This article needs cleanup. Please Ecuador, about halfway between the equator and the Colombian border. Accessed off of Route 35, the nearest major city is Quito. Some 500 Creole Spanish_speaking villagers live here above the Quechua_speaking (Inca) farmers lower on the Andes mountains. Using the adjacent fast_running Rio Chota as their focus, they are agrarian and raise pigs and goats. They are black and of African descent.
The Chotans claim to have come from Esmeraldas on the Pacific long ago. It is the only other black enclave (but far larger) in the country which reportedly is 10 percent black. Alternatively, their ancestors may have escaped slavery in nearby Colombia, as it should be noted, their history is oral only.
The climate can be hot or cool, but is ever dusty. Annual flooding and landslides are a dangerous problem in the rainy season. The altitude of this set of villages is unreported, but lies between the tree line and the snow line. Homes are simple and most or all are one room only. They are made of cinder blocks or grass and reeds.
The rivers, finally checked by the sea, deposit their remaining silt, which emerges as banks or blunted promontories, or, after a year's battling with the tide, adds a few feet or it may be a few inches to the foreshore.
The other principal rivers in Bengal are the Sone, Gogra, Gandak, Kusi, Tista; the Hugh, formed by the junction of the Bhagirathi and Jalangi, and farther to the west, the Damodar and Rupnarayan; and in the south-west, the Mahanadi or great river of Orissa.
The Aryan languages are spoken in the plains by almost the whole population; the Munda and Dravidian in the Chota Nagpur plateau and adjoining tracts; and the Tibeto-Burman in Darjeeling, Sikkim and Jalpaiguri.
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