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KNOWLEDGE OF Guayaquil
Santiago de Guayaquil, or just Guayaquil, is the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main sea port. Guayaquil is on the west margin of the Guayas River, which flows into the Gulf of Guayaquil in the Pacific Ocean. Guayaquil is at 2.21°S 79.90°W, about 250 km south-southwest of the capital of Ecuador, Quito. According to the most recent census (2001), its population was 1,985,379.
Guayaquil is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton. (In Ecuador, a cantón (canton) is a second-order subnational entity below a first-order province.)
Some of Guayaquil's main universities are:
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Universidad de Guayaquil
Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil
Universidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Guayaquil serves as the Metropolitan see to the Roman Catholic province of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. Its cathedral San Pedro is the motherchurch to the Catholics of the region. The majority of the population of the city identifies itself as belonging to the Catholic Church.
Because of the historical Ecuadorian freedom of conscience there are also many religious buildings of most other faiths, especially those involved in missionary work. Guayaquil is also an Anglican Communion see and has a Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The city is the center of Ecuador's fishing and manufacturing industries.
The city's airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport (IATA abbr.: GYE), has undergone renovations in the past years.
Famous people from Guayaquil include Master painters Enrique Tábara, Félix Arauz, Juan Villafuerte, Luis Molinari and Theo Constanté; poet José Joaquín de Olmedo, scholar Benjamín Urrutia and tennis player Pancho Segura.
Guayaquil was founded on July 25 (see note below), 1531 with the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana. Even before it was founded by the Spanish, it already existed as a native village.
Note - July 25 is the legal holiday in Guayaquil. Historians have not yet reached a consensus about the date of Guayaquil's foundation or founder. The city might have been founded more than once. Another possible founder might be Diego de Almagro.
In 1600 Guayaquil had a population of about 2,000 people; by 1700 the city had a population of over 10,000.
In 1687, Guayaquil was attacked and looted by English and French pirates under George d'Hout (English) and Picard and Groniet (Frenchmen). Of the more than 260 pirates, 35 died and 46 were wounded; 75 defenders of the city died and more than 100 were wounded. The pirates took local women as concubines. Quito paid the ransom demanded by the pirates with the condition they release the hostages and not burn Guayaquil.
In 1709, the English captains Woodes Rogers, Etienne Courtney, and William Dampier along with 110 other pirates, looted Guayaquil and demanded ransom; however, they suddenly departed without collecting the ransom after an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.
Guayaquil is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton. (In Ecuador, a cantón (canton) is a second-order subnational entity below a first-order province.)
Some of Guayaquil's main universities are:
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Universidad de Guayaquil
Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil
Universidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Guayaquil serves as the Metropolitan see to the Roman Catholic province of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. Its cathedral San Pedro is the motherchurch to the Catholics of the region. The majority of the population of the city identifies itself as belonging to the Catholic Church.
Because of the historical Ecuadorian freedom of conscience there are also many religious buildings of most other faiths, especially those involved in missionary work. Guayaquil is also an Anglican Communion see and has a Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The city is the center of Ecuador's fishing and manufacturing industries.
The city's airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport (IATA abbr.: GYE), has undergone renovations in the past years.
Famous people from Guayaquil include Master painters Enrique Tábara, Félix Arauz, Juan Villafuerte, Luis Molinari and Theo Constanté; poet José Joaquín de Olmedo, scholar Benjamín Urrutia and tennis player Pancho Segura.
Guayaquil was founded on July 25 (see note below), 1531 with the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana. Even before it was founded by the Spanish, it already existed as a native village.
Note - July 25 is the legal holiday in Guayaquil. Historians have not yet reached a consensus about the date of Guayaquil's foundation or founder. The city might have been founded more than once. Another possible founder might be Diego de Almagro.
In 1600 Guayaquil had a population of about 2,000 people; by 1700 the city had a population of over 10,000.
In 1687, Guayaquil was attacked and looted by English and French pirates under George d'Hout (English) and Picard and Groniet (Frenchmen). Of the more than 260 pirates, 35 died and 46 were wounded; 75 defenders of the city died and more than 100 were wounded. The pirates took local women as concubines. Quito paid the ransom demanded by the pirates with the condition they release the hostages and not burn Guayaquil.
In 1709, the English captains Woodes Rogers, Etienne Courtney, and William Dampier along with 110 other pirates, looted Guayaquil and demanded ransom; however, they suddenly departed without collecting the ransom after an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.
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