Here are some helpful tidbits as we get to know this wonderful country of Ecuador.

• Population as of 2010: 12,646,068 (who were those 68 people?)
• Capital: Quito (1.6 million)
• People group breakdown: Spanish-speaking (59%), Quichua (39%), Lowland tribes (1%), Other (1%)
• Main exports: oil, flowers, shrimp, bananas (the world's largest exporter; good thing I like bananas!)
• 82% Catholic, 5% Protestant, 8% Unaffiliated, 5% Other
• Amazon jungle in the east, high Andean Sierra in center, coastal plain on Pacific Coast, Galapagos Islands 1,000 km off the coast.
• Information taken from Operation World

I found this photo online; apparently it was taken in Ecuador.  Have you ever seen this many bananas?!