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.