Equatorial Spanish

Thus, the dialect sets the phonemical axis of accentual-tonal transition throughout the American varieties of Spanish, which extends geographically from the northern semi-low intonation of Central American and the Caribbean dialects (since only the European variants of Spanish are particularly low-pitched) to the sharp high intonation characteristic of the lands located south, typical of Peru, Chile, and Argentina.

Therefore, the variant of Spanish spoken in the Ecuadorian coast and its neighboring western Andean plains, shares many features of both Caribbean dialects of northern Colombia and Venezuela, as well as some southern features of the Peruvian and Chilean seaboard, making identification of this dialect very difficult to the ears of an outsider.

Another subvariety of the dialect prominent in wealthier regions like samborondon employs words of Italian, Spanish, and Arabic provenance, with argot similar to lunfardo.

A famous caricature of this variety is played by the Ecuadorian actress Marcela Ruete in her role of "La Cococha."

Boyd-Bowman (1953) states that the features that he has observed show clearly a phonetic continuity along the coasts of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in contrast to that of their respective Andean provinces.