A brief warm rain fell that night, and in our bungalow beds, sweating in the humidity, we studied our map. We had just 20 kilometers to the border. We would be in Ecuador by noon.

When the shaking, faint but jarring, began, Daniel Orellana, a geographer at the University of Cuenca, in southern Ecuador, was at home with his wife and daughter. It was Saturday evening, around ...

Cotopaxi, one of the highest volcanoes in the world and sacred to Andean people, rises into the sky at an elevation of 19,347 feet. Situated in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, along the "Avenue of ...

Such questions had few concrete answers in Quito back then. Elsewhere in Latin America, Modernism had produced massive social housing and infrastructure projects but in Ecuador, the handful of ...

In the mountains surrounding Quito, Ecuador, a new species remained hidden until a photo was posted online. Vince Fleming via Unsplash On a beautiful, sunny morning in the forests surrounding ...