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Mariquita, a young woman from Guayaquil in c.1847-48, by Adele de Dombasle. Guayaquil was founded on 25 July 1538 [7] by Spanish conqueror Francisco de Orellana in the location of a native village. He named it as Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil ("Most Noble and Most Loyal City of Santiago de Guayaquil"). [8]
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 after its seat, the city of Guayaquil , the most populous city in Ecuador.
The museum has the following rooms: [8] Pre-Hispanic Room: ceramic, metal, and stone objects and handicrafts from the Valdivia, Machalilla and Chorrera cultures; Colonial Room: includes Spanish firearms, a diorama from the old church of Santo Domingo, the layouts of Guayaquil traced between 1170 and 1772 by Francisco Requena and Ramon Garcia de Leon y Pizarro, and a scale model of the city ...
The German School Guayaquil inaugurated a second Kindergarten in Samborondon on April 13, 2009. There are 23 public elementary schools in the Canton. [7] The first university located in the suburb was the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, which opened its doors on 1994. [8] Another university, Ecotec has relocated to the suburb.
Following the Great Fire of Guayaquil , widespread belief that tall buildings encouraged the spread of fires. This led to the removal of the clock and eventual dismantling of the tower on the roof that the clock was held in. In 1905, the clock was moved to a building in the new Mercado de la Orilla. [10]
No. City Province 2010 Census 2001 Census 1990 Census 1 Guayaquil: Guayas: 2,278,691: 1,985,379: 1,508,444 2 Quito: Pichincha: 1,607,734: 1,399,378: 1,100,847 3 Cuenca
Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil (Guayaquil Municipal Library) is a public library in Guayaquil, Ecuador and is operated by the municipal government. External links
Tarqui is an urban parish in Guayaquil Canton, Guayas, Ecuador, named after the Battle of Tarqui. Tarqui is the largest and most populous parish in Guayaquil. It occupies the northern half of the city. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 835,486 inhabitants, 42.9% of the population in the city.