Talk:Ecuador

History

I'm ecuadorian, and son to an historian / archaeologist. I have been studying my country's history since 1998. First of all, it should be mentioned that Valdivia pottery is the most ancient in all Americas. And that merchant-sailors from the Manta culture travelled as far away as Mexico and Chile, stablishing one of the longest trade routes in the ancient world. Finally, a lot of modern days vegetables where first domesticated in the region including Ecuador, south Colombia and northern Peru, including beans, peppers, pumpkins, papayas, pineapples, and others.

Second, modern history has concluded that there was never a "confederation called the Shyris". The Shyris were created by an imaginative colonial priest, and there is no historical or archaeological record to sustain his tale. Please refer to the work of modern historians like Enrique Ayala Mora.

As for the Incas, they never took control of the whole country. They stablished themselves in the southern and central highlands of Ecuador, maintained a continous war in the north (when spaniards arrived, the caranqui-cayambis still had control of a lot of the region), made agreements with the powerful merchant cultures of the coast, and tried without luck to get a foothold in the amazon. In the north, Incas presence was of 50 years only.

Finally, a bether description of modern day politics is needed. Ecuador has one of the strongest indigenous and farmers movements in the americas, but they are not the only reason for the fall of 3 presidents in the last years. There is high degree of political and democratic consciousness in the population, with the 2008 constitution as one of the products of it. A brief description of the problem by an expert on the subject could help a lot.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javier Carrera (talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The confederation of the shyris is still under dispute. The most important archeological proves which were inexistent before like the existence of the quitu was not found until recently, therefore it's still under dispute.

As for the incas, within the paragraph i think to the benefit of your argument, it says the incas gained expansion loosely. More like city states, and not conquered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.14.135.51 (talk) 18:15, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Setting up auto-archiving

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Population is wrong.

There was a population Census recently and the results are different from the infobox and the rest of the article, they should be changed. Source is the national census office. http://www.inec.gob.ec/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.30.165 (talk) 01:00, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

I would suggest that that source will we useful in due time, but while a source confesses to being "preliminary data", it confesses to not being confident of reliable data. Kevin McE (talk) 10:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Guayaquil 2´200.000 Quito 1´600.000 Cuenca 330.000 Sto Domingo 300.000 Machala 240.000 Durán 230.000 Portoviejo 220.000 Manta 210.000 Loja 185.000 Ambato 179.000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.46.79.223 (talk) 17:23, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

We need a reliable source to support that info. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:17, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

largest cities in Ecuador box (bugzilla:29171)

The edit links for the largest cities in Ecuador box was going to the wrong place. I tried to fix it by making it go directly to the article, I'm not sure if it'd be better if there just was no edit links (and if so, I have no idea how to do that). Anyways, I thought I'd leave a note so that you folks who probably know about such things better then me might be able to sort it out better. Cheers. Bawolff (talk) 19:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Guayaquil 2´280.000, Quito 1´620.000, Cuenca 330.000, Santo Domingo 305.000, Machala 240.000, Portoviejo 225.000, Loja 185.000 and Ambato 179.000 habitants

Demonym is spelled three different ways in this article

I hope that an expert can volunteer to edit the article so that the proper demonym is used everywhere. I see Ecuadorean, Ecuadorian, and Ecuadoran - they can't all be right, can they? BrianWilloughby (talk) 06:02, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Update: Thanks, Southamerica2010, for the Merrian Webster reference. It seems that all three demonyms are, indeed, correct. BrianWilloughby (talk) 11:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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