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Ecuador  

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  • Ecuador, a nation on the west coast of South America, straddles the Amazonian lowlands, the Andes, a humid coastal plain, and the Galapagos Islands. The population of about 12 million (2001 census) is well along in its demographic transition, with low and declining death rates and declining birth rates. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Ecuador]

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