Esmeraldas River
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The Esmeraldas River is a river in northwestern Ecuador
that flows into the Pacific Ocean
. Charles Marie de la Condamine
sailed up it and then climbed the Andes Mountains when on the Ecuadorian Expedition that left France in May 1735.
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
that flows into the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
. Charles Marie de la Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.-Biography:Charles Marie de La...
sailed up it and then climbed the Andes Mountains when on the Ecuadorian Expedition that left France in May 1735.