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Origin of the name Ecuador The name Ecuador has its origin from the Spanish. Since the country is located on the equator, the Spanish called it El Ecuador.Symbols Click on each link below to learn more about the symbols. Capital-Quito National Animal-Andean Condor National Flag-The Ecuadorian flag has three horizontal stripes which from the bottom up are red, blue, and yellow.eography. Ecuador is a very geographically varied country. It is about the same area as the US state of Nevada, or New Zealand and it is a bit larger than the United Kingdom. It straddles the equator (for which it was named) on the west (Pacific Ocean) coast of South America.
âHow Cotopaxi got its name is unknown,â according to historian Virginia McConnell Simmons in The Upper Arkansas Valley, but we can start speculating in Ecuador, home of the above Cotopaxi. At 19,347 feet, itâs the highest active volcano in the world, and the second-highest mountain in Ecuador. According to Mountain Names by Robert Hixson Julyan, Cotopaxi comes from two Quecha words, ccota pasca, which mean âshining pile.â Rather than apply their own name, the Spanish adapted the local name after conquering the area in 1551.