Guayaquil

:This article is about the city of Guayaquil. For the canton named after this city, see Guayaquil (canton).

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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 right 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.

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City - Ecuador - Sea port - Guayas River - Gulf of Guayaquil - Pacific Ocean - Quito - 2001

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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.)

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Capital - Guayas - Namesake canton - Canton - Subnational entity - Province

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Some of Guayaquil's main universities are:

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• Universidad de Guayaquil http://www.ug.edu.ec
• Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil http://www.ucsg.edu.ec
• Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral http://www.espol.edu.ec
• Universidad Vicente Rocafuerte http://www.ulaicavr.edu.ec
• Universidad Espíritu Santo http://www.uees.edu.ec

Guayaquil serves as the Metropolitan see to the Roman Catholic province of the Archdiocese of Guayaquil. Her cathedral San Pedro is the motherchurch to the Catholics of the region, who in 2005 comprised about 94% of the population of Guayaquil, at least in theory (though the figures may need a more realistic revision).There are also many religious buildings of several other denominations, including an Anglican Communion see and a Mormon temple - that is, a Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plus several Stake Centers and Meeting Houses of the same church. There is also an Islamic Center. There are numerous Baptist and Evangelical churches, and Kingdom Halls of the Watchtower Society.

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See - Roman Catholic - Archdiocese of Guayaquil - Cathedral - Motherchurch - Anglican Communion - Mormon temple - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Baptist - Evangelical - Watchtower Society

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The city is the center of Ecuador's fishing and manufacturing industries.

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The city's airport, Simón Bolívar International Airport (IATA abbr.: GYE), has undergone renovations in the past years.

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Simón Bolívar International Airport - IATA

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Famous people from Guayaquil include painter Enrique Tabara, painter Félix Arauz, painter and draftsman Juan Villafuerte, poet José Joaquín de Olmedo, scholar Benjamín Urrutia and tennis player Pancho Segura.

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Enrique Tabara - Félix Arauz - Juan Villafuerte - José Joaquín de Olmedo - Benjamín Urrutia - Pancho Segura

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