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
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, 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
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Tarqui Tarqui may refer to:
* Tarqui, Huila, Colombia
* Tarqui, Cuenca Canton, Ecuador
* Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton, Ecuador
* Tarqui, Pastaza Canton, Ecuador
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*Urdaneta
*Ximena
Rural parishes
*Juan Gomez Rendon (Progreso)
*Morro
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Posorja Posorja is a small village in Ecuador that lies about 120 km from the city Guayaquil at the delta of the Guayas River
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Puná
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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:
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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%
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White
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11.4%
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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%
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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%
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Indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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1.4%
*Other 0.6%
References
Cantons of Guayas Province
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