Nombre: Matías Holguín

Guayaquil my dear city

Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the capital city of the Guayas
Province and head of the homonymous canton. It is the second most
populous city in Ecuador, after Quito, the capital of the country, with a
population of 2.7 million inhabitants according to the population
projections of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). It is
the main economic, cultural and financial resource center of the
Ecuadorian coast.
The city is divided into 16 urban parishes, although within a new municipal
administration, its organization consists of 74 sectors. The city of
Guayaquil covers an area of 347 km²,
of which 316 km², equivalent to 91.9%
of the total, belong to the mainland
(soil); while the remaining 29 km²,
equivalent to 8.1%, belong to the
bodies of water that include rivers and
estuaries. The Guayaquil conurbation,
which is the metropolitan area of
Guayaquil, beyond the limits of the
urban agglomeration, includes the
cities of Daule, Durán, Isidro Ayora,
Lomas de Sargentillo, Milagro, Nobol, Samborondón, Salitre and Yaguachi,
giving it a consolidated population of 3,113,725 inhabitants.
Definitively founded in 1547 as a shipyard and commercial port at the
service of the Spanish Crown, as "Santiago de Guayaquil", after several
other founding attempts, it has served as the main point in the nation's
economy.10 It has been the seat of large revolutions and uprisings in the
course of history, being the first Ecuadorian city to definitively obtain its
independence from Spain in 1820. Later it was the capital of the Free
Province of Guayaquil, which was later annexed to Gran Colombia. Since
1830 it has been part of the Republic of Ecuador as an important
economic and political hub.