Ecuador

The extent of what is now believed to be the largest and oldest network of pre-Hispanic cities was first unveiled in 2023 after a project scanning the area with laser-mapping techonology from above. Shielded by the jungle for hundreds of years, the remains of a massive 2,500-year-old network of Ecuadoran cities are being threatened by road and farm encroachment just as its long-held secrets are being revealed, researchers say.…

The Current16:20Huge ancient city discovered in Amazon"Wow" was all archaeologist Stéphen Rostain could say when LiDAR (light detection and ranging) laser technology revealed several ancient cities hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest."It's a gift for an archaeologist," he told The Current's Matt Galloway. Using the laser-scanning technology, researchers have uncovered a complex network of farmland, roads and neighbourhoods in Ecuador's Upano River Valley.The cities are believed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old,…

Letter bombs were sent to at least five journalists working in TV and radio stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing serious injury, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said.The prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into the crime of terrorism, without stating why the news stations were specifically targeted, or by whom.INFORMAMOSDetalles sobre las diligencias investigativas de @PoliciaEcuador, ante atentados (artefactos explosivos) a medios de comunicación en #GYE.EN…

We sometimes hear how inserting a mysterious USB drive into a computer carries the risk of infecting the machine with harmful software. But for one journalist in Ecuador, the consequences were even more alarming. When Lenin Artieda received a package containing a USB drive earlier this week, the journalist felt that connecting it to his computer was worth the risk, after all, it might have contained the details of a good story. But when he did so, the diminutive device exploded. Artieda, who also works as a…

Ride-hailing application Cabify will end its operations in Ecuador in mid-March after a "constant process of analysis" on the market, the company said. Cabify, which has operations in a handful of other Latin American countries and Spain, said in a statement that the decision would cut its services in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil and that a dozen employees would be affected.Read Also Late last year, the company, which says it has more than 42 million registered users, said it would invest $300 million through 2024 to…

Credit: Northumbria University Celebrating and sharing the lived history of Afro-Ecuadorian women, passed down through generations via the spoken word, is the objective of a collaborative research project led by Northumbria University and Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, alongside partners from the Mujeres de Asfalto collective, a Black feminist creative arts organization.…

A prison riot in Ecuador’s coastal city of Guayaquil left at least 11 inmates and policemen injured on Wednesday, prison authority SNAI said in a preliminary report, shortly after this week. a deadly confrontation occurred in another prison in the Andean country. Violence has plagued Ecuador’s prison system since early last year, resulting in hundreds of prisoners being killed. Between February 2021 and October 2022, there have been eight clashes in Ecuador’s prisons, which have left 373 prisoners violently…

Geovisualization of Cellular Antenna’s development of 2G, 3G, and 4GImage by the Author. Open Cell ID data feed in Ecuador since 2008. 2G Blue, 3G Pink 4G YellowSince 2017, the OpenCell ID organization has been collecting the location of cellular antennas from the community around the world. This open data project contains ~3.3GB of data compressed worldwide and includes location attributes, mobile network operator code, coverage, and country code. The dataset helps public/private institutions to understand the pattern of…

The women and children involved in the Uncommoning in the Andes make up Asociación Ñucanchic Allpa Mamamanta Warmicuna. Credit: Monica Malo, Author provided In the remote Andean community of El Cisne in Ingapirca, Ecuador, one of the first things you'll notice is children's laughter. In a courtyard, women gather with their children to trace ancestral knowledge and memories—and they do this using wool.…