This stub has been written as a possible trigger for collaborative research on "Sweden and the Andean world in the eighteenth century". These materials may have use in, for example, a history of Swedish-Andean contact / relations / migration etc and would be particularly important to the education of South Americans (e.g. Ecuadorians) in Sweden - and vice versa. It could also be noted that La Condamine disseminated knowledge of rubber technology and quinine (red bark) anti-malarial medicine, then utilised in Ecuador but not (to any extent) in Europe.