Ecuador
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the area in 1533. Not finding the wealth of the mythical El Dorado, he and other conquistadors, notably Gonzalo Pizarro...high inflation, and nearly $3 billion in damages from El Nino . The sucre, the national currency, plunged in 1999, bringing...