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'''Equador''', officially the '''Republic of Equador''' (''República do Equador'' ) is a country located in northwestern South America. Equador is the largest country of the continent by area and also which shares the most borders,. sevenSeven in total. It is bordered to the northeast by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Pernambuco and Bahia, to the south by Brazil, to the west by Peru, to the north by Colombia, Guyana and Palissandria. Equador is a sparsely populated country, with the majority of the population located around the Amazon river and the urban centers of Belém and Manaus. The majority of the country is inside the Amazon rainforest, which made it one of the 17 megadiverse countries.

The region where Equador lies today was already inhabited by humans since 12,000 BC. Around 1000 BC to 1000 AD, complex societies developed along the Atlantic coast and in the Amazon river bank. It’s unknown how those societies ended, by the time of the European arrival they were long gone. In the early 17th century, the region was inhabited by many indigenous groups such as the Tupi, Jê and Caribs. The first Portuguese settlement in the region was the city of Belém built in 1616. During the colonial period, the main economic activity of the regioncolony was the export of fruits and grains.