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  Guayaquil Ecuador
Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city and the “Pearl of the Pacific”, is the nation's main sea port.
Guayaquil is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas.
The gulf of Guayaquil, the monuments, parks, museums, the River Guayas, its modern concept and the exiting nightlife are part of the attractions of this city.
www.ecuadors.org /guayaquil   (376 words)

  
 Guayaquil - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GUAYAQUIL, Or Santiago De Guayaquil, a city and port of Ecuador, capital of the province of Guayas, on the right bank of the Guayas river, 33 m.
Guayaquil is also the seat of a university corporation with faculties of law and medicine.
Santiago de Guayaquil was founded on St James's day, the 25th of July 1535, by Sebastian de Benalcazar, but was twice abandoned before its permanent settlement in 1537 by Francesco de Oreliana.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Guayaquil   (772 words)

  
 Guayaquil
RCHDIOCESE OF Guayaquil, the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas, is situated on the right shore of the Lower Guayas, the estuary of which expands into the Gulf of Guayaquil, and affords the best harbour on the Western South American coast.
Guayaquil has a State national college (a branch institution of the University of Quito).
The Bishopric of Guayaquil was established on 16 February, 1837, by the separation of this portion from the Diocese of Cuenca.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/guayaquil.html   (386 words)

  
 Guayaquil Ecuador Guayaquil Hotels Guayaquil Travel Agencies Guayaquil Spanish Schools Guayaquil Ecuador
Guayaquil is situated on the Guayas River, near the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, in Ecuadors low-lying Pacific litoral, (altitude 4 m), deliciously tropical climate.
Educational centers in Guayaquil include the University of Guayaquil (1867), the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (1962), the "Vicente Rocafuerte" Lay University of Guayaquil (1847), and a polytechnic institute (1958).
Guayaquil is the "gateway" to the most beautiful beaches of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, and one of the best sports fishing places in the world.
www.ecuaworld.com /guayaquil.htm   (420 words)

  
 Travel in Guayaquil - Ecuador - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
The city is situated on the Guayas River, near the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, in the country's low-lying Pacific littoral.
The city of Guayaquil, which is the economic, commercial and financial core of the country, is situated on the Gulf of Guayaquil along the important Guayas River.
Guayaquil has interesting museums such as those of the Central Bank of Ecuador, of the Casa de la Cultura, of the Pacific Bank, and of the Municipality, among others.
www.americatravelling.net /ecuador/guayaquil/guayaquil_culture.htm   (322 words)

  
 Information about Guayaquil. Guayaquil profile. Andes culture and attractions.
Guayaquil serves as the Metropolitan see to the Roman Catholic province of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil.
Guayaquil is also an Anglican Communion see and has a Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In 1687, Guayaquil was attacked and looted by English and French pirates under George d'Hout (English) and Picard and Groniet (Frenchmen).
www.mundoandino.com /Ecuador/Guayaquil   (842 words)

  
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Guayaquil, the capital of the Guayas province, is the largest and most populous city in Ecuador.
The gulf of Guayaquil, the river, the monuments, museums, parks, and its exhilarating nightlife are part of the attractions of this city.
Guayaquil is famous for its great sport facilities, which include one of the 20 biggest soccer stadiums in the world that holds up to 85,000 people.
www.exploringecuador.com /articulos/nuevos/guayaquil_ecuador.htm   (2288 words)

  
 Guayaquil - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1,508,444), capital of Guayas prov., W Ecuador, on the Guayas River near its mouth on the Gulf of Guayaquil, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
Guayaquil was founded by the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Benalcázar in 1535.
Because of its hot and humid climate the city was frequently scourged by yellow fever until the sanitation work of the U.S. surgeon-general William C. Gorgas.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-guayaqui.html   (349 words)

  
 Guayaquil, Ecuador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guayaquil is on the right margin of the Guayas River, which flows into the Gulf of Guayaquil in the Pacific Ocean.
Guayaquil is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of Guayaquil Canton.
Guayaquil was founded on July 25, 1531 with the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil by Conquistador Francisco de Orellana.
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 Guayaquil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guayaquil is the main seaport and commercial city, founded in 1537 by Francisco de Orellana.
Guayaquil´s seaport opened in 1964 and now handles approximately 90% of Ecuador's imports and nearly 50% of its exports.
Guayaquil is more known more for its commercial prowess than as a place to spend vacations.
www.ecuadordiscover.com /info/guayaquil.htm   (304 words)

  
 Guayaquil, Ecuador's principle sea port & Galapagos Islands cruises   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guayaquil is located around the mouth of the Guayas river, where it flows into the Gulf of Guayaquil, a sheltered natural port on the Pacific Ocean.
Guayaquil is at 2.21°S 79.90°W, about 250 km from the Ecuadorian capital of Quito.
Among the notable landmarks are a 16th-century church in the old district of Las Peñas and a monument commemorating the Guayaquil Conference (1822) between the South American statesmen Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar.
www.cruisesingalapagos.com /ecuador/guayaquil.htm   (248 words)

  
 Ecuador Guayaquil city overview about Guayaquil Ecuador
It is the commercial and industrial center of Ecuador and lies on the west bank of the river Guayas about 60 km from its outflow in the Gulf of Guayaquil.
Guayaquil´s churches as “La Merced” or “San Francisco”, the beautiful cemetery below “Cerro el Carmen”, several museums, the Botanical Gardens and parcs (the Parque Bolivia in front of the Cathedral is filled with tame iguanas) are also definitely worth a visit.
The foundation of Guayaquil is celebrated on Jul 24-25 and the city´s independence on Oct 9-12.
www.inguayaquil.com /cityoverview.html   (903 words)

  
 Welcome to Fly Latin America . Net: Flights to Central and South America!
It is situated on the west bank of the Guayas River, 45 miles (72 km) upstream from the Gulf of Guayaquil of the Pacific Ocean.
It is the terminus of Guayaquil's overseas ocean traffic, handling some 90 percent of the country's imports and 50 percent of its exports.
Guayaquil is the seat of national (1867) and Catholic (1962) universities, of Vicente Rocafuerte University (founded 1847, university status 1966), and of a polytechnic school (1958).
www.flylatinamerica.com /ecuador/guayaquil.htm   (511 words)

  
 Guayas - What's New - Ecuador
This is a province of Ecuador, and its capital, Guayaquil, is one of the most important cities in the country, with a population of around 2,600,000 inhabitants, while the province has 3,309,034 and a surface area of 20,902 km2.
Its borders to the north are with Manabi and part of Los Rios, to the south with El Oro and the Gulf of Guayaquil, to the east with Los Rios, Chimborazo, Cañar and Azuay, and to the west with the Pacific Ocean.
Its capital, Guayaquil, is undeniably its economic, industrial and commercial center, which has meant that many people from other provinces have been attracted to it, hoping to find better jobs and quality of life, so that it has become the most populated province in the country.
www.enjoyecuador.net /english/what-new/guayaquil-guayas.shtml   (857 words)

  
 Salinas Ecuador beach full day tour + llunch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guayaquil's new ravishing waterfront is right next to Santa Ana Hill, its oldest neighborhood, and iguanas roam freely at Bolivar Park in the heart of downtown.
Guayaquil is Ecuador's natural port, and its largest city with a population of two million.
The people of Guayaquil are outgoing and open, they enjoy their city and are fiercely proud of their heritage.
www.galapagosvoyage.com /interna~i~2~inc~tour~idTour~165~idSeccion~152.asp   (654 words)

  
 La Costa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guayaquil is the largest city in Ecuador having more than 1.5 million inhabitants in 1990, which represented about 15.6% of the country's entire population (INEC 1994:1).
The agricultural region around Guayaquil is incredibly important to the local and national economies.
Although I have spent almost no time in Guayaquil (in reality it was about 6 hours in the bus station and a couple hours in the airport) I feel like all of the exaggeration about how awful Guayaquil is probably over stated and is propagated by regional differences and expectations.
earth-art.com /ecuador/costa.htm   (812 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Guayaquil, South America (South American Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Guayaquil was founded by the Spanish conquistador SebastiAn de BenalcAzar in 1535.
The occupation of the city in 1821 by patriot forces under Antonio JosE de Sucre was the first major step in Ecuador's final liberation from Spain.
The fateful meeting between SimOn BolIvar and JosE de San MartIn that was to influence the course of independence in South America took place in Guayaquil in 1822.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Guayaqui.html   (323 words)

  
 Washington Group International - Project Profiles - Machala Power Plant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The new plant is located in southern Ecuador 20 miles from the Port of Machala along the coast of the Gulf of Guayaquil.
The gas field that supplies fuel to the new power plant is located in the Gulf of Guayaquil near the coast and is connected to the plant by a 40-mile long pipeline.
The Gulf is the largest estuary ecosystem on the Pacific coast of South America.
www.wgint.com /project.php?id=18   (1617 words)

  
 EPAT: Alteration of Coastal Ecosystems
Wastewater discharged from shrimp ponds impairs water quality in the Gulf of Guayaquil and other coastal waters, which are already threatened by pollution from urban, industrial, and agricultural sources.
Many maricultural operations around the Gulf of Guayaquil are semi-extensive, with pond stocking rates ranging from 10,000 to 50,000 PL/ha.
Solorzano (1989) finds that emissions of untreated domestic and industrial waste from the City of Guayaquil is a principal cause of high bacterial contamination, low dissolved oxygen content, and high nutrient concentrations in the Daule and Guayas Rivers, which are the principal freshwater tributaries of the Gulf of Guayaquil.
www.wisc.edu /epat/.res-price/.shrimp/.format/.alter.html   (999 words)

  
 Doing Business in Ecuador
Guayaquil won the 2003 U.N. award as one of the most transformed cities in the world out of 278 candidates.
The city is strategically situated on the equator at the edge of the Gulf of Guayaquil where there are huge untapped reserves of oil and gas.
The dynamic mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, has transformed the city from an unattractive port city into a clean, modern and efficient commercial and tourist center by promoting fiscal and legal accountability, economic reforms and good governance.
www.wtc-no.org /programs/2004/ecuador5-12.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Geography of Ecuador - Regions, Climate
In the southern part of Guayas Province, east of the Gulf of Guayaquil, the narrow coastal plain is only fifteen to twenty kilometers wide.
At Cabo Blanco, where the Gulf of Guayaquil begins, the main current veers to the west; a branch continues northward to Cabo Pasado, in Manabí Province, where it also turns westward to merge with the main current near the Galápagos Islands.
Arid conditions prevail on the border with Peru south of the Gulf of Guayaquil.
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 Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves are an ecoregion located in the Gulf of Guayaquil in South America, in northern Peru and southern Ecuador.
The ecoregion is limited by plant formations of mangrove (Rhizophora spp.) forest that occur at the confluence of many rivers emptying into the Gulf of Guayaquil and the Pacific Ocean.
These forests are adapted to permanently flooded conditions and the resulting environments, which offer little available oxygen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Guayaquil-Tumbes_mangroves   (203 words)

  
 GULF OF GUAYAQUIL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is the opinion of the owners of the GULF of GUAYAQUIL that the boats and lifebuoys washed up at Fishguard Pembroke and belonging to the Steamer was a result of an accident owing to bad weather.
The Gulf of Guayaquil is due at St Vincent on Monday.
A Greenock correspondent states the owners of the Gulf of Guayaquil having recieved no tidings of the vessel have today given up all hope of her being afloat.
www.old-merseytimes.co.uk /GofG.html   (285 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.
The region’s climate varies from hot and arid on the Santa Elena peninsula to hot and humid in the alluvial plains and interiors between Esmeraldas and the gulf of Guayaquil.
Guayaquil is Ecuador’s largest city, principle port and the economic center of Ecuador.
www.in-quito.com /coast-region.htm   (507 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves (NT1413)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves (NT1413)
The Gulf of Guayaquil is the largest estuarine ecosystem on the Pacific coast of South America.
The shores around the Gulf of Guayaquil are home to 13 species of mammals and reptiles, including the American crocodile.
www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt1413.html   (418 words)

  
 GUAYAQUIL, or SANTIAGO... - Online Information article about GUAYAQUIL, or SANTIAGO...
Guayaquil is also the seat of a university See also:
The exports of the province are almost wholly transported on these rivers, and are shipped either at Guayaquil, or at Puna, its deep-water port, 62 m.
anchor at Puna, 40 M. from Guayaquil, where cargoes and passengers are transferred to lighters and tenders.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GRA_GUI/GUAYAQUIL_or_SANTIAGO_DE_GUAYAQ.html   (1167 words)

  
 Guayaquil travel guide
The eyes of the world are watching this city more and more closely as of late, since it has been subjected to a major renovation.
The city is situated on the Guayas River, near the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, in the country's low-lying Pacific litoral.
It is Ecuador's largest city and its leading economic center; major industries include shrimp fishing, petroleum refining, food processing, and the manufacture of machinery and consumer goods.
www.world66.com /southamerica/ecuador/guayaquil   (446 words)

  
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Guayaquil is on the west coast of the country at the mouth of the Gulf of Guayaquil.
In 1922 Guayaquil was the scene of the fateful meeting between Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, the principal leaders of the struggle for South American independence.
Guayaquil is located in the coastal region of Ecuador.
www.sistercitiesofhouston.org /cities/guayaquil/guayaquil.htm   (1484 words)

  
 MBG: Research: Ecuador: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Between the coastal range and the Andes, south of the equator, is the broad, nearly level Guayas River basin; north of the equator is the valley of the Esmeraldas River.
In the estuary and gulf are a number of low-lying islands, the largest of which is Puná Island.
South of Guayaquil to the Peruvian border there is no coastal range of mountains, and there the coastal region is a narrow lowland strip 25 km wide between the Andes and the Gulf of Guayaquil.
www.mobot.org /mobot/research/ecuador/geography.shtml   (1623 words)

  
 Gulf of Guayaquil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gulf of Guayaquil is a large body of water of the Pacific Ocean in western South America.
The gulf takes its name from the city of Guayaquil.
Rivers of both Ecuador and Peru empty in the Gulf of Guayaquil, like the Guayas River, the Jubones River, the Zarumilla River and the Tumbes River.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Guayaquil   (113 words)

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