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42 unusual facts about Guayaquil


Alejo Lascano Bahamonde

Lascano's body rests in a sumptuous mausoleum in the General Cemetery of Guayaquil.

Alejo left Guayaquil on February 1, 1857 and entered the Medicine School of Paris, considered the first scientific center of the world, studying with professor Geienau de Mussy.

For that reason in 1869, García Moreno appointed Lascano Doctor for Life of the Hospital Civil de Guayaquil.

Alfredo Palacio Moreno

Alfredo Palacio Moreno (Loja, August 9, 1912 – Guayaquil, April 20, 1998) was an Ecuadorian sculptor and painter.

Amazilia Hummingbird

It is generally common, and can regularly be seen even in major cities such as Lima and Guayaquil.

AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Augusto Porozo

Augusto Jesús Porozo Caicedo (born 13 April 1974 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian football (soccer) defender who played for Club Social y Deportivo Macará.

Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy

He was born in Guayaquil to Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, also former president of Ecuador, and Laura Monroy Garaycoa.

Coat of arms of Ecuador

In 1841 it was built in Guayaquil and was the first riverine steamship built on the South American west coast.

Daniel Viteri

Daniel Jimmy Viteri Vinces (born December 12, 1981 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadoran footballer who plays for LDU Quito.

David Quiroz

Mario David Quiroz Villón (born September 8, 1982 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian footballer who currently plays for Olmedo.

Eduard Ortgies

Ortgies acted as his agent for a few years, but Wallis fell ill and went into a gradual decline up to his 1878 death at the hospital of Guayaquil.

Enner Valencia

Valencia came to Guayaquil to try out in Emelec in 2008 from Caribe Junior's youth system, the same team where Ecuador star Antonio Valencia played on his early years, .

Galo Galecio

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil, and received a scholarship to study printmaking and mural painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico from 1944-1946.

George Febres

George Febres (born Jorge Xavier Febres Cordero Icaza, Guayaquil, 10 September 1943 – 1996) was an Ecuadorian-born painter, internationally acclaimed for his wildly imaginative style and humorous "visual puns."

Geovanni Camacho

Geovanni Francisco Camacho Paredes (born December 15, 1984 in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a football goalkeeper that plays for Macará.

Gonzalo Amancha

He got his first job as an artist at the age of 10, when his uncle, who was a painter, took him to Guayaquil to work for Virgilio Jaime Salinas who was well known for creating the first "Juan Pablo" (a comic strip character famous in Guayaquil).

Guayaquil Marathon

The Guayaquil Marathon is hosted by the Guayaquil municipality and is certified by the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS).

The Guayaquil Marathon, or Maratón de Guayaquil, is an annual marathon road race which takes place in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the first Sunday of October.

Humberto Moré

He was a contemporary of Enrique Tábara, Luis Molinari and Estuardo Maldonado, a group of young artists who began an art revival in Guayaquil in the 1950s an 60's.

Jimmy Montanero

Nicknamed "El Mormón", he played all of his career for Barcelona Sporting Club from Guayaquil (1979–1999).

Jorge Swett

He created more than 100 murals during his lifetime, many of which can be seen in buildings throughout his hometown, such as the Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, the Social Security Fund Building, the old Simon Bolivar Airport, the Children's Hospital, the Catholic University of Santiago of Guayaquil, Ecuavisa, among others.

Jorge Velarde

Velarde is a co-founder of Artefactoría, a group of artists that began working together in 1982 after graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil.

José Faustino Sánchez Carrión

He later participated in the diplomatic mission which traveled to Guayaquil to invite Simon Bolivar to Peru.

José Luis Cortez

José Luis Cortéz (born November 21, 1979 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian footballer currently playing for Club Deportivo Quevedo.

Juan Carlos Paredes

The "Hormiga", having impressed with his speed and ability, signed for Guayaquil side Barcelona for the 2013 Season.

Judith Gutiérrez

Gutierrez held numerous individual exhibitions and is represented in many galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Pasadena, Washington, Great Britain, Osaka, Guayaquil, Quito, Mexico City, Munich, Havana, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Panamá, and São Paulo.

Las Balsas

They were then floated down river to the naval base at Guayaquil for construction.

Liberal Revolution of 1895

The Revolution is often seen as marking the birth of modern Ecuador, with a new power structure that favored the Liberal Party, and new infrastructure projects such as the construction of a railway line between Quito and Guayaquil.

Luis Burgos Flor

Every year in late July, Burgos Flor puts together cultural events with art shows, poetry, and historical facts commemorating the anniversary of the founding of Guayaquil, his hometown.

Luis Molinari

Luis Molinari (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador 1929 - d. Quito, Ecuador 1994) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a group of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníbal Villacís.

Luis Rodolfo Peñaherrera Bermeo

He painted the mural "Apotheosis of Guayaquil" on the ceiling of the City Hall, which portrays past and present iconic figures from Guayaquilean history.

Marcos Restrepo

Artefactoría formed in 1982 by a group of painters from the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil who are inspired by the surrealists and the unconscious.

Mercedes de Jesús Molina

After the death of her father, two years later, Mercedes and her mother moved to Guayaquil.

Metrovia

Metrovia is a bus rapid transit system that has been developed in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and is now a widely used means of transportation in the city.

Miss Teen Earth 2012

Miss Teen Earth 2012, the 1st edition of the Miss Teen Earth beauty pageant, take place at the Aula Magna of the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador on Friday, September 14, from 21:00 hours and will be delivered by TeleMilagro-Univisa, live and direct satellite Television.

Miss United Continent

The first Miss Continente Americano Pageant held in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2006.

This annual beauty pageant, which began in 2006 as Miss Continente Americano (Miss American Continent), and is based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Oswaldo Muñoz Mariño

He co-wrote a study titled Ecuador en gráficos (Ecuador in graphs), which he traveled to Guayaquil to present with the help of Benjamín Carrión.

Otto Arosemena

Arosemena was born in Guayaquil to Luis Alberto Arosemena Tola and Mercedes Gómez Santistevan.

Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

UCSG was created on May 17, 1962, at the request of the board of Catholic college pro presiding Bishop Cesar Antonio Mosquera Corral, Archbishop of Guayaquil, the jurist Dr. Leonidas Ortega Moreira and P. Joachim Flor Vásconez SJ, who were its founding authorities, as Chancellor, first president and director, respectively.

Xavier Blum Pinto

Xavier Blum Pinto (born 1957 in Guayaquil) is an Ecuadorian artist.


Adiantum alarconianum

was described as occurring in Guayas Province, near Guayaquil, and in Mexico, but the latter reference is now held to be an error.

Club Sport Emelec

The club was found after an assembly of employees at the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, an electric company in Guayaquil, decided to start an amateur sports league.

Elia Liut

The Centennial Board began thinking of ways to get the plane from the coastal city of Guayaquil to the mountainous city of Cuenca.

Floreana Island

In 1929, Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch arrived in Guayaquil from Berlin to settle on Floreana, and sent messages back encouraging others.

Gulf of Guayaquil

Rivers of both Ecuador and Peru empty in the Gulf of Guayaquil, like the Guayas River, the Jubones River, the Zarumilla River and the Tumbes River.

History of Ecuador

The Spanish founded modern-day Quito and Guayaquil as part of the political administration era, which lasted until the War of Independence, the rise of Gran Colombia, and Simón Bolívar to the final separation of his vision into what is known today as the Republic of Ecuador.

Ismael Pérez Pazmiño

Ismael Pérez Pazmiño (Machala, June 30, 1876 - Los Angeles, November 1, 1944) was founder of El Universo newspaper of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and former senator of El Oro province.

Jaime Nebot

Nebot built a shopping promenade along the west bank of the Guayas River, in the center of Guayaquil.

Juan Bautista Aguirre

On August 20 of that year he left South America from Guayaquil bound for Faenza, Italy, where the Jesuits of Quito had taken refuge.

Malecón 2000

Several of the greatest historical monuments in the history of Guayaquil can be seen along its length, as well as museums, gardens, fountains, shopping malls, restaurants, bars, food courts, the first IMAX theater in South America, as well as boarding docks where several embarkations offer both daytime and nighttime tours up and down the Guayas River.

Pichincha, Ecuador

Guayaquil is a city in Guayaquil Canton in the Guayas Province in Ecuador.

Posorja

Posorja is a small village in Ecuador that lies about 120 km from the city Guayaquil at the delta of the Guayas River.

Psychological resilience

Investigators from the Ecuadorian Catholic University (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil) (Guayaquil) and the Spanish University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza), performed a comparative study at the Enrique C. Sotomayor Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital (Guayaquil) assessing resilience differences between pregnant adolescents and adults.

Theo Constanté

The work of Theo Constanté can be found in galleries, museums and collections throughout Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Cali, São Paulo, Miami, New York, Paris, and Madrid.

Vincente de Valverde

He halted for a brief stay on Puná Island, near Guayaquil, in Ecuador, where he was captured and put to death by the local indigenous people on 31 October 1541.

Yegor Lavroff

Currently Lavrov lives in the Dominican Republic, while also operates businesses in Miami, Florida, United States; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid, Spain; Panama City, Panama; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Pétionville, Haiti; and Lima, Peru.