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The Republic of Ecuador was constituted May 11, 1830, in consequence of a civil war which separated the members of the original Republic of Colombia, founded by Simon Bolivar, by uniting the Presidency of Quito to the Vice-Royalty of New Grenada, and the Captaincy-General of Venezuela, when they threw off the Spanish yoke. A Boundary Treaty which was concluded between Peru and Ecuador on the 2nd of May, 1890, and sanctioned by the Ecuadorian Congress, was subjected to amendment by Peru in 1893, and in 1894 was revoked by the Ecuadorian Congress. Ecuador is also involved in a dispute with the Republic of Colombia respecting certain territories on the left bank of the river Napo. By its Constitution, dating 1884, with modifications in 1887, the executive is vested in a President, elected for the term of four years, while the legislative power is given to a Congress of two Houses ; the first consisting of two senators for each province (chosen for four years, one-half retiring every two years), and the second of deputies, on the basis of one deputy for every 30,000 inhabitants, chosen for two years ; both elected by adults who can read and write and are Roman Catholics. The Congress meets on the 10th of June of every other year at Quito, the capital and seat of the Government, without being summoned by the Government. The election of the President takes place in a direct manner by the people, and that of the Vice-President, whose term of office is also four years, by the same procedure, but two years after that of the President, so that he is a member of two distinct administrations. The Vice-President in certain cases may be called upon to occupy the Presidential chair. He also discharges the duties of President of the Council of State.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Ecuador
1. Official Publications
Geografia y Geologia del Ecuador, publicado por órden del Supremo Gobierno de la Republica, por Dr. Teodoro Wolf. Leipzic, 1898.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual Series, and Miscellaneous Series. London.
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. 4. London.
Ecuador. No. 64 of the Bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics. Washington, 1892.
2. Non-Official Publications
Bates (H. W.), Central and South America. London, 1882.
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Cevallos, Compendio del resúmen de la historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1886. Resúmen de la historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1886. Geografìa del Ecuador. Lima 1888.
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. Annual Report. London.
Ecuador in 1881. Report of Mr. G. E. Church to the United States Government. Reprinted in South American Journal. London, 1883.
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Flemming (B.), Wanderungen in Ecuador. 8. Leipzig, 1872.
Geratäcker (Friedrich), Achtzehn Monate in Süd-Amerika, 3 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1863.
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Kaufmann (A. G.), Garcia Morena, Präsident der Republik Ecuador. Freiburg, 1891.
Oviedo y Valdés, Historia de las Indias. Madrid, 1885. 4 v.
Reiss (W.), and Stübel (A.), Hochgebirge der Republik Ecuador. 3 vols. Berlin, 1892–98
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Simson (Alfred), Travels in the Wilds of Ecuador. London, 1887.
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Whymper (Edward), Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London, 1892.
Wolf (T.), Geografìa y Geologia del Ecuador. Fol. Leipsic, 1891.
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Keltie, J.S. (1900). Ecuador. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270299_19
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