ECUADOR COINS

Ecuador uses USA Dollars for the money of their country; this means that the USA prints the various types of papers money. However, it appears that Ecuador makes and stamps the coins, this I maybe ok, or probably the value of the metal in the coins may equal the value of the various USA coins.

I asked the Press Attaché in the United States Embassy how the Ecuadorian government discussed or asked about prior to using the USA dollars as the money of their country, he said,
“We read about it in the newspaper, they just went to the USA and purchased dollars and came back, we read it in the paper.”

These are above ground vaults for dead people, this is normally in done in areas where there is no land or where the ground table permanently keeps the soil saturated with water, in this particular situation I have no idea. This is in Guano Ecuador.

This is a bus stop in Ambato, Ecuador and if you notice closely, there is a propane gas tank and they are frying some form or disgusting looking meat, probably pork, hard to say and for sure, I am not going to try to find out.

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Anonymous said on Sunday February 11th, 2007 10:11:00 PM

The dollar coin shown in your photo is made in the USA as well. According to wikipedia, it is more popular in ecuador than the US, though. I was reading about this on wikipedia, but there are no photos of ecuadorian coins there, so it is nice to see them. Thanks for posting it

Anonymous said on Monday October 1st, 2007 01:28:00 AM

to who ever it was that posted the photo of the bus stop in ecuador and the person cooking that so called disgusting meat.well for all you know it could be alot more healthy than the meat here in the states.by the way the cooking outside at the bustop thing it's called trying to make a living in a poor country.how would you survive if you lived there ?

Anonymous said on Sunday August 10th, 2008 12:14:00 PM

I second, the comments made about the Ecuadorian indeginious people who are trying to make a living in a third-world country. What they are making is a pork finger food type side street dish called "Fritada", it's actually very tasty its served with white corn and sauteed onions. If you've ever visited Time Square in New York, you'll see the US's version of these side street vendors selling one of my favorites.. NY hotdogs.

Michael Steinberg said on Friday September 18th, 2009 09:24:47 PM

What are they going to do when the dollar sinks? Aren't they poor enough, already?!!

Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Saturday September 19th, 2009 01:15:19 AM

Dollars are the safe money on the planet, through the economic problems of 2008 and 2009 people ran to dollars, not away..