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	Esmeraldas - What's New - Ecuador
		This province is one of the five that form the Coastal Region, It borders on the north with Colombia, on the south with the provinces of Manabi and Pichincha, on the east with Carchi and Imbabura, and on the west with the Pacific Ocean.
		The city of Esmeraldas, capital of the province by the same name, and a Pacific port, is a main trade center for the agricultural, livestock and forestry produce of the region, trading in bananas, rubber, cocoa, wood and cattle.
		The Esmeraldas River, located in northwest Ecuador and 80 km in length, is the main water collector of the region; it is a watercourse whose source is the confluence of innumerable small mountain streams, and two important Andean rivers, the Guayllabamba and the Blanco.
	www.enjoyecuador.net /english/what-new/quito-esmeraldas.shtml (1333 words)

	Sustainable Development & Conservation, Ecuador
		Esmeraldas, comprising 15,237 square kilometers and 428.902 inhabitants, is the northern coastal province bordering the Republic of Colombia.
		The city of Esmeraldas with a population of 250.566 inhabitants is the provincial capital and home to 80% of Ecuador's fl population.
		The bureaucracy and the state controlled petroleum industry account for 23% full-employment, while 70% of the population in the city of Esmeraldas is engaged in the informal and self-employed sector.
	www.selvaeco.org /html/esmeraldas.html (1278 words)

	esmeraldas ecuador- Regions of Ecuador - Ecuador General Information : GoEcuador.com
		Esmeraldas is also very famous for its music filled with rhythm whose primordial instrument is the marimba constructed by the players themselves.
		The city of Manta is connected to the rest of the country by air, land and sea.
		Bahía is a city that is holding on strong in spite of fin de siecle natural disasters that severely damaged its infrastructure.
	www.goecuador.com /ecuador-general-info/ecuador-north-coast2.html (634 words)

	Esmeraldas Ecuador - Ministry of Tourism - Ecuador
		The city of Esmeraldas, the provinces capital, is one of Ecuador’s main ports and terminal for the nation's petroleum pipeline.
		Esmeraldas’ beaches are undoubtedly one of its main attractions.
		San Lorenzo is a timber-exporting port that lies 18 km to the south of the Colombian border.
	www.vivecuador.com /html2/eng/esmeraldas_en.htm (701 words)

	Complete Online Ecuador Travel Guide - Western Slopes to the Pacific Coast - Information for Ecuador Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Esmeraldas is the major city along the north coast and offers modern necessities for Ecuador tours such as mail service, communications, banking, and medical facilities.
		The view is attractive from a distance, especially as the city lights begin to sparkle against the backdrop of the sun setting over the Pacific.
		Southwest of Esmeraldas along the coast is the beach-resort town of Atacames, where vacationing Quitenos and Colombian families flock for holidays and wet-season weekends.
	www.travel-ecuador.net /north_west/pacific_coast/visitor_info.php (1799 words)

	Ecuador Coast
		The name of "Esmeraldas" is due to the green color of its forests.
		It is considered an important commercial center and is the sixth largest city in Ecuador.
		Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and main sea port, is the capital of the Guayas Province.
	www.thebestofecuador.com /costa.htm (1467 words)

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		The city of Esmeraldas is the capital of the province by the same name.
		As we drove toward the city, I was struck by the large number of dilapidated huts in which people live, the ramshackle buildings that serve as commercial establishments, and the strong smell of factory and vehicle exhaust fumes.
		Although the city is clearly in a state of disrepair, the residents of Esmeraldas are dressed neatly, in dresses or long slacks.
	www.cobar.org /Docs/ecuador.DOC (1643 words)

	Ecuadorian coast Around Esmeraldas
		Manta is a modern city, but some antique bamboo and wooden houses still remain as a remainder of the old village.
		The city of Manta is decorated by a wide variety of tree species: ceibos, jasmines, almonds, rubber plants, acacias, mango trees, beautiful palm trees on the beaches, etc. Colorful flowers like that of the "Buganvilla" plant are also found.
		The museum includes a permanent exhibit room of the archeology of the seven cultures that inhabited the province of Manabi from 4.200 BC to 1.530 AC: Valdivia, Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, Bahía, Jama-Coaque and Manteño-Huancavilca.
	www.exploringecuador.com /en_ar_sun_route.htm (2897 words)

	Esmeraldas Ecuador
		As you follow the coastal road north from the city of Esmeraldas and cross the Esmeraldas river, cattle ranches and farmland are soon replaced by thick forests and deserted coastline.
		Half an hour south of the city of Esmeraldas, unpretentious Atacames is abuzz with all manner of youthful frolic year-round.
		Esmeraldas is the wettest coastal province, and "summer" is simply less rainy than the rest of the year.
	www.ecuadorexplorer.com /html/esmeraldas_province.html (4253 words)

	Ecuador coast region
		The Ecuadorian Pacific coast and western lowlands locally known as "la costa" is formed by the following densely populated provinces, from north to south: Esmeraldas, Manabí, Los Ríos, Guayas and El Oro.
		Guayaquil is Ecuador’s largest city, principle port and the economic center of Ecuador.
		Esmeraldas the Green Province, as it is called, is located on the country’s northwestern coast.
	www.in-quito.com /coast-region.htm (507 words)

	Esmeraldas Ecuador
		Esmeraldas is and has been for many years a major tobacco, cacao and gold mining based province.
		In addition, it also exports timbers and has an oil pipeline running through to the Balao sea terminal oil refinery that is piped all the way from the Oriente while further along the coast from the capital it has several shrimp farms and spread intermittently cattle farms and ranches.
		The province is one of the poorest of the country and the city of Esmeraldas has frequent water shortage problems and is not an attractive place for tourists or travelers, although the surrounding areas of the province are worth exploring as the lands are rich in history and culture here.
	www.thebestofecuador.com /esmeraldas.htm (808 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Capital of the Province of the same name, Esmeraldas is located in northwestern Ecuador, 318 km from Quito, and boasts lovely beaches with tropical landscapes and climate, the best known of which are Esmeraldas, Atacames, Súa and Río Verde.
		Manta is the most important port city in the Province of Manabí and the one having the greatest economic growth.
		The city of Bahía de Caráquez is located in a sandy peninsula in the western coast of Ecuador.
	www.toppsa.com /news/article276.html (807 words)

	Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo, Ecuador
		I have just returned to the Santo Domingo area from Esmeraldas, a coastal city known for its unique Afro-Ecuadorian population and culture.
		After we made contact with a couple volunteers who worked in the city, the other trainees and I dove into what would become a string of fascinating activities.
		Here is the hurried ending of our trip: From there the whole gang made the even more crazy, night-cattle-truck-ride back to the city, during which we took an unexpected 20min detour onto a gravel road through the mountains to avoid some toll or security checkpoint (from what I could tell).
	www.traveljournals.net /stories/1716.html (826 words)

	DIARY: COMMUNITY VOICES: Letter to ChevronTexaco from Communities in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Drillbits & Tailings ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We write to you from the province of Esmeraldas, in Ecuador, as the committee of those affected by environmental destruction.
		Esmeraldas, with 500,000 inhabitants, was a tropical paradise of abundance and well being, until the infrastructure of the petroleum industry arrived in our city in 1970.
		Esmeraldas is a city of fl and mulatto people, which has been impoverished by the petroleum activities of TEXACO, because it took away our natural subsistence, the jungle, the clean waters of the rivers and the ocean, which was once full of animals which gave us food.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_09/diary.html (605 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Esmeraldas is a county located in the north occidental end of Ecuador.
		Communities of the north occident of Esmeraldas, San Lorenzo and the marginal urban areas of the city of Esmeraldas are the scenario.
		At half hour of ascending in boat from San Lorenzo toward the north end of Esmeraldas is Palma Real, a small and picturesque community inhabited by 250 families that live from fishing and shell gathering.
	innfa.org /noticias/abril04/content/protagonistas_archivos/buzon.htm (1486 words)

	Ecuada -La Costa -Esmeraldas, Manabi, Guayas and El Oro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Otherwise known as the "Green Province", the Esmeraldas occupy the North West corner of the country.
		The city of Esmeraldas, with 120,000 occupants, acts as the centre of the region's lumber trade and is the terminus of the trans Ecuadorean oil pipeline.
		The bustling city is often avoided by tourists, although it has undergone substantial improvements in the last few years.
	www.my-quito.com /ecuador_coast.html (985 words)

	SOS Children's Villages Canada : Esmeraldas
		Esmeraldas is a provincial capital and is located in the northern part of the country and the SOS Children's Village itself is situated...
		Esmeraldas is a provincial capital and is located in the northern part of the country and the SOS Children's Village itself is situated approximately 30 km from Esmeraldas, directly at the entrance of the small village of Atacames.
		In the immediate vicinity are the local public schools, a doctor's surgery, a dentist's surgery and the "City of Boys" with a printer's shop and a bookbinder's shop in which young people can obtain vocational training in order to find a job later on.
	www.soschildrensvillages.ca /html/esmeraldas.html (431 words)

	Map Ecuador, Quito (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Capital city Quito, rivers, maps of roads, main cities and flag.
		Cotopaxi in Andes is highest active volcano in world Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar, San Lorenzo roads ofthe county, ecuadpr Mapof the Region, main cities, guia de cidade, Latin america Aerica pais americano rive r ans mountain.
		Capital city Quito, rivers, maps of roads, equador main cities and flag.
	www.geographicguide.com /america-maps/ecuador.htm (2240 words)

	SOS Children's Villages: Poa
		Esmeraldas Esmeraldas is a provincial capital and is located in the northern part of the country and the SOS Children's Village itself is situated...
		The SOS Children's Village Poá is one of the first SOS Children's Villages in Brazil and is located in the city of the same name, about 15 kilometres east of the centre of São Paulo, a city of many million inhabitants.
		Redondela The SOS Children's Village Redondela is situated in the city of the same name in the northwest of Spain and was built in the early seventies.
	www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/poa.html (480 words)

	Charity Anywhere Foundation
		The local team of 10 set out for the coast Esmeraldas, a four hour drive this past weekend.
		Esmeraldas itself, has the most beautiful country side.
		The name Esmeraldas, which means emeralds, fits the city perfectly, as everything that grows there is the most amazing shade of green, much like that of the stone.
	www.charityanywhere.org /ezzi2004.htm (485 words)

	Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Pictures
		city information and pictures about Esmeraldas with discussion forum, map, real estate and Esmeraldas population & photos
		It is the commercial center of a diversified agricultural region, and considerable trade in bananas, rubber, cattle, cacao, and lumber is conducted.
		The tropical climate here varies little throughout the year, and the city's small white beaches are popular with tourists.
	www.greatestcities.com /South_America/Ecuador/Esmeraldas_city.html (152 words)

	Meetups near Esmeraldas - Meetup.com
		There are currently no top interests within 50.0 miles of Esmeraldas.
		See the top Esmeraldas referrers for Sat Jul 08 08:08:46 EDT 2006.
		Receive a free weekly calendar of upcoming Meetups near your city.
	www.meetup.com /cities/br/esmeraldas (45 words)

	Live Travel Guides: Esmeraldas (Province)
		The African heritage for many of Esmeraldas’ residents comes from a shipwreck off the coast of a slave ship.
		While today's Esmeraldas harbors few emeralds, it does live up to its other name, the "Green Province." The northernmost of the coastal provinces, Esmeraldas is also the greenest, riddled with estuaries, mangroves, and flooded tropical forest.
		There is a whole range in accommodation here as it is one of the closest beaches to Quito and Ibarra and city folk of all income levels love to spend weekends at the beach.
	www.livetravelguides.com /south-america/ecuador/the-coast/esmeraldas (441 words)

	Playa Escondida - Ecological Retreat
		Or the Trans Esmeraldas line, which leaves from their office, one block north of Avenida Colon, on calle 9 de Octubre at 9:45 a.m., and gets you a half hour closer to us in Atacames, making your taxi ride shorter and more economical.
		From Esmeraldas the taxi could cost up to 25 dollars u.s., from Atacames about 15 dollars, and from the airport about 35 dollars.
		If you are coming by bus from Esmeraldas, or from Atacames, Sua, Same or Tonchigue, there are 2 bus lines which make 5 round trips a day.
	www.ecuadorexplorer.com /playaescondida/html/transportation.html (316 words)

	Province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador - guide by SAExplorers.org
		It is also the center of fl culture in the country with a population largely descended from escaped African slaves known as maroons.
		This is Esmeraldas’ beach suburb, hopping but rather littered and dangerous at night.
		The field station, part of a reserve that protects 769 acres of rare high tropical wet forest (up to 800m), accepts individual and group visitors as well as researchers and volunteers.
	www.saexplorers.org /informsheets/ecuador/44269esmeraldas.htm (1017 words)

	Shallow seismogenic zone detected from an offshore-onshore temporary seismic network in the Esmeraldas area (northern ...
		This velocity inversion is characterized by a shadow-zone of ∼1 s on the record-sections, and is interpreted as the result of a velocity contrast between the upper plate structure and the sedimentary and basaltic layer II of the subducted oceanic Nazca plate.
		One-dimensional velocity models are deduced from these wide-angle data and are used for earthquake location in the Esmeraldas area.
		The updip limit of the seismogenic zone is found at a depth of ∼12 km, 35 km eastward of the trench, and the depth of the seismogenic zone below the Esmeraldas city is found at ∼20 km.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2003GC000561.shtml (381 words)

	ITIC :: ICG/PTWS Sessions :: ITSU-XIX :: National Reports ::
		We have begun from an pilot area that in this case is Esmeraldas, where we have actually begun to develop a tsunamis Mitigation Plan and the first step has been to make the city flood map.
		At the moment we have been incorporating Tsunami inundation maps on local urban map of Esmeraldas with vertical resolution of 1-m showing the distribution of constructions and use of land, then we will develop an Mitigation Plan based on vulnerability to tsunami flooding found along Esmeraldas coast.
		Study Geographical Location is Esmeraldas city in northwest of Ecuador.
	ioc3.unesco.org /itic/contents.php?id=63 (1138 words)

	Transportation
		Airlines to the city of Esmeraldas on the coast.
		If you prefer to come overland so you can see the incredible scenery as you drop from 10,000 feet down through the cloud forests of the majestic Andes mountains, by rental car or bus, the journey takes about 6 hours.
		Or the Trans Esmeraldas line, which leaves from the old part of Quito at the terminal terrestre (11:00 a.m.), gets you a half hour closer to us in Atacames, making your taxi ride shorter and more economical.
	modena.intergate.ca /playaescondida/transportation.html (171 words)

	SOS Children's Villages Canada : Tehuacan
		Mombasa The SOS Children's Village of Mombasa was constructed on the northern shore of the bay of Mombasa, 500 meters from the coast.
		Mexico City The first Children's Village of the country was set up in La Villa de Guadalupe, a suburb of Mexico City,
		Jordan This SOS Children's Village is located in the centre of the city and consists of 12 family houses, a Community House and additional buildings,
	www.soschildrensvillages.ca /html/tehuacan.html (405 words)

	Grayline - Ecuador Tours Guayaquil Tour Ecuador Coast Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Full of a great variety of ancestral cultures and typical meals that will satisfy the most demanding palates.
		Discover new sensations in our main ports, like Guayaquil, Manta, Esmeraldas; fundamental motors of the increasing economy of Ecuador.
		Explore Ecuador´s largest city on a Guayaquil tour with Gray Line Ecuador and discover the magic of the coastal culture.
	www.graylineecuador.com /pages/costa_en.htm (188 words)

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