Daule, Guayas, Ecuador is a
city
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located in central
Guayas,
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: ' ...
, 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
* Pichincha, Ecuador
* Balzar
*Colimes
* Palestina
* Santa L ...
. It is the
seat of
Daule Canton, created November 26 of 1820.
It is called the "rice capital of Ecuador" for its important
rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...
production.
In the 2010
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
it had a population of 65,145 inhabitants which makes it the nineteenth 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.
References
External Links
Mayor of Daule(City homepage, in Spanish)
Populated places in Guayas Province
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