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Ecuador
Ecological Statistics:
- It is one of the 17 countries with more biodiversity.
- Its biodiversity is the most concentrated in the world.
- Occupies the 3rd place in amphibians having 402 species
- Occupies the 4rd place in birds
- It has 16 ethnic groups, languages and different customs.
- It is one of the 9 countries with more vertebrates diversity.
- It has 280 volcanoes, which 18 of them are active.
- In the tropical jungle, relatively inexploted, grows more
than 2240 known species of trees.
| Numeric
relationship of species for each transept of 1000km |
| Ecuador |
9.2 |
| Malasia |
4.4 |
| Filipinas |
3.4 |
| Papua New Guinea |
3.2 |
| Colombia |
3 |
| Peru |
2 |
| Indonesia |
1.5 |
| Madagascar |
1.4 |
| Countries
with more proportion of protected area |
| Ecuador |
39.2 |
| Denmark |
32.2 |
| Venezuela |
28.9 |
| Germany |
25.8 |
| Austria |
23.9 |
| New Zealand |
22.7 |
| Dominican Republic |
21.5 |
| United Kingdom |
20.9 |
| Eslovaquia |
20.7 |
| Botswana |
18.3 |
| Chile |
18.1 |
*Information based onWorld Almanac 1998.
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