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Can you locate all 33 departments of Colombia?
Can you place all 512 departments of Argentina, and the partidos of Buenos Aires Province?
Can you place all 221 cantons of Ecuador?
Can you locate all 26 regions of Peru?
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Ecuador is a small country with three very different strips in it: the Pacific coast, the high Andes and the edge of the Amazon basin. The province is the unit that settles a round there, because it tells you which of the three you are in before it tells you anything else, and Galápagos is the part of the country that a map of the mainland leaves out.
The provinces (provincias) of Ecuador. The two newest, Santa Elena and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, were split from Guayas and Pichincha in 2007, so older maps and older guidebooks show 22.
Galápagos is not where it is on the map. It lies about a thousand kilometres out in the Pacific, so it is drawn in the sea south west of the mainland, behind a dashed rule, at its true size and with its true shape. The answer is anywhere on the islands.
The groups are the four natural regions Ecuadorians teach their own geography in. The Costa is the Pacific lowland, the Sierra is the two ranges of the Andes and the valley between them, the Amazon is the forest east of the mountains, and Galápagos is the fourth region on its own. The provinces are the Ecuador Cantons grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Galápagos is the archipelago a thousand kilometres west of the coast. The game draws it south west of the mainland, behind the dashed rule, and it is the only province in its group.
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas is a small province on the western slope of the Andes, between Pichincha and the coast. It is easy to lose between its neighbours, so find the capital's province first and look west.
Pastaza is the largest of the Amazon provinces, in the middle of the eastern strip. Its neighbours to the north are Napo and Orellana, and to the south Morona Santiago.
24. Santa Elena and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas were created in 2007, which took the country from 22 to 24.
Yes. The archipelago is a province of Ecuador, and the only one made of islands.
The Costa on the Pacific, the Sierra in the Andes, the Amazon (called the Oriente) to the east, and the Galápagos Islands. The game uses them as its groups.
The tier below this one is Ecuador Cantons. For another country in the same region, see Chile Regions.
