- Because the Earth bulges at the equator, the summit of Mount Chimborazo is the point on Earth closest to the sun and outer space, technically outrunning Mount Everest by over 2 kilometres when measured from the Earth’s center
- In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize nature’s constitutional rights, allowing ecosystems the legal “right to exist, persist, and maintain” their vital cycles
- Ecuador is the world’s largest exporter of bananas, shipping billions of them annually
