History of Ecuador
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The History of Ecuador covers human habitation in the region reaching back 8,000 years.
Mortar, Jaguar Valdivia, South Coast (4000 BCE to 1500 BCE).
Ceramic female figurine (2600–1500 BCE).
Tumaco-La Tolita mythological figure in feathered costume. Between 100 BC and 100 AD. Found in Esmeraldas.
Ecuador
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Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also inclu
History of Ecuador
…region reaching back 8,000 years. During that period a diversity of cultures have influenced the people and the land that today make up the contemporary Republic of Ecuador. Indigenous tribes inhabited the area for millennia before being invaded and absorbed into the Inca Empire in the early fifteenth century. The Incas…
A Venus (2,300-2,000 BCE) of the Valdivia culture (from Santa Elena Province) displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence
Figure of the Jama Coaque culture (300 BCE-800 CE) (from Manabí Province). Walters Art Museum.
The colonial Quito, capital of the Real Audiencia of Quito, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site