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Stories Set in Ecuador
Ecuador is a small country packing highlands, jungle and Pacific islands into a day's drive. Its stories tend to be journeys between those worlds rather than portraits of one city. Arthur the King and Misfit both pass through. Open Ecuador on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Ecuador on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Ecuador
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Browse 17 books, 23 movies and 2 games set in Ecuador.
Arthur the King
Over the course of ten days and 435 miles an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of…
Misfit
Julia a teenager from Latin America has lived in the U.S. most of her life. She is popular a successful Youtuber and wants to become prom queen. Everything changes abruptly when her family has to return to Ecuador. What…
Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
When their trip to San Lorenzo takes a turn for the worst Arnold and his classmate’s only hope of getting home is retracing the dangerous path that led to Arnold's parents' disappearance.
Cat's Cradle
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding…
Snatched
When her boyfriend dumps Emily a spontaneous woman in her 30s she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey their…
Yasuni Man
YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them the Waorani people…
Risk
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary…
The Milagro Beanfield War
In Milagro a small town in the American Southwest Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the…
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands which…
Through Gates of Splendor
In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world has…
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