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NATURAL RESOURCES OF ECUADOR - Coggle Diagram
NATURAL RESOURCES OF ECUADOR
A DIVERSE AND PRIVILEGED GEOGRAPHY
Our country has great natural resources located in its soil, vegetation, and fauna, mineral and energetic resources. Its geography is extremely diverse and rich.
The Andean mountain c hain forms a diversity of valleys and different types of soils, ecological floors and microclimates, from the cold ice cream of the perpetual snows of the volcanoes and moors
Its territory is located on the equator line and has large extensions of tropical vegetation on the coast, as well as green and extensive Amazonian plains.
The tropical regions are complemented by the presence of the Andes m ountains , which extends from the north to the south.
FOREST AND ECOTURISM
Ecuador has great forest resources , especially primary forests. Some are protected and have been declared "national parks" or "nature reserves". Forests are threatened by indiscriminate logging and illegal marketing.
The country is attractive for tourism because in relatively small territory there is a great diversity of landscapes that can be traveled in a short time.
This does not happen in other countries where y ou need to travel long distances, in a very long time, to visit different places.
MINING AND OIL
Ecuador's mining resources are very valuable. The country has large mineral reserves located above all in the southern region of the Andes mountain range.
Although the production of these minerals is still reduced, the artisanal exploitation of gold is highlighted in the provinces of El Oro, Azuay and Zamora Chinchipe. In this region d eposits of copper, silver, iron and other metals have been detected.
Oil is another of Ecuador's great natural resources. Oil exploitation provides the State with the most important revenues of the economy.
WATER AS A FUTURE AND VITAL RESOURCE
Water is an increasingly valued resource in the world. It is strategic for the future of each country. Lack of it is a source of conflict and dispute.
Ecuador has large reservoirs of water in its many rivers, lagoons and wetlands. This is a resource , that will preserve the future of the Ecuadorian population.
*The water resources are used for agricultural irrigation, provision of potable water and the generation of hydropower, our country can also use wind-generated energy (wind energy), solar energy and geothermal energy.
