Understanding Global Cultures

UMD Library Catalogue
- JSTORE (journal archives)
The Library of Congress
- Global Gateway > Portals to the World > Ecuador
country profiles
- Ecuador -- CIA World Factbook
- Ecuador -- U.S. Department of State
- Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands -- Lonely Planet
- Ecuador -- BBC News
- Ecuador -- NationMaster.com
- Ecuador -- CountryReports.org
- Ecuador -- Eldis -- Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
general information
- AdmiNet > World > America > Ecuador
timelines
- BBC News timeline
- World News Atlas > Latin America > Ecuador
holidays
- Public Holidays in Ecuador -- Wikipedia
- Public and Banking Holidays for Ecuador -- Q++ Studio
national anthem
- national-anthems.net > Americas > Ecuador

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newspapers / newsnetworks specific to Ecuador and its environs
- The Media in Ecuador -- BBC News
- AllYouCanRead.com > Newspapers > South America > Ecuador
- The Internet Public Library > Newspapers > South America > Ecuador
- OnlineNewspapers.com > Ecuador
- economist.com > countries > Ecuador
- GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights > Ecuador
- topix.net » Front Page » World News » South America » Ecuador
- List of newspapers in Ecuador -- Wikipedia
newspapers / newsnetworks of regional and Latin American scope
radio
- OneWorld Radio

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government resources
- Ecuadorian Secretary of Foreign Relations
- Embassy of Ecuador in the United States of America
  - Ecuador
- Embassy of the United States in Quito, Ecuador
- U.S. International Information Programs > Regions > The Americas > Ecuador
  -- U.S. policy and issues related to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean region, Central America and South America
language
- Spanish Dictionaries

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food

eLook.org > Latin American, Mexican > Ecuador
Ecuador food -- Wikipedia
Saveur: Savor a World of Authentic Cuisine > Ecuador
World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
Ecuador -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
Ecuadorian Cuisine & Recipes -- What's 4 Eats: International Recipes & Cooking Around the World
World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > South American

religion
- Internet Sacred Text Archive >
- Sacred Destinations > Ecuador -- Holly Hayes
the arts
- Timeline of Art History > Americas, Andes ; Americas, Ecuador -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
cities
- Major Cities -- Lonely Planet
- World Heritage Cities
  - Cuenca
  - Quito
- Historic Cities > Countries > Ecuador
  - Quito
- Cities Around the World -- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
architecture
- Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Architecture of South & Central America > Ecuador -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc.

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other WebSites
- Famous Ecuadorian People -- Wikipedia
- The Saraguros -- Jim Belote and Linda Belote
  - SARAGURO: BIBLIOGRAFÍA GENERAL
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Observer -- Ecuador
- Ethnomed -- Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington
- UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
- Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life -- David Alfaro Siqueiros
- "People and Places: Ecuador" -- National Geographic
- Migration Policy Institute
- LivinginLatinAmerica.com
- Abya Yala Net -- including Native Web,
  ("a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples")
- Ecuador Reference Desk -- Latin American Network Information Center, University of Texas
- UNESCO WebWorld Portals >> Observatory Portal on the Information Society >> Regions >> [International] >> Latin America and Caribbean >> Ecuador
- SoundTransit -- soundscapes and sound clips from around the world
- Migration Information Source -- Migration Policy Institute
  - Ecuador
- culture-bound syndromes
  - mal ojo (evil eye)
  - susto (fright sickness)
- Political Database of the Americas -- Georgetown University
- H-LatAm -- an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History
- Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520 - 1820 -- Smith College
video

Video: Trinkets and Beads
(53 min., 1996, VC 2840)

Ecuador Slides

Certified fair trade quinoa farmers in Ecuador

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