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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. By its Constitution, dating 1884, with modifications in 1887 and 1897, 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 two years), and the second of deputies, on the basis of one deputy for every 15,000 inhabitants, chosen for two years; both elected by adults who can read and write. The Congress meets on the 10th of August of every year at Quito, the capital, 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 State A new Constitution is (December, 1906) being voted by the Constituent As¬sembly.
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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 Republics, por Dr. Teodoro Wolf. Leipzic, 1893.
Foreign Office Reports, Annual 8eries, 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
Campos, Galeria de Ecuatorianos célebres. Guayaquil, 1881.
Cevallos, Compendio del resúmen de la historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1885. Resúmen de ia historia del Ecuador. Guayaquil, 1886. Geografia del Ecuador. Lima, 1888.
Corporation of Foreign Bondholders. Annual Report. London.
Flemming (B.), Wanderungen in Ecuador. 8. Leipzig, 1872.
Gerstäcker (Friedrich), Achtzehn Monate in Süd-Amerika. 3 vols. 8. Leipzig, 1863.
González Suárez, Historia ecclesiástica del Ecuador. Quito, 1881.
Hassaurek (F.), Four Years among Spanish Americans. 3rd edition. Cincinnati, 1881.
Herrera (P.), Apuntes para la historia de Quito. Quito, 1874.
Kaufmann (A. G.), Garcia Morena, Präsident der Republik Ecuador. Freiburg, 1891.
Orton (Prof.), The Andes and the Amazon. New York.
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.
Schwarda (T.), Reise um die Erde. Vol. III. 8. Braunschweig, 1861.
Simson (Alfred), Travels in the Wilds of Ecuador. London, 1887.
Stübel (A.), Die Vulkanberge von Ecuador. [Geology and Topography.] Berlin. 1897.
Ternaux-Compans (L.), Histoire du royaume de Quito. Traduite de l’Espagnol. (Velasco, Historia del reino de Quito.) 2 vols. 8. Paris, 1840.
Wagner (Moritz Friedrich), Reisen in Eucador; in ‘Zeitschriftfürallgemeine Erdkunde. Vol. xvi. Berlin, 1864.
Whymper (Edward), Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator London, 1892.
Wolf (T.), Geografia y Geologia del Ecuador. Fol. Leipzig, 1891.
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Keltie, J.S. (1907). Ecuador. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270367_21
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