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___MASK60___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK60___ , is a country in western South America . It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and ___MASK80___ , in the east by Brazil , in the southeast by Bolivia , in the south by Chile , and in the west by the Pacific Ocean . ___MASK60___ is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river . ___MASK76___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK76___ ( which literally translates as " Republic of the Equator "), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America , bordered by ___MASK80___ on the north , Peru on the east and south , and the Pacific Ocean to the west . ___MASK76___ also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific , about west of the mainland . The Equator usually refers to an imaginary line on the ___MASK49___ ' s surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole , dividing the ___MASK49___ into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere . The Equator is about long ; some 78 . 7 % lies across water and 21 . 3 % over land . Julio Enrique Moreno ( 1879 -- 1952 ) was Acting President of ___MASK76___ from March to April 1926 and again from August to September 1940 . ___MASK80___ ( or ), officially the Republic of ___MASK80___ , is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America , with territories in Central America . ___MASK80___ shares a border to the northwest with Panama , to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru . It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica , Nicaragua , Honduras , Jamaica , the Dominican Republic and Haiti . It is a unitary , constitutional republic comprising thirty - two departments . The territory of what is now ___MASK80___ was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca , the Quimbaya and the Tairona . The Galápagos Islands ( official name : " Archipiélago de Colón ", other Spanish name : " Islas Galápagos ") are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere , west of continental ___MASK76___ , of which they are a part . The islands are known for their vast number of endemic species and were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the " Beagle ", as his observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin ' s theory of evolution by natural selection . The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the ___MASK49___ ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere , mostly in the southern hemisphere , with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere . It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the model used in nations that speak Romance languages . The reference to South America instead of other regions ( like Latin America or the Southern Cone ) has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics ( in particular , the rise of ___MASK81___ ).