Happy new Year for the Ecuadorian community

Where's Ecuador? Not on new school map...

Where's Ecuador? ...

Better not ask that question in Brazil. A new Brazilian geography text book for sixth-grade students doesn't even include the South American country on the map.

A Brazilian publishing company charged with printing 500,000 text books for six-graders decided that a country also known as The Banana Republic could not possibly be taken serious for a Geography lesson. So, according to press reports, the books distributed by the Vanzolini Foundation didn’t even include Ecuador on their map of South America.

In fact, the book distributed by the education ministry in Brazil's most populous state botches the location of most of Brazil's neighbors. Paraguay is switched with Uruguay, and a second "new" Paraguay is shown with a coastline at the southern tip of Brazil.

That is something that even Paraguay's military generals could not accomplish during their 1864-1870 war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay – in which historians say landlocked Paraguay dreamed of capturing a slice of Brazil's coastline.

Bolivia is fortunate enough to appear on the map, but the book misses its border with Paraguay – the Paraguay that sits where Uruguay should be, that is.

Ecuador like if it was on purpose just vanished from the map ...Just the way the south americans map should be drawn.

Because of the ambiguity and elusiveness of Ecuador's borders, there is a certain irony in the name given to the country in 1830. The equator (for which Ecuador is ,of course,named)is not a real line bifurcating the globe but only an imagined one -much like the country of Ecuador itself.

We can call Ecuador a symbolic 'imagined community” ,because it is a nation struggling to imbue itself with a distinct national identity in the face of countless obstacles.

Ecuador should be called "Republic of Mestizos reserve in south America"

Ecuadorians planning to relocate to USA.

Most Ecuadorians consider New York Andean nation's third-largest city...

Ask any Ecuadorian to name his country's third-largest city and you may get a response that sounds a bit off, geographically speaking. After the bustling port of Guayaquil and the capital of Quito comes "Nueva York," at least according to popular opinion .