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…like a giant 2,722-foot sparkler.  They have a similar New Year’s display at Taipei 101, the former tallest building in the world.  In Ecuador, their celebrations also involve fire, but…

…western South America, which today includes Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Northern Chile.  All tomatoes today are thought to originate from a single species known as Solanum lycopersicum. The first tomatoes…

…the Pacific coast and going through Cali, Colombia, Quito, Ecuador, Lima, Peru, and the Atacama Desert to Valparaiso, Chile.  From here, the road takes a 90-degree turn and heads east…

…are also green sand beaches in Guam, Ecuador, and Norway. The green sand comes from the mineral olivine. Olivine is very common in the Earth’s mantle but much rarer on…

…for killing 100,000 people.  He was actually captured by the Americans after the war, but he escaped. He made it to Ecuador in 1949, then moved to Chile, where he…