Video: Ecuador with views from its Andean mountains, the City of Quito and Guayaquil, the Amazon rainforest the beaches on the Pacific coast and views from the Galapagos Islands. Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador) is a representative democratic republic in South America. The country also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 965 kilometers (600 miles) west of the mainland. See this page here for Pictures from Ecuador.