is ecuador a hilly place?
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Ecuador has a coastal region, a mountain range (the Andes) and a jungle region.\n\nQuito as many hills. Like San Francisco - It has flat areas that you can walk. Quito itself is in a valley between mountains and volcanoes.\n\nIt really depends where you are in Ecuador.
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Seychelles is a good location.
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It's nice there.  Certainly not a paradise.  Seychelles is a paradise (Praslin).
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Yepp...all countries that heavily chopped off their trees lend a helping hand to soil erosion and thus, land slides. It is quite common in India.
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I'd say ecuador will be costa rica with a score of 2-1
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Ecuador beat Bolivia in La Paz.
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Colombia  tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands
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South America. It's further east....
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The capital of Ecuador is Quito.
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Yeah, K2 right next door is supposed to be harder.  The Alps even have a few that are supposed to be harder.  Everest is the tallest, but that doesn't mean it is the hardest.
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Oil workers (pipeline, refinery workers)\nfarmers (bananas)\nshrimp boat fishermen (like Forrest Gump)\nEcuador is also famous for Panama Hats - so hat making\n\nThe following is from Wikipedia:\nThe economy of Ecuador is based on petroleum production, money transfers from nearly a million ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad, and exports of bananas, shrimp, and other primary agricultural products. In 2002, oil accounted for about one-third of public sector revenue and 40% of export earnings. Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas ($936.5 million in 2002) and a major exporter of shrimp ($251 million in 2002). Exports of nontraditional products such as flowers ($291 million in 2002) and canned fish ($333 million in 2002) have grown in recent years. Industry is largely oriented to servicing the domestic market.
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It is technically possible...but do you think the Ecuadoreans would permit it?
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There is no specific dividing line between mountains and hills. In general a hill is smaller and is a weathered, eroded mountain, but there are many exceptions to that where hills have formed from erosion of peneplains or other features that weren't mountains. There's a discussion with no conclusion on Wikipedia. \n\nSince geographers work with the place names given to many features by the local inhabitants the distinction between mountain and hill tends to be relative to a region or area. In east Texas there are small hills named mountains. Another example is the well-known Yucca Mountain in Nevada which is a potential nuclear repository. It is not anything I would call a mountain. Another mountain that carries my surname is, much to my dismay, a hill among the surrounding mountains. It just happens to stand alone in the middle of a wide valley.
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Ecuador is looking really good so far.  I think they will make it out of the Group stage.  I think they should be able to pull off a win against Costa Rica, but Germany will be tough.  They will probably get the second place spot in their group, then lose in the round of 16.
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depends on where the hills are
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It depends on your interests.  From Quito, the things most people do are go to the market at Otavalo and see the Mitad del Mundo monument at the Equator.  There's also a large, pre-Inca archaeological site called Cochasqui.  Cotopaxi and other volcanoes are breathtaking, and there are some trekking companies that can arrange for you to hike several.  The Galapagos are of course a big hit, but are sometimes out of reach of the budget traveler.  Along the coast is the Ruta del Sol, a bunch of villages along the main highway that participate in tourism.  At Puerto Lopez (along the Ruta del Sol) is the Parque Nacional de Machalilla, which features whale watching, bird watching, trips to the near-by Isla de la Plata, a beautiful beach at Los Frailes, and another huge archaeological site called Agua Blanca (the park is sometimes referred to as the poor man's Galapagos).  In Guayaquil itself is the new Malecon boardwalk area with shops, restaurants, and a new museum.  A little further south is Cuenca, which has some beautiful colonial architecture...the city itself is the thing to see.  If you're interested in the Amazon, a lot of people travel by bus from Quito to Tena, and operators there can organize river tours, meeting with shamans, and visiting bio-reserves.  Enjoy your trip!
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Places that are less geologically active, and less prone to quakes, should be away from subduction zones, away from hot spots and volcanoes, and in very old stable landmasses, like in the center of continents as long as it is not a young mountain range.\nThere are a few places, but it is likely they will have some other undesirable characteristics, like foul weather, pests, or lack of ressources.  The following link shows where the most recent earthquakes occured, the second one shows which area are more affected.