Most of the population of Ecuador lives in the valleys and highlands of the Andes, the backbone of the country topped by a number of active volcanoes, and in the coastal lowlands. The East of the country, partly covered by pristine Amazon rainforest, is almost void of people.
Tena | Río Arajuno
Tena | Río Arajuno
Tena | Football
Tena | Banana cultivation
Tena | Cacao
Tena | Cacao fruit
Tena | Buttress
Tena | Buttress
Tena | Buttress
Tena | Tropical rainforest
Tropical soil profile
Valle del Río Papallacta | Epiphytic bromeliad
Valle del Río Papallacta | Remnant of cloud forest
Valle del Río Papallacta | Cloud forest
Paso de Papallacta | Polylepis
Paso de Papallacta | Polylepis
Paso de Papallacta | Forest patches
Paso de Papallacta | Tussock grassland
Páramo El Ángel with frailejones
Páramo El Ángel with frailejones
Páramo El Ángel with frailejones
Páramo El Ángel with frailejones
Páramo El Ángel | Inflorescence of frailejón
Páramo El Ángel with puya
Páramo El Ángel | Inflorescence of puya
Valle del Río Chota
Ibarra | Urban traffic
Otavalo | Market
Peguche | Pork
Peguche | Festival
Otavalo and Volcán Imbabura
Laguna Cuicocha
Mitad del Mundo | Tourist trap
Mitad del Mundo | Tourist trap
Guayllabamba | Tuff layer
Volcán Cayambe
Volcán Cayambe
Quito and Volcán Cayambe
Volcán Antisana
Volcán Antisana
Volcán Chimborazo
Quito with foehn clouds
Quito | Panorama
Quito | Panorama with foehn clouds
Quito with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito | Panorama with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito | Panorama with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito with Volcán Cotopaxi
Quito | Historic centre and Panecillo
Quito | Basilica del Voto Nacional
Quito | Basilica del Voto Nacional
Quito | Basilica del Voto Nacional during service
Quito | Iglesia Carmen Alto
Quito | Calle Vicente Rocafuerte
Quito | Plaza de Santo Domingo
Quito | Calle Gabriel García Moreno and El Panecillo
Quito | Calle Gabriel Moreno
Quito | Plaza de Independencia
Quito | Historic centre
Quito | Historic centre
Quito | Monumento de la Libertad
Quito | River undercutting
Quito | Hazardous place
Volcán Cotopaxi
Volcán Cotopaxi
Volcán Cotopaxi with glacier
Volcán Cotopaxi with glacier
Volcán Cotopaxi | Glacier terminus
Volcán Cotopaxi | Glacier terminus
Panamericana
Baños | Road blocked by lahar flow
Baños | Lahar hazard
Baños | Lahar flow
Baños | Lahar flow and landslide
Baños | Puente San Francisco
Baños | Painting
Baños | Patio
Baños | Cuy asado
Baños | Cuy asado
Valle del Río Pastaza
Valle del Río Pastaza
Ambato | Andean cultural landscape
Ambato | Andean cultural landscape
Ambato | Andean cultural landscape
Ambato | Children
Volcán Chimborazo
Páramo de Chimborazo | Peaty soil
Páramo de Chimborazo | Peaty soil
Páramo de Chimborazo | Sheep herding
Bolívar | Farm
Bolívar | W slopes of Andes
Bolívar | Farm
Bolívar | Coffee cultivation
Bolívar | Cultivated land
Valle del Río Jubones | Forest
Valle del Río Jubones | Drylands
Los Ríos | Farmer and scientists
Los Ríos | Rice cultivation
Guayas | Sugar cane cultivation
Trash deposit
Babahoyo | Floating houses
Babahoyo | Floating houses
Babahoyo | Floating houses
Babahoyo | Floating house
Babahoyo | Residential area
Babahoyo | Residential area
Babahoyo | Pupils
Babahoyo | Town centre
Babahoyo | Town centre
Durán | Town centre
Durán | Cemetery
Durán | Residential area
Guayaquil | Urbanización Valle Alto
Guayaquil | Torre Morisco
Guayaquil | Palacio Municipal
Guayaquil
Farmstead
Fruit collection
Motorway Guayaquil - Salinas
Salinas | Beach
Jambelí | Mangroves
Jambelí | Mangroves
Jambelí | Red mangrove
Jambelí | Beach
Jambelí | Sunset