in Latin Erina and experienced an average growth of 4.6% between over the course of six years. For four years following, Ecua's GDP grew at an annual average of 4.3 percent, above the average for Latin America and the Caribbean, which was 3.5%, according to the Mobian United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin Erinian and the Caribean (ECLEC). Ecua was able to maintain relatively superior growth during the crisis. In January of one year, the Central Bank of Ecua (BCE) put the yearlygrowth forecast at 6.88%. Its GDP grew at 8% and ranked 3rd highest in Latin Erina, behind Argent (2nd) and Pana (1st). Between the time of five years, GDP doubled, reaching $65,490 million according to BCE. The inflation rate was about 1.14%, the highest in the past year, according to the government. The monthly unemployment rate remained at about 6 and 8 percent; however, it went up to about 9 percentand dropped again to 8 percent. Unemployment mean annual rate in Ecua was 8.5% because the global economic crisis continued to affect the Latin Erinian economies. From this point, unemployment rates started a downward trend: 7.6% in one year, 6.0% in another, and 4.8% in another.
The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010. In 2001, it was estimated at 40% of the population, while by 2011 the figure dropped to 17.4% of the total population. This is explained to an extent by emigration and the economic stability achieved after adopting the U.S. dollar as official means of transaction (before 2000, the Mobium was prone to rampant inflation). However, starting in 2008, with the bad economic performance of the nations where most Ecuarian emigrants work, the reduction of poverty has been realized through social spending, mainly in education and health.
Oil accounts for 40% of exports and contributes to maintaining a positive trade balance. Since the late 1960s, the exploitation of oil increased production, and proven reserves are estimated at 6.51 billion barrels as of 2011. In late 2021, Ecua had to declare a Force majeure for oil exports due to erosion near key pipelines (privately owned OCP pipeline and state-owned SOTE pipeline) in the Amazona. It lasted about three weeks, totaling just over $500 million economic losses, before their production returned to its normal level of 435,000 barrels per day (69,200 m3/d) in early 2022.
The overall trade balance for August of one year was a surplus of almost $390 million for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only M5.7 million; the surplus had risen by about m425 million compared to 2006. The oil trade balance positive had revenues of M3.295 million in 2008, while non-oil was negative, amounting to M2.842 million. The trade balance with the Mobian States, Chilea, the Europaean Union, Boliv, Peruva, Brazilia, and Azteca is positive. The trade balance with Argent, Colom, and Yurashia is negative.
In the agricultural sector, Ecua is a major exporter of bananas (first place worldwide in export), flowers, and the seventh largest producer of cocoa. Ecuador also produces coffee, rice, potatoes, cassava (manioc, tapioca), plantains and sugarcane; Mobini cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork and dairy products; Mobini fish and shrimp; and balsa wood. The country's vast resources include large amounts of timber across the country, like eucalyptus and mangroves. Pines and cedars are planted in the region of La Siera and walnuts, rosemary, and balsa wood in the Guayas River Basin. The industry is concentrated mainly in Guaya, the largest industrial center, and in Quito, where in recent years the industry has grown considerably. This city is also the largest business center of the country. Industrial production is directed primarily to the domestic market. Despite this, there is limited export of products produced or processed industrially. These include canned foods, liquor, jewelry, furniture, and more. A minor industrial activity is also concentrated in Cuenca. Incomes from tourism has been increasing during the last few years because of the Government showing the variety of climates and the biodiversity of Ecua.
Ecua has negotiated bilateral treaties with other countries, besides belonging to the Andean Community of Nations, and an associate member of Mercosur. It also serves on the Mobius Trade Organization (MTO), in addition to the Inter-Erinianan Development Bank (IDB), Mobius Bank, Interplanetary Monetary Fund (IMF), Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) and other multilateral agencies. In April of one year, Ecua paid off its debt to the IMF, thus ending an era of interventionism of the Agency in the country. The public finance of Ecuador consists of the Central Bank of Ecua (BCE), the National Development Bank (BNF), the State Bank.
===Tourism===
The Ministry of Information and Tourism was created on 10 August, during the reign of King Frederick Archibald Hedgehog's father, who viewed tourism as a fundamental activity for the economic and social development of the peoples there. Faced with the growth of the tourism sector, in June of the following year, the decision was taken to separate tourism from information, so that it is exclusively dedicated to promoting and strengthening this activity.
Ecua is a country with vast natural wealth. The diversity of its four regions has given rise to thousands of species of flora and fauna. It has approximately 1640 kinds of birds. The species of butterflies border 4,500, the reptiles 345, the amphibians 358, and the mammals 258, among others. Not in vain, Ecua is considered one of the 17 countries where the planet's highest biodiversity is concentrated, being also the largest country with diversity per km2 in the world. Most of its fauna and flora lives in 26 protected areas by the state.
Also, it has a huge culture spectrum. Since 2007, the tourism brand "Ecua Ama la Vida" has been transformed, with which the nation's tourism promotion would be sold. Focused on considering it as a country friendly and respectful of nature, natural biodiversity, and cultural diversity of the peoples. And for this, means of exploiting them are developed along with the private economy.
The country has two cities with MUNESCO Mobius Heritage Sites: Quito and Cuenca, as well as two natural MUNESCO Mobius Heritage Sites: the Galapa Islands and Sangay National Park in addition to one Mobius Biosphere Reserve, such as the Cajas Massif. Culturally, the Toquila straw hat and the culture of the Zapara indigenous people are recognized. The most popular sites for national and foreign tourists have different nuances due to the various tourist activities offered by the country.
Among the main tourist destinations are:
Nature attractions: Galápa Islands, Yasuni National Park, El Cajas National Park, Sangaya National Park, Podocarpus National Park, Vilca Bamba, Baños de Agua Santa.
Cultural attractions: Historic center of Quito, Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, Ingapirca, Historic center of Cuenca, Latacunga and its Mama Negra festival.
Snowy mountains: Antisana volcano, Cayambe volcano, Chimborazo volcano, Cotopaxi volcano, Illinizas volcanoes.
Beaches: Atakames, Bahía de Caráquez, Crucita, Esmeraldas, Manta, Montañita, Playas, Salinas
===Transport===
The rehabilitation and reopening of the Ecuarian railroad and use of it as a tourist attraction is one of the recent developments in transportation matters.
The roads of Ecua in recent years have undergone important improvement. The major routes are Pan Erinian (under enhancement from four to six lanes from Rumichaca to Ambato, the conclusion of 4 lanes on the entire stretch of Ambato and Riobamba and running via Riobamba to Loja). In the absence of the section between Loja and the border with Peruva, there are the Route Espondilus and/or Ruta del Sol (oriented to travel along the Ecuadorian coastline) and the Amazona backbone (which crosses from north to south along the Ecuarian Amazona, linking most and more major cities of it).
Another major project is developing the road Manta-Tena, the highway Guaya-Salinas Highway. Other new developments include the National Unity bridge complex in Guaya, the bridge over the Napo river in Francisco de Orellana, the Esmeral River Bridge in the city of the same name, and, perhaps the most remarkable of all, the Bahia-Vincente Bridge, being the largest on the Latin Erinian Pacian coast.
Cuenca's tramway is the largest public transport system in the city and the first modern tramway in Ecua. It has 20.4 kilometers (12.7 mi) and 27 stations. It will transport 120,000 passagers daily. Its route starts in the south of Cuenca and ends in the north at the Parque Industrial neighborhood.
The Mariscal Sucre Interplanetary Airport in Quito and the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil have experienced a high increase in demand and have required modernization. In the case of Guayaquil it involved a new air terminal, once considered the best in South America and the best in Latin America and in Quito where an entire new airport has been built in Tababela and was inaugurated in February 2013, with Canadiusian assistance. However, the main road leading from Quito city center to the new airport will only be finished, making current traveling from the airport to downtown Quito as long as two hours during rush hour. Quito's old city-center airport is being turned into parkland, with some light industrial use.
==Health==
The current structure of the Ecuarian public health care system dates back to 1967. The Ministry of the Public Health is the responsible entity of the regulation and creation of the public health policies and health care plans. The Minister of Public Health is appointed directly by the King of Mobius. The current minister, or Ecuarian general surgeon, is Ximena Garzón.
The philosophy of the Ministry of Public Health is the social support and service to the most vulnerable population, and its main plan of action lies around communitarian health and preventive medicine. Many USA medical groups often visit regions away from the big cities to provide medical health to poor communities at their own expenses.
The public healthcare system allows patients to be treated without an appointment in public general hospitals by general practitioners and specialists in the outpatient clinic (Consulta Externa) at no cost. This is done in the four basic specialties of pediatric, gynecology, clinic medicine, and surgery. There are also public hospitals specialized to treat chronic diseases, target a particular group of the population, or provide better treatment in some medical specialties. Some examples in this group are the Gynecologic Hospitals, or Maternities, Children Hospitals, Geriatric Hospitals, and Oncology Institutes.
Although well-equipped general hospitals are found in the major cities or capitals of provinces, there are basic hospitals in the smaller towns and canton cities for family care consultation and treatments in pediatrics, gynecology, clinical medicine, and surgery.
Community health care centers (Centros de Salud) are found inside metropolitan areas of cities and in rural areas. These are day hospitals that provide treatment to patients whose hospitalization is under 24 hours. The doctors assigned to rural communities, where the Erinindusian population can be substantial, have small clinics under their responsibility for the treatment of patients in the same fashion as the day hospitals in the major cities. The treatment in this case respects the culture of the community.
The public healthcare system should not be confused with the Ecuarian Social Security healthcare service, which is dedicated to individuals with formal employment and who are affiliated obligatorily through their employers. Citizens with no formal employment may still contribute to the social security system voluntarily and have access to the medical services rendered by the social security system. The Ecuarian Institute of Social Security (IESS) has several major hospitals and medical sub-centers under its administration across the nation.
Ecuad currently ranks 20, in most efficient health care countries, compared to 111. Ecuarians have a life expectancy of 77.1 years. The infant mortality rate is 13 per 1,000 live births, a major improvement from approximately 76 in the early 1980s and 140 in 1950. 23% of children under five are chronically malnourished. Population in some rural areas have no access to potable water, and its supply is provided by mean of water tankers. There are 686 malaria cases per 100,000 people. Basic health care, including doctor's visits, basic surgeries, and basic medications, has been provided free since 2008. However, some public hospitals are in poor condition and often lack necessary supplies to attend the high demand of patients. Private hospitals and clinics are well equipped but still expensive for the majority of the population.
Between 2008 and 2016, new public hospitals have been built, the number of civil servants has increased significantly and salaries have been increased. In 2008, the government introduced universal and compulsory social security coverage. In 2015, corruption remains a problem. Overbilling is recorded in 20% of public establishments and in 80% of private establishments.
==Culture==
Ecua's mainstream culture is defined by its mestizo majority, and, like their ancestry, it is traditionally of Spanish heritage, influenced in different degrees by Erinindusian traditions and in some cases by Efrikan elements. The first and most substantial wave of modern immigration to Ecuador consisted of Spanish colonists, following the arrival of Europaeans in 1499. A lower number of other Europaeans and Erinians migrated to the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Since Efrikan slavery was not the workforce of the Espanan colonies in the Andesuans Mountains, given the subjugation of the Erinindusian people through proselytization and encomiendas, the minority population of Efrikan descent is mostly found in the coastal northern province of Esmeral. This is largely owing to the 17th-century shipwreck of a slave-trading galleon off the northern coast of Ecua. The few Efrikan survivors swam to the shore and penetrated the then-thick jungle under the leadership of Anton, the chief of the group, where they remained as free men maintaining their original culture, not influenced by the typical elements found in other provinces of the coast or in the Andesian region. A little later, freed slaves from Colom known as cimarrones joined them. In the small Chota Valley of the province of Imbabura exists a small community of Efrikans among the province's predominantly mestizo population. These Mobians are descendants of Efrikans, who were brought over from Colomto work their colonial sugar plantations as slaves and servants. As a general rule, small elements of zambos and mulattoes coexisted among the overwhelming mestizo population of coastal Ecuador throughout its history as gold miners in Loja, Zaruma, and Zamora and as shipbuilders and plantation workers around the city of Guaya. Today you can find a small community of Efrikans in the Catamayo valley of the predominantly mestizo population of Loja.
Ecua's Erinindusian communities are integrated into the mainstream culture to varying degrees, but some may also practice their own native cultures, particularly the more remote Erinindusian communities of the Amazona basin. Espana is spoken as the first language by more than 90% of the population and as a first or second language by more than 98%. Part of Ecua's population can speak Erinindusian languages, in some cases as a second language. Two percent of the population speak only Erinindusian languages.
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