Possible Clues:

• Country road - cue for a detour?
• Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn't border Brazil
• The state capital is Quito
• A beetle found underneath old French coin in the country
• Place where Queen is replaced by Charlie and night finally gives way to day in a line drawn between poles
• Quito’s country
• Country's old currency - love clipping it
• Home country of Pancho Segura and Andres Gomez
• English copper met with endless love in the country
• Republic in South America, on the Pacific