Agua Blanca is a commune in Machalilla Parish,

Puerto López Canton Puerto López Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in Manabí Province. Its capital is the town of Puerto López. Its population at the 2001 census was 16,626. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: * Mestizo 80.8% ...

Manabí Province Manabí () is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Portoviejo. The province is named after the Manabí people. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: *Mestizo 66.7% * Montubio 19.2% * Afro-Ecuadorian 6.0% *White 7 ...

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. It is east of the city of Puerto López. The community has a small church and a museum in the center of the village. The church is fantastically painted in bright colours. The area itself is in

Machalilla National Park Machalilla National Park ( es, Parque Nacional Machalilla) is a preserve in the Ecuadorian Manabí Province near Puerto López and the rural parish of Machalilla, a small fishing village in the vicinity of the park. Established in 1979, Machali ...

and it requires a small entry fee for tourists. The park is home to a sulphur lake which smells strongly of rotten eggs. The water and the underlying mud are extremely good for the skin because of the

sulphur Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...

in deposits. Around the lake one frequently sees

humming birds Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics arou ...

feeding at the flowers overhanging the water.

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{{Coord, 1, 32, S, 80, 44, W, region:EC_type:city, display=title Populated places in Manabí Province Puerto López Canton