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Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the second most populated city in the Republic of Ecuador, with a population in its metropolitan area of ​​just over three million inhabitants. The metropolitan area of ​​Guayaquil, also known as Gran Guayaquil formed by the city next to the neighboring cities of Samborondón and Duran. They make up the most populated metropolitan area in the country. It is also an important trade center with regional, financial, political, cultural and entertainment influence. The city is the cantonal head of the homonymous canton and the capital of the province of Guayas.

Located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the coastal region of Ecuador, the east of the city is on the banks of the Guayas River, about 20 kilometers from its mouth in the Pacific Ocean, while it is surrounded by the Estero Salado in its southwestern part and the beginning of the Chongón Colonche mountain range, a chain of mountains of average altitude, in the northwest. The Gulf of Guayaquil is the largest water inlet of the Pacific Ocean in South America. Its extreme outcrops are set at Cape Blanco, in Peru, and the province of Santa Elena, in Ecuador, covering a distance of 230 km. The city is divided into 16 urban parishes, although within a new municipal administration, its organization consists of 74 sectors. It is the second city with the highest demographic density in Ecuador, with a total of 2 644 891 inhabitants, in its urban agglomeration, including the urban population of Guayaquil, the urban population of Durán and that of the samborondeña parish of La Puntilla.

Currently the city of Guayaquil has a floating population with which it reaches 2 684 016 inhabitants within its metropolitan area, taking into account an average annual population growth rate of 2.70%. The city of Guayaquil is composed of 347 km² of surface, of which 316 km², equivalent to 91.9% of the total, belong to the mainland. While the remaining 29 km², equivalent to 8.1%, belong to bodies of water that include rivers and estuaries. The conurbation of Guayaquil, which is the metropolitan area of ​​Guayaquil, beyond the limits of the urban agglomeration, includes the cities of Milagro, Daule, Playas, among others, giving it a consolidated population of 3 113 725 inhabitants. Founded definitively in 1547 as a shipyard and commercial port in the service of the Spanish Crown, as "Santiago de Guayaquil", after several other attempts of foundation, it has served as the main point in the economy of the nation.

And uprisings in the course of history, being the first Ecuadorian city to obtain definitively its independence from Spain in 1820. Then it was the capital of the Free Province of Guayaquil, which was later forcibly annexed to Gran Colombia. Since 1830, it has been part of the Republic of Ecuador as an important economic and political axis. The March revolution that drove out foreign militarism, the liberal revolution led by General Eloy Alfaro, the May Revolution that changed the government and the Constitution of the time, are important events in the history of the nation that have developed in the city. Santiago de Guayaquil stands out among Ecuadorian cities for its high use of mass transit, and for its total density and the diversity of its population.

The port of the city is one of the most important on the eastern Pacific coast.70% of the country's private exports go through its facilities, with 83% of imports entering. Furthermore, because of its commercial center position, the city is traditionally known as the "economic capital" of the country, due to the number of companies, factories and commercial establishments that exist throughout the city.

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