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The Ferrocarriles del Ecuador Empresa Pública (Ecuadorian Railways Company) is the national railway of Ecuador. The railway system was devised to connect the Pacific coast with the Andean highlands. After many decades of service the railway was severely damaged by heavy rainfall during the El Niño in 1997 and 1998 [ 1][ 2] and from general ...
"Estadísticas de la Semana" [Stats of the Week] (in Spanish). National Institute of Statistics and Census of Ecuador. National Institute of Statistics and Census of Ecuador. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014 .
Guayaquil. / 2.19000°S 79.88750°W / -2.19000; -79.88750. Guayaquil ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaʝaˈkil] ⓘ; Quechua: Wayakil ), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city [contradictory] in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil ...
List of universities in Ecuador. Ecuadorian Universities. Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito. Universidad de Investigación de Tecnología Experimental Yachay, Urcuquí. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito. Universidad de Guayaquil, Guayaquil. Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas - ESPE, Sangolquí.
There were two military dictatorships in the country (1963–1966 and 1972–1979) before democracy returned with the election of Jaime Roldós Aguilera. From 1996 to 2005, 3 constitutional presidents were overthrown ( Abdalá Bucaram, Jamil Mahuad and Lucio Gutiérrez ). The left-wing populist government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017) has been ...
Regionalization, or zoning, is the union of two or more adjoining provinces in order to decentralize the administrative functions of the capital, Quito. In Ecuador, there are seven regions, or zones, each shaped by the following provinces: Region 1 (42,126 km 2, or 16,265 mi 2 ): Esmeraldas, Carchi, Imbabura, and Sucumbios.
José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport. / 2.15750°S 79.88361°W / -2.15750; -79.88361. José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional José Joaquín de Olmedo; IATA: GYE, ICAO: SEGU) is an international airport serving Guayaquil, the capital of the Guayas Province and the most populous city in ...
Guayaquil City F.C. Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Guayaquil City F.C. (known as C.D. River Ecuador until 2017) is an Ecuadorian professional football club based in Guayaquil. They currently play in the country's second-level football league, the Serie B, after being relegated from the top tier Ecuadorian Serie A at ...