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City in Guayas, Ecuador
Guayaquil
Santiago de Guayaquil
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Santiago of Guayaquil
Top left: Lighthouse on Santa Ana Hill. Top upper right: Malecón Simón Bolívar (downtown area) from Santa Ana Hill. Top lower right: Guayaquil Metropolitan Cathedral. Middle left: Guayaquil City Office. Middle right: Ninth of October Avenue (Avenida Nueve de Octubre) seen from Malecón 2000. Bottom left: El Carmen Hills. Bottom right: Guayas River and Guayaquil National Unity Bridge (Puente Unidad Nacional).
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Nickname(s):
La Perla del Pacífico English: The Pearl of the Pacific
Motto(s):
Por Guayaquil Independiente English: For Independent Guayaquil
Guayaquil (Spanish pronunciation:[ɡwaʝaˈkil]ⓘ; Quechua: Wayakil), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is located on the west bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil.
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Guayaquil (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaʝaˈkil] ; Quechua: Wayakil), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's...
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The Gulf of Guayaquil is a large body of water of the Pacific Ocean in western South America. Its northern limit is the city of Santa Elena, in Ecuador...
The Guayaquil Conference (Spanish: Conferencia de Guayaquil) was a meeting that took place on July 26-27, 1822 in the port city of Guayaquil (today part...
notably the Los Choneros cartel. Reports of armed attacks throughout Guayaquil and other parts of the country were widespread, occurring primarily in...
The flag of Guayaquil was established after the victory of the emancipatory troops in the independence of the city on October 9, 1820 as the insignia...
The Guayaquil Canton, officially the Municipality of Guayaquil, is a canton in the center of the Guayas Province in western Ecuador. The canton was named...
Ecuador's two regional leagues. For the first nine editions, teams from Guayaquil and Quito qualified to the competition through their professional regional...
The University of Guayaquil (Spanish: Universidad de Guayaquil), known colloquially as the Estatal (i.e., "the State [University]"), is a public university...
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footballer who plays as a forward for Ecuadorian Serie A club Barcelona de Guayaquil and the Ecuador national team. Obando was born in Quito to parents Carlos...
Free Province of Guayaquil was a South American state that emerged between 1820 and 1822 with the independence of the province of Guayaquil from the Spanish...
started to rehabilitate the railway and service was restored between Guayaquil and Quito by 2013. An extensive range of services, primarily for leisure...
The Battle of Guayaquil was the final and pivotal armed confrontation in a struggle for political control of Ecuador. The battle was fought on the outskirts...
The Treaty of Guayaquil, officially the Treaty of Peace Between Colombia and Peru, and also known as the Larrea–Gual Treaty after its signatories, was...
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Guayaquil (officially the Cathedral of Saint Peter) is a cathedral in the center of Guayaquil, Ecuador. The current cathedral...
The competition is almost always held in Guayaquil, Ecuador with endorsement of the Municipality of Guayaquil. The event is usually broadcast for free...
The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed...
Authorities in Guayaquil, who on November 11, 1820, had issued a decree creating the Provincia Libre de Guayaquil (Free Province of Guayaquil), desperately...
such as the February 2021 Ecuadorian prison riots and the September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot, both of which occurred in 2021 and the second considered...
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