The Guayaquil Canton, officially the Municipality of Guayaquil, is a canton in the center of the

Guayas Province Guayas () is a coastal Provinces of Ecuador, province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí Province, Manabí, Santa Elena Province, Ecuador, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean (as the Gulf of Guayaquil); to the east by Los Ríos Pr ...

in western

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

. The canton was named after its seat, the city of

Guayaquil , motto = Por Guayaquil Independiente en, For Independent Guayaquil , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Ecuador#South America , pushpin_re ...

, the most populous city in Ecuador.

Political divisions

The canton is divided into 16 urban parishes and 5 rural parishes. The urban parishes make up the city of Guayaquil. Urban parishes *Ayacucho *Bolivar (Sagario) *Carbo (Concepcion) *Chongón *Febres Cordero *Garcia Moreno *Letamendi *Nueva de Octubre *Olmedo (San Alejo) *Pascuales *Roca *Rocafuerte *Sucre *

Tarqui Tarqui may refer to: * Tarqui, Huila, Colombia * Tarqui, Cuenca Canton, Ecuador * Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton, Ecuador * Tarqui, Pastaza Canton, Ecuador {{geodis ...

*Urdaneta *Ximena Rural parishes *Juan Gomez Rendon (Progreso) *Morro *

Posorja Posorja is a small village in Ecuador that lies about 120 km from the city Guayaquil at the delta of the Guayas River The Guayas River also called Rio Guayas is a major river in western Ecuador. It gives name to Guayas Province and is the mo ...

* Puná *Tenguel

Demographics

Ethnic groups as of the

Ecuadorian census The Ecuadorian census is conducted by the governmental institution known as ''INEC'', ''Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos'' (National Institute of Statistics and Census).INEC The census in Ecuador is conducted every 10 years, and its obj ...

of 2010: *

Mestizo (; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed Ethnic groups in Europe, European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also r ...

70.8% *

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on ...

11.4% *

Afro-Ecuadorian Afro-Ecuadorians or Afroecuatorianos (Spanish), are Ecuadorians of predominantly Sub-Saharan African descent. History and background Most Afro-Ecuadorians are the descendants of enslaved Africans who were transported by Spanish slavers to Ecuad ...

10.9% *

Montubio Montubio is the term used to describe the mestizo people of the countryside of coastal Ecuador. The Montubio make up 7.4% of the country's population and were recognized as a distinct ethnicity by the government in the spring of 2001 after prot ...

5.0% *

Indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...

1.4% *Other 0.6%

References

Cantons of Guayas Province {{Ecuador-geo-stub