Mapasingue is a ''

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'' (neighborhood) of the city of

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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 ...

History

Mapasingue was an ''

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'' in the 19th century. In November 1859, during the first Ecuadorian–Peruvian War, a

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

vian army contingent occupied its lands as a result of an agreement between Peruvian President Ramon Castilla and Supreme Chief of Guayas Guillermo Franco. The peace treaty signed between the two regimes in 1860 was known as the Treaty of Mapasingue. Campos notes that "in effect the Generals Castilla and Franco celebrated an interview about the international matter, aboard the Peruvian steamer ''Tumbes'', and as a result, on November 8, 1859, the Peruvian army made up of 5,000 men disembarked and took up positions in the ''haciendas'' of Mapasingue, Tornero, and Buijo, in the immediacies of Guayaquil. The occupation was explained as a guarantee that Ecuador would fulfill its promises to Peru."

References

Neighborhoods of Guayaquil {{ecuador-geo-stub