Guayas Province

Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered tae the wast bi Manabí, Santa Elena, an the Paceefic Ocean (as the Gulf o Guayaquil); tae the east bi Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, an Azuay; tae the north bi Los Ríos an Bolívar; an tae the sooth bi El Oro an the Paceefic Ocean.

Wi a population o ower 3 million fowk, it is the maist populous province in Ecuador. It is the fowert lairgest province in the kintra in terms o aurie. The lairgest ceety o Ecuador, Guayaquil, is locatit athin the province.

Geography
Guayas' natural terrain is vera diverse. The province haes nae elevations, except for the Coastal Range, which stairts in Guayaquil an goes tae Manabí. The auries wast o the Coastal Range are desertic, wi an average temperatur o 23 °C. The auries east o the range belang tae the Guayas Watershed. They are quite humid an fertile, especially in the north o the province, wi an average temperatur o 30 °C in the humid saison (December–Mey) an 25 °C in the dry saison (Juin–November).

Hydrography
The maist important river in the province is the Daule River, which flows frae the north tae join the Babahoyo River tae form the Guayas river. The province is pairt o the lairgest river basin in Sooth Americae wast o the Andes Muntains.

Roads
Guayas haes its awn seestem for numberin roads. Housomeivver, this seestem is unkent for maist residents, so it is no regularly uised.

The inter-provincial roads are an aa numbered wi the naitional seestem. Even routes travel north-sooth; odd routes travel east-wast. The inter-provincial roads that cross the province are the follaein:
Ecuador Heich-gate 15 (Vía del Pacífico; Paceefic Wey)
Ecuador Heich-gate 25 (Troncal de la Costa; Coastal Main Wey)
Ecuador Heich-gate 40 (Transversal Austral; Austral Crossin Wey)

 History 
Pre-Hispanic culturs
The native cultur livin in Guayas is the Huancavilca Cultur. Exactly afore the European discovery o Americae, the Huancavilca Cultur wis livin in the province. They are the ancestors o a lairge pairt o the population o the province.

Spaingie conquest an unthirldom
Guayaquil wis foondit on August 14, 1534 (its foundation is celebrated on Julie 25). Durin the Spaingie conquest, Guayaquil became ane o the maist important ports in Sooth Americae. The ceety became free on October 9, 1820, an the Guayaquil Depairtment (ane o the oreeginal subdiveesions o Ecuador) wis foondit suin efterwards. It consistit on the Manabí Province, an the Guayaquil Province, which wis later renamed Guayas. The Guayaquil Province includit the territory o what nou is Peruvian Tumbes, an the day's Los Ríos an El Oro. The provinces wur separatit frae Guayas in 1860 an 1884, respectively.

Urbanization
In recent decades, there haes been a massive exit frae landwart auries tae the main ceeties (especially Guayaquil). This haes creatit a problem in Guayaquil, as maist o the migrants muive tae municipal auries, creatin shantytouns, wi nae services like water or electricity.

 Demographics 
Guayas is the maist populous province in the kintra. The estimatit population o the province in 2003 wis aboot 3,360,000 fowk. A lairge percentage o the population are mestizos, i.e. descendants o baith Spaingie an indigenous fowks, there are an aa big commonties o fowk that descend frae Italians, Lebanese an German fowk.

 Poleetical diveesions
The province is dividit intae 25 cantons. The follaein table leets each wi its population as o the 2001 census, its aurie in square kilometres (km²), an the name o the canton seat or caipital.Cantons of Ecuador. Statoids.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.

 Canton  Pop. (2001)  Aurie (km²)  Seat/Caipital Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (Jujan) 19,982 216  Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (a.k.a. Jujan) Balao 17,262 465  Balao Balzar (San Jacinto de Balzar) 48,470 1,173  Balzar Colimes 21,049 758  Colimes Coronel Marcelino Maridueña 11,054 255  Coronel Marcelino Maridueña Daule 85,148 462  Daule Durán 178,714 339  Durán El Empalme 64,789 711  El Empalme (a.k.a. Velasco Ibarra El Triunfo 34,117 389  El Triunfo General Antonio Elizalde (Bucay) 8,696 152  General Antonio Elizalde (a.k.a. Bucay) Guayaquil 2,039,789 5,237  Guayaquil Isidro Ayora 8,226 492  Isidro Ayora Lomas de Sargentillo 14,194 67  Lomas de Sargentillo Milagro 140,103 401  Milagro Naranjal 53,482 2,015  Naranjal Naranjito 31,756 226  Naranjito Nobol 14,753 128  Nobol (a.k.a. Narcisa de Jesús) Palestina 14,067 194  Palestina Pedro Carbo 36,711 927  Pedro Carbo Playas (General Villamil Playas) 30,045 269  Playas (a.k.a. General Villamil Playas) Salitre (was Urbina Jado) 50,379 390  El Salitre Samborondón 45,476 388  Samborondón Santa Lucía 33,868 348  Santa Lucía Simón Bolívar 20,385 289  Simón Bolívar Yaguachi 47,630 512  Yaguachi (San Jacinto de Yaguachi)

 See an aw 
 Provinces o Ecuador
 Cantons o Ecuador

 References 

 Freemit airtins 
  Gobierno Provincial del Guayas , offeecial wabsteid


Category:Provinces o Ecuador
Category:States an territories established in 1820