Daule, Guayas, Ecuador is a
city
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located in central
Guayas,
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...
, on the
Daule River
The Daule River is a river in Ecuador, in Guayas Province. At Guayaquil, it joins the Babahoyo River; from that point the confluence becomes the Guayas River.
Cities along the river
*El Empalme Canton
*Pichincha Canton
*Balzar, Ecuador, Balzar ...
. It is the
seat
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Types of seat
The ...
of
Daule Canton, created November 26, 1820.
It is called the "rice capital of Ecuador" for its important
rice
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production.
In the 2022
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
it had a population of 161,498 which makes it the fourteenth most populous city in the country.
It is part of the metropolitan area of Guayaquil, because its economic, social and commercial activity is strongly linked to Guayaquil, being a dormitory city for thousands of people who move to Guayaquil by land daily.
Every September 14 in Daule people celebrate "El Señor de Los Milagros" festival.
That day people go to the church called El Señor de los Milagros and at night to watch fireworks. Daule was the name of the indigenous tribe called Daulis.
On February 2, 2022, Pope Francis erected the new
Roman Catholic Diocese of Daule.
Climate
References
External links
Mayor of Daule(City homepage, in Spanish)
Populated places in Guayas Province
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