South America Ecuador http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D004484 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/223718000 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16528 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ecuador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador https://gynopedia.org/Ecuador https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q736 A country in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. The country also includes the Galapagos Islands (Archipelago de Colon) in the Pacific, about 965 km west of the mainland. Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces, divided into 199 cantons and subdivided into parishes (or parroquias). Ecuadorian country The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide, Vol. 1