|
|
Ecuador is located in South America, and
it owes its name to the equinoctial line that crosses
it; it's territorial limits are: to the north Colombia,
to the south, Peru and to the west it extends in
two hundred miles of territorial sea to the Pacific
Ocean
It has a surface of 276.840 km2 and a population
of 12,4 million habitants. Ecuador possesses a democratic
government whose leaders exercise the power in a
4 year period.
Ecuador
in Numbers
| Area: |
276,840 km2 |
| Population:
|
12,4
millions |
| PIB
2000: |
US$ 13.9 BN |
| Currency: |
American Dollars (since 2001) |
| Inflation
2000: |
91% |
| 2001
E: |
26 % |
| 2002
E: |
6% |
| Exportations
2000: |
US$
4.9 BN |
|
|
El Oro Province, with its capital Machala,
is located south of the coast of Ecuador, and its coordenates
are:
| Latitude: |
9'570.500
N - 9'661.000 S |
| Longitude: |
576.000
E - 682.000 W |
The economy of the region is based in the agricultural
sector, especially in bananas production; shrimp production
has also constituted itself as an important factor of
production in the province, as well as the mining of gold.
Tourism and industry have good perspectives towards the
future.
|
Administratively its conformed by 14 counties, (Machala,
El Guabo, Huaquillas, Pasaje, Santa Rosa, Piñas,
Arenillas, Zaruma, Atahualpa, Portovelo, Marcabelí,
Balsas, Chilla y Las Lajas) and 41 towns, the capital
of the province is the city of Machala, known as
"The Word's Capital of Bananas", because its
one of its principal products of production and
exportation. |
|
|
|
|
El Oro is one of the richest provinces of the country.
During the first half of the century, one of the
biggest mine businesses settled in Portovelo; the
northamerican Sadco. In the decade of 1950, wealth
extended it's green coat, bananas, which led Ecuador
to become the first world exporter of this fruit.
Towards the beginning of the decade of 1970, an
unexplored industry began, the cultivation of shrimp,
which along with bananas, overcame petroleum in the
generation of income for the country. Its land is
fierce and its products, cocoa, coffee, bananas are
exceptional because of their aroma and flavor.
Its capital, Machala, a lonely village with only
7549 neighbors, now with 250 thousand habitants,
soon became one of the largest growing cities in
the country.
|
|
|
