These mostly natural setting images comprise 21 of the 24 provinces of Ecuador (excluding Carchi in the Sierra region and Esmeraldas and Los Rios from the Coast region). The time period was during the summer months in a country of rainforests, jungles, cloud forests, moist/dry beaches, deserts, islands of extreme endenism, active volcanoes, and glacial-capped peaks. The 2nd smallest country in South America (between 1°N and 5°S ), where the mountain climate of the Andes Mountains is varied (mild year-round in the mountain valleys and where the snowline is at about 16,400 ft./5,000m, which is lower than the snowline in nearby Bolivia and Peru.), and where hot and humid climate dominates in the coastal and Amazoni Basin lowlands.