Ecuador is one of the 17 most megabiodiverse countries on the planet. It has mangroves, tropical dry forests, tropical pacific wet forests, pacific cloud forests, andean paramos, andean montane forests, amazonian cloud forests, amazonian tropical wet forests, active snow-capped volcanoes, crater lakes, inhabited craters, rivers and fertile valleys and a marine archipelago crossed by the equator. A small country with so many resources!!