Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno is a

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located in Guayas province in

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. It lies along the boundary between Guayas and Los Ríos provinces. Its official name was given in honor of Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (1859 – 1951), who served three times as the president of Ecuador. It is also known as Juján,. Retrieved 4 November 2009. a name is taken from a local

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. It was founded in 1892 by José Domingo Delgado (1844–1938). The official population as of the 2010 census was 8,343 and as of the 2022 census its population has declined to 6,035 . It is the

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of the Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno

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(also known as Juján), which was created in 1986.

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Populated places in Guayas Province {{Ecuador-geo-stub

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