While exploring an isolated lagoon in the mountains of Ecuador, researchers found several colorful plants — one of which was a new species. The joint team of Ecuadorian, U.S. and German researchers ...

A 200-mile stretch of the Andes running through Ecuador can be zipped through in about 4 hours. But why would you with such ...

A Tulsa couple just climbed more than 2,000 feet through Ecuador to raise thousands of dollars for Little Light House. “Mountains haunt you. I have probably turned around on 20, 30, 40 summits,” said ...

COTOPAXI, Ecuador -- Riding a mountain bike down the side of the world's highest active volcano, from just below its 14,770-foot-high snowline to its foothills, can literally take away your breath.

The capital city of Quito is no longer just a stop-off point for travelers headed to Ecuador’s biodiversity hot spots. In the past decade, riders have discovered hundreds of miles of world-class ...

Cotopaxi, one of the highest volcanoes in the world and sacred to Andean people, rises into the sky at an elevation of 19,347 feet. Situated in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, along the "Avenue of the ...

Scientists found a scaly animal with a “collar” lurking in the Andes mountains and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shows a representative area of Ecuador. Photo from Reiseuhu via ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Ecuador — Rene Rubianes was dropping his car 8,000 feet down the Andes. “I know every curve,” he said on the two-lane road from Aloag to Santo Domingo. Good thing. He was sometimes ...

This sign just north of Tumbes is a clear sign, if the mangroves aren’t, that one is entering the muggy, and in some ways dangerous, tropics. Photo by Alastair Bland We Enter Malaria Country The ...