We represented in Fig. 8 the parishes (as circles) according to their degree value and community: Santo Domingo (degree 136,405), visible as the largest green circle belonging to community 5 in the northwest, and Saquisili (degree 88,093), the largest yellow circle located in the centre of the country, belonging to community 3. The province boundaries shown in Fig. 8A do not coincide with the communities. The highest intercommunity boundaries were identified from communities 3 to 5 (weight 6,700), connecting the central highlands with the northeastern coastal zone, and the second from communities 2 to 4, connecting the southern coastal zone with the southern highlands (weight 5,184), visible in Fig. 8B.
Figure 8. Representation of nodes and edges of the Ecuadorian parish network and its communities (2017–2019). (A) Movements between parish centroids, node size by aggregate degree, province boundary in gray. (B) Intra-community movement represented as node size (community degree value), edge size proportional to aggregate movements between communities, nodes located at the approximate centroid of the community.