| Straddling the Equator in western South America , Ecuador is about the size of Colorado or Italy . While only a minnow in geographic size, it is one of the planet’s giants of biodiversity. “…when you transverse Ecuador from the Amazon rainforest to the snowline of the Cotopaxi (Earth’s highest active volcano), it equals a journey from Brazil to northern Canada in terms of climate changes and plant formations.” German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, 19th century |
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