Republic of Ecuador

State · 1834–2026 CE · at its largest around 1834 CE

The Andean republic that separated from Gran Colombia in 1830, with Quito as its capital and Juan José Flores as its first president.

On its lands while it lasted

• Voyage of the Beagle: England to the Pacific (1831–1835 CE): HMS Beagle, with the young naturalist Charles Darwin aboard, spent years surveying the coasts of South America, visited the Galápagos Islands in 1835 and crossed the Pacific to Tahiti. Darwin’s observations later shaped his theory of evolution.

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