Continental shelf: claims continental shelf between
mainland and Galapagos Islands
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Territorial sea: 200 nm
Main Cities:
Quito - Capital (population 1.4 million) Guayaquil (2.0 million) Cuenca (0.41 million 2001) Ambato (0.28 million 2001) Portoviejo (0.23 million 2001) Machala (0.21 million 2001)
Terrain:
Ecuador is commonly divided into four
regions, which are both geographically
and culturally
distinctive.
Regions Galapagos Islands
An island archipelago in the Pacific Ocean
about 1,000 km west of the mainland; famed for the studies by
Charles Darwin that led to his theory of natural selection as
a means of evolution