The Guayaquil Canton, officially the Municipality of Guayaquil, is a
canton in the center of the
Guayas Province
Guayas () is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by ManabÃ, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean (as the Gulf of Guayaquil); to the east by Los RÃos, BolÃvar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Rà ...
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: ' ...
. 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
*
Tarqui
*Urdaneta
*Ximena
Rural parishes
*Juan Gomez Rendon (Progreso)
*Morro
*
Posorja
*
Puná
*Tenguel
Demographics
Ethnic groups as of the
Ecuadorian census of 2010:
*
Mestizo 70.8%
*
White
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11.4%
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Afro-Ecuadorian 10.9%
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Montubio 5.0%
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Indigenous
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1.4%
*Other 0.6%
References
Cantons of Guayas Province
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