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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Guayaquil is the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Guayas and the seat of the namesake canton. (In Ecuador, a cant?n (canton) is a second-order subnational entity below a first-order 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 Cat?lica de Santiago de Guayaquil http://www.ucsg.edu.ec
• Escuela Superior Polit?cnica del Litoral http://www.espol.edu.ec
• Universidad Vicente Rocafuerte http://www.ulaicavr.edu.ec
• Universidad Esp?ritu 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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The city is the center of Ecuador's fishing and manufacturing industries.

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The city's airport, Sim?n Bol?var International Airport (IATA abbr.: GYE), has undergone renovations in the past years.

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Famous people from Guayaquil include painter Enrique Tabara, painter F?lix Arauz, painter and draftsman Juan Villafuerte, poet Jos? Joaqu?n de Olmedo, scholar Benjam?n Urrutia and tennis player Pancho Segura.

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City: :For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation)...

Sea port: Redirect Port...

Guayas River: The Guayas River is a river in western Ecuador. It gives name to the Guayas Province, and it is the most important river in South America that does not flow into the Atlantic Ocean or any of its seas. Its total length, including the Daule River, is 389 km....