to know its history - Guayaquil es mi Destino

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GUAYAQUIL IS MY
DESTINATION…
to know its history
PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL COMPANY OF TOURISM, CIVIC PROMOTION
AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF GUAYAQUIL
Jaime Nebot
Saadi
Major of Guayaquil
“Guayaquil is my Destination” is
the phrase that invites all people of
Guayaquil, Ecuador, and the world to
love our city and to turn it into the
destination of each and every one.
“G
uayaquil is my Destination” represents the civic
values of our people that
through its acts, has written with golden letters the pages of our history.
This city is characterized by its hospitality, its warm and joyful people who
work every day to make their dreams
come true.
Locals and foreigners have chosen
Guayaquil as their destination to live
setting down roots in this land and
keeping this city in their hearts and in
the hearts of their children and grandchildren.
As a man from Guayaquil, born in
this land that I love immensely, I have
the honor to be its representative since
the year 2000. I have devoted my life
and my best efforts to turn Guayaquil
into the Large Cosmopolitan City that
it is today; a transformation process
that has not been slowed and has
planted a feeling of pride in the heart of
the citizens of Guayaquil.
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“Guayaquil is my Destination” is the
tourist brand of the city that invites
everyone to visit it. As a lighthouse
it symbolizes light, guidance, and
knowledge, representing what we
are: “GUAYAQUIL, PORT OF THE
NATION”, “GUAYAQUIL, INDEPENDENT PROGRESSING IN LIBERTY.”
I invite you to visit Guayaquil to
enjoy all of its tourist attractions
starting with the first guide about the
historic district. It represents the love
of the sons of Guayaquil for this land,
who overcame all adversities to defend
it, to build it, and to honor it with its
churches, piers, parks, squares, and
monuments. Of these, the Column
to National Heroes of Independence
stands out for being a symbol of this
city, cradle of liberty, whose eternal flame shines for the glory of Guayaquil, in
Ecuador and in the American Republic.
Guayaquil, july 1 of 2014
INDEX
2 Message from the major Jaime Nebot
4 Welcome to Guayaquil
6 Historic Center: Scene of Independence
8 Centenary Square
14 Santa Ana Hill
19 The Lighthouse
22 Las Peñas Neighborhood
26 Santa Ana Port
30 Colon Square
32 Santo Domingo de Guzmán Church
34 Carmen Hill
36 Simón Bolívar Pier
40 Old South Market (Crystal Palace)
44 Olmedo Square
47 Morgan ship, Tourist rides trough the
river
48 Civic Square
50 The Moorish Tower
54 Gallery of the Presidents from
Guayaquil
56 The Rotonda Hemicycle
60 Botanical Gardens of the Simón Bolívar
Pier
62 Neo Classic Square
65 Cinema Malecón
66 Anthropological Museum Of
Contemporary Art MAAC
68 Miniature Museum: Guayaquil in
History
70 La Merced square
72 La Merced Church
74 San Francisco Square
78 Seminario Park
82 Metropolitan Cathedral San Peter
the Apostle
84 Administration Square
88 Municipal Palace
90 Gobernor's Palace
92 San Alejo Church
94 San Agustín Park
98 La Victoria Square
100 La Victoria Church
102 Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno
Square
104 Pier of the Salado Estuary
106 Writers Walkway
108 The Velero Bridge
109 Monumental Fountain Dancing
Waters
110 Lineal Park
112 Music Square
113 Zig-Zag Bridge
114 General information
131 Message from Gloria Gallardo
Zavala, president of the public
and municipal company of
tourism and civic promotion of
Guayaquil
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Hoyos, M. (2008). Los
recuerdos de la Iguana. Guayaquil: Editorial Poligráfica.
• Estrada, Julio. (1966,
November). Historical Guide
Of Guayaquil, Volume 2.
Guayaquil: Poligráfica.
• Castro, Parsival. (20002013). Monuments of
Guayaquil, Series 12 Volumes.
Guayaquil: Municipality of
Guayaquil
• Avilés, Efrén & Hoyos, Melvin. (2007) Urban Memories.
Guayaquil: Poligráfica.
• Chávez, Modesto. (1944)
Chronicles Of Guayaquil.
Avilés, Efrén. Encyclopedia Of
The Ecuador.
• Chronicles Of Diaries El Universo, El Telégrafo, Expreso,
Hoy And Pp.
• Espol And Ecotec Student’s
Dissertation.
Web Pages Of Tourism And
Architecture.
Editorial managment:
Gloria Gallardo Zavala.
Historical research:
Parsival Castro Pita.
Graphic designing:
Marco Cerquera.
Production:
Mélida Plúas Torres.
Cover photo:
Carlos Julio González.
Photos:
Raúl Suconota G.
César Mera,
Efrén Avilés M.,
Carlos Julio González,
Christian Brückmann,
Parsival Castro,
Jose Dimitrakis,
Iván Navarrete,
Freddy Moreno.
Map:
Oscar Arias C.
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Guayaquil
Welcome to
T
he Historic District of Guayaquil maintains
the collective memory of a people that
made efforts to build its destiny. The
original historic district was part of the
Old Town, located at the foot of the Cerrito Verde.
It was made up of the Church of Santo Domingo,
the Arms Square, the Fort La Planchada and La
Marina Neighborhood.
In 1690, because of the transfer of the
population to the New Town, the historic
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district expanded following along La Orilla street,
today Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue, passing
by Los Franciscanos street, today 9 de Octubre
Boulevard, and going beyond the municipal
building and reaching the borders of the then
Saraguro Estuary, today Olmedo Boulevard.
These neighborhoods were the location of
the heroic feat of Guayaquil’s Independence on
October 9, 1820.
The image of this picturesque city of the
Photo: Lalo Calle
tropics was characterized by its wooden
architecture adapted to the warm climate, such
as wide streets and spacious portals.
Fires affected the city and destroyed its
graceful wooden architecture of gallant doors
and balconies carved by skilled carpenters.
Although it was later rebuilt in concrete, the
Spanish style checkerboard street layout was
preserved which can be seen in its streets through
its portals and sidewalks.
Today, the historic district maintains its
beautiful statuary through the architectural lines
of its temples and churches that resemble the
old wooden buildings.
Guayaquil, Independent City, Port of the
Nation, Royal Shipyard of the Americas, Cradle of
Liberty, symbol of courage, boldness and sacrifice,
great because of the efforts, philanthropy and
solidarity of its people, opens its arms to welcome
Ecuadorians and all people of the world.
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Historic
District:
Scene of
Independence
• Drawing of the house where the Declaration of
Independence was signed, today the Municipal Palace.
uring the last days of September and
the first week of October, 1820, the
meetings held at the house of Jose de
Villamil between the patriots became
more frequent. The house was located in the
southeast corner of La Orilla street, currently
Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue, and Los Franciscanos street, currently 9 de Octubre Boulevard.
There, at 8:00 pm on October 8, Escobedo said
goodbye to his fellow citizens with the historic
phrase, “Goodbye until we see each other as
triumphant men.” The route to freedom started
in the north of the city at Fort La Planchada
when it was taken over during the early hours of
October 9th by Sargent Pavon and Chief Alvarez.
While the battalion Granaderos de Reserva
was stationed at the town hall, where the Valra
Building is currently located (10 de Agosto street
between Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue and Pichincha Avenue), it was taken over around 2:00
in the morning by a small group led by Gregorio
de Escobedo. At the same hour, a small group
of soldiers led by Leon de Febres Cordero took
over the headquarters of the artillery brigade
located at the corner of Clemente Ballen street
and Pichincha street.
Luis de Urdaneta and Jose de Antepara led
another group that took over the Daule headquarters located in Taona, where the building
of Comercial Jarrin is currently located between
Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue and Olmedo Boulevard.
Simultaneously, Manuel de Jesus Fajardo
and Francisco de Marcos captured the artillery
battery of Las Cruces, located near Eloy Alfaro
Avenue between Argentina street and General
Gomez street.
Before dawn, the Spanish colonel, Benito
Garcia del Barrio, was captured at his house
which was located where the Municipal Library
now stands. Towards the dawn of October 9 of
1820, where the current Malecon Simon Bolivar
Avenue and 9 de Octubre Boulevard intersect,
Villamil and Febres Cordero, with emotions running high, contemplated for the first time the
Glorious Dawn.
D
• Shore street, today the location of the Simon Bolivar Riverfront.
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Historic Center
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Centenary
Square
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Lorenzo
de Garaycoa avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Centenary Square was inaugurated on October 9, 1920 as the pinnacle
work to commemorate 100 years of Guayaquil’s
independence.
Its history dates back to the end of the 19th
century in 1891, when the Cantonal Council
decided to build a column to honor the heroes
of Guayaquil’s independence.
The White House & Co, directed by engineer
George B. Allison, was commissioned to build
the square. Also, the Venezuelan engineer,
Francisco Manrique Pacanis, participated with
the building project.
On October 9, 1899 the first stone was
placed. And on October 9 of 1920, a century
after achieving independence, the Square was
inaugurated with a ceremony presided by the
president of the country, Jose Luis Tamayo.
Attractions: The Square, one of the
largest of the city, is 8,875 square meters and
follows the traditional architectural detailing
of the Sacred Woods of classical Greece.
It has several attractions in which statues of
great value stand out surrounded by beautiful
gardens.
In the center of the Square is the monument called “The Column to National Heroes”,
crafted by Spanish sculptor Agustin Querol. It
pays tribute to their heroic feat of October 9,
1820 that signaled independence.
There are different statues in every gate
of the square, each one with great symbolic
significance. The “Fountain of the Lions” is
located at the southwest corner of the Square.
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Centenary Square
Photo: Carlos Julio González
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The Column to national
Heroes
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Lorenzo de Garaycoa
avenue, Centenary Square. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Spanish artist Agustin
Querol designed the monument. The inauguration took place on October 9, 1920 as the
crowning work to commemorate 100 years of
Guayaquil’s independence.
The history of the monument dates back to
the year of 1821, a year after independence,
when the Governing Board of the Free State
of Guayaquil came up with the idea of its construction in order to immortalize the independence of the then free province of Guayaquil.
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Centenary Square / The Column to National Heroes
Towards the end of 1914, 159 stones arrived
from Barcelona, weighing a total of 523,000
kilograms. These stones made up the granite
and rose marble base and the white marble
capital. They were unloaded at the Municipal
Sanitation dock.
On October 9, 1918, a pre-inauguration was
carried out with the presence of President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, who gave the initial
impulse to the project as Trustee of the Council.
Finally, on October 9, 1920, a historic date for
Photo: José Dimitrakis
• On one side of the column there is the sculpture of a woman which symbolizes Freedom.
• Engraving of the schooner Alcance, the
one that carried the news of the freedom
of America.
Guayaquil, a century after independence, the
president of the country, Jose Luis Tamayo,
officially inaugurated the Square with its column, monuments and statuary.
The monument was a project of Spanish artist Agustin Querol. However, he died in 1909,
just one year after the work started. He only
was able to cast the allegoric statue of history.
The remaining ones were done by his protégé,
Catalan sculptor Jose Monserrat, who followed
the model of his mentor.
Attractions: The monument
reaches 27 meters in height, has a weight of
22.5 tons and cost half million sucres.
The column is formed by 3 elements:
1) A granite base with four statues corresponding to the four points of a compass, each
representing a patriot of independence: Jose
Joaquin de Olmedo, Leon de Febres Cordero,
Jose de Villamil, and Jose de Antepara. In
each corner of the base, there are four other
statues. Three are allegorical female figures
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Photo: Parsival Castro
• Homage to the Patriots of Independence: José de Antepara, José Joaquín de Olmedo, José de Villamil and León de Febres Cordero.
symbolizing the past, present, and future, and
the other is an allegorical male figure symbolizing space.
2) A shaft engraved with the names of
patriots, the Declaration of Independence,
and an allegory of a people ascending towards liberty.
3) The capital, a statue of a beautiful young
woman holding the flame of liberty.
The monument also has eight medallions
representing the effigies of the following patriots: Miguel de Letamendi, Gregorio Escobedo, Juan Francisco Elizalde,
Francisco Maria Roca, Francisco de Paula
Lavayen and Rafael Maria de la Cruz Jimena. These men were important protagonists of Independence.
At the base of the column there are four
bas-reliefs. Each one depicts a relevant moment in Guayaquil’s history of independence:
the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the crowning of León de Febres Cordero, the battle of Huachi, and the schooner
Alcance, the war vessel used to announce to
America that Guayaquil had been liberated.
There are also two plaques acknowledging the
author, the Pro Monument Committee, and the
names of its members.
Allegories of Centenary Square
Aurigas
Apllied arts
Address: Boulevard 9 de Octubre and Lorenzo
de Garaycoa avenue, Centenary Square.
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Lorenzo
de Garaycoa avenue.
This work by Catalan
sculptor Juan Rovira
forged in the workshops
of Italian Giuseppe
Beneduce is an iron
sculpture of two
spirited horses that
symbolizes the passions
that the human spirit
dominates.
Photos: José Dimitrakis
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Centenary Square / Allegories
The iron sculpture
crafted by Spanish
sculptor Juan Rovira,
is of the nymph of the
Minor Arts represented by a semi-naked
woman wearing
the attributes of the
wheel of Industry
and the ball of yarn
of spinners.
The Fountain of
the Lions
Address: Pedro Moncayo avenue and Velez street
Centenary Square. Parish: Rocafuerte.
Attractions: Built in concrete, the fountain
of the lions has an octagonal shape with an iron
cross in the center adorned with flower motifs.
Two lions are majestically seated at the base
giving the fountain its name. Along its shaft
there are four medallions, one on each side,
depicting female figures.
The fountain has several levels. The first
level is circular, made of iron, and is 5 meters
high. Here, from above, it receives water that
overflows from a circular container of smaller
circumference.
At the top of the water fountain there is
statue of a woman adorned with a crown of
laurel leaves on her head, a pitcher in her hand,
and stalk of wheat at her feet.
Cronos estatue
Hermes estatue
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Pedro
Moncayo avenue.
Address: Victor Manuel Rendon street and 6 de
Marzo avenue, Centenary Square.
A bronze sculpture
crafted by Catalan
artist Juan Rovira that
represents Cronos,
one of the first titans
in Greek mythology,
waving the serpent
of desires against
the crude stone of
his destiny. At this
spot, the visitor
can observe to the
right the statue that
represents the land of
provisions.
A bronze sculpture
by Spanish sculptor Jose Homs that
represents Hermes
with wings on his
head as a symbol
of the flight of
thought.
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Santa Ana Hill
Address: Numa Pompilio Llona street and Jacinto Moran de Buitron street. Parish: Tarqui.
History: Santa Ana Hill is the place
where Guayaquil was born. Back in the 16th
century, between the decades of 1540 and
1550, Diego de Urbina of Spain settled the city
at the foot of the hill, Cerrito Verde or Cerrito
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Santa Ana Hill /
de la Culata. This hill alongside Carmen Hill
formed an image similar to a saddle. Therefore,
the city was called “The Saddle City”.
According to legend the name Santa Ana
comes from a legend about a Spanish treasure
hunter by the name of Nino de Lecumberri.
When facing near death, he invoked the aid
of Saint Ann. To express his gratitude for surviving, he placed a cross at the top of the hill
with the story of “Santa Ana”. Since then, the
inhabitants started calling the place by her
name. Earlier it was called “Loninchao” by the
original inhabitants.
Attractions: The 60 meters high
hill offers the best 360 degree view of the
city. To the north one can be see where the
Babahoyo and Daule rivers meet to form the
Guayas River, to the south, the commercial
center of the city, to the east, the Santay Island
and Duran, and to the west, Carmen Hill and the
rest of the city. At the lookout point, binoculars
are available for tourists to use.
Santa Ana Hill is a tourist location that is
accessed by the Diego Noboa Stairs consisting
of 444 steps. Along the way there are squares,
pergolas, museums, a chapel, a lighthouse,
art galleries, craft shops, Internet cafes, bars,
and restaurants.
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Diego
Noboa y
Arteta
stairs
Photo: Iván Navarrete
Address: Santa Ana Hill.
Parish: Tarqui.
History: The stairs of Santa Ana
Hill bear the name of Ecuadorian hero,
Diego Noboa y Arteta, who was born in
Guayaquil on April 15, 1789 and died on
November 3, 1870.
He became the president of Ecuador in
1851 and was part of the triumvirate that
led the revolution of March 6, 1845, along
with Jose Joaquin de Olmedo and Vicente
Ramon Roca.
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Santa Ana Hill / Diego Noboa y Arteta stairs
Attractions: The stairs are
a popular tourist destination because of
its cultural significance and places of entertainment. It begins at the foot of the
hill and ends at the top. It is made up
of 444 numbered steps which along the
way tourists can find squares, pergolas,
museums, a chapel, a lighthouse, art galleries, craft shops, Internet cafes, bars, and
restaurants..
Bust to
Diego Noboa
Attractions: Made of bronze, the bust
rests over a square pedestal and is set to one
side of the stairs. A garden of palm trees and
tropical plants surround it, and the sculpture
shows Diego Noboa elegantly dressed with his
presidential sash. A plaque gives an overview
of his political career.
Address: Step # 10 of the Diego Noboa stairs, Santa
Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
The fountain of the
Hill
Address: Step # 123 of the Diego Noboa stairs,
Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui
History: The work was carried out by the
Municipality of Guayaquil as part of its urban
regeneration program.
Attractions: The Fountain was built imitating the style of colonial times.
The Sword of
Santiago
Address: Step # 163 of the Diego Noboa stairs,
Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The sculpture has historic meaning related to the city’s identity, which is expressed in the saying inscribed at the bottom:
“Here, it is established in a definite way, the
completely free city of Guayaquil.”The sword
was the emblem of the religious order of Santiago, named after the Apostle James (Santiago), patron saint of Spain. Since the Spanish founded our city, it has the same patron,
therefore the name Santiago de Guayaquil.
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Symbol
Square
Address: Step # 444 of the Diego Noboa stair,
top of the Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
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Santa Ana Hill / Symbol Square
History: Also known as Honor Square,
it was built in 2002 by the Municipality of Guayaquil and represents, within a civic context,
the place where the city pays tribute to patriotic symbols as various events take place to
commemorate civic dates.
Attractions: Its anchor design
represents the military code for raising and
lowering the flag. Also, there is a cannon of
centuries past that was used by the National
Navy.
The Lighthouse
Address: Step # 444 of the Diego Noboa stairs, Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
from stranding or shipwrecking their vessels.
Currently, the lighthouse is the main symbol of the tourist campaign “Guayaquil is my
destination”.
Attractions: Located at the highest point of the hill, the Lighthouse has a
height of 18.75 meters and rises above sea
level at a peak of 85.90 meters, allowing a
360 degree view. Its structure has an indoor
staircase that leads to a balcony, which offers
a vantage point where one can appreciate the
city in its entire splendor.
History: Its construction began on
July of 2001 and was inaugurated in 2002 by
the mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot. The work
evokes and preserves the significance that the
first lighthouse had to the city. In 1841, it
was located on the island of Santa Clara also
known as El Muerto Island, at the mouth of the
Gulf of Guayaquil, in front of the area called
Punta de Piedra.
At that time, in the 19th century, the lighthouse played a very important role because
the river was the main gateway to the city.
Its light served to guide and safeguard sailors
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Naval Museum
The Fort of Santa Ana
Address: Step # 380 of the Diego Noboa stairs, Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The Naval Museum was established by the Ecuadorian Foundation of the
Sea (Fundemar) under an agreement with the
Municipality of Guayaquil and the Siglo XXI
Foundation in order to highlight the maritime
activity of the city’s port. It was built in 2002
and inaugurated in October 31, 2003.
Attractions: It has 21 objects from
the 16th century that recount the history of
the city’s defense against pirates. Among them
are replicas of vessels, navigation instruments,
weapons, anchors, a telegraph, a reflector,
a lantern and an astrolabe that was used to
observe the location and movement of the
planets and stars for navigation.
Also, remains of the foundation of Fort “La
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Polvorosa” can be observed at the museum.
The fort was founded in 1629 and was considered as Guayaquil’s only military defense
against pirate attacks.
Also, there are cannons (both real and replicas), the anchor of the gunboat, Calderon, and
a replica of the sundeck of the vessel called
“Jesus, Maria de la Limpia y Pura Concepcion
de Nuestra Señora”, built in the shipyards of
Guayaquil for the King of Spain. A sundial is
placed at the central patio of the museum,
which was used to keep time.
Visiting Hours: Mondays to Sundays from
08h30 until 22h00, Saturdays and Sundays
from 08h30 until 24h00
Admission: Free.
Santa Ana Hill / Naval Museum The Fort of Santa Ana
Santa Ana
Chapel
Address: Step # 444 of the Diego Noboa stairs, top of Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
History: It was built by the current
municipal administration as part of the urban
regeneration program. It was inaugurated on
September 23, 2002 to commemorate the Virgin of La Merced, a catholic order founded in
1200 that arrived in Guayaquil in 1548.
Attractions: It was built with traditional Ecuadorian materials like chanul, a
hardwood of the region that is resistant to
insect and water damage.
Its façade has a portico with two Solomonic
columns. The front upper part has a cross, a bell
and an image of Christ. And on the back there is
the Sword of Santiago, patron saint of the city.
It has 19 stained glass windows designed
by Ecuadorian artists, Luis Narea and Patricio
Leon. Fourteen of them represent Calvary and
the crucifixion of Christ, and the remaining five
depict the galleons that recall the maritime
tradition of the city, the Virgin Mary and her
son, the popular legend of Our Lady of Santa
Ana, patron of the place, and Santa Cecilia,
patron of music.
Visiting Hours: open daily from 08h00
until 22h00.
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Las Peñas
Neighborhood
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Numa Pompilio LLona street, at the
slopes of Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
History: Being more than 400 years
old, Las Peñas was the first neighborhood of
Guayaquil. It took its name from the cliffs
and limestone rocks that formed the hill
back when the Spanish settled the area in
the 16th century. In 1982 the neighborhood
was declared a Cultural Heritage of Ecuador,
and between 2002 and 2008, the place was
restored by the Municipality of Guayaquil.
This neighborhood, born in colonial times,
was destroyed on several occasions by fires
that assailed the city. Because it was rebuilt
during the times of the Republic, it lost its
colonial characteristics.
Distinguished personalities from the
spheres of politics, business and culture
lived in the neighborhood. Among them were
eleven presidents of the country like Carlos
Arroyo del Rio, Francisco Robles, Jose Luis
Tamayo, Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola, Alfredo
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Las Peñas Neighborhood /
Baquerizo Moreno and Eloy Alfaro, writers
like Enrique Gil Gilbert, historians like Rafael
Pino Roca, artists like Manuel Rendon Seminario and Alfredo Espinoza Tamayo. Also the
educator Rita Lecumberry and the musician
Antonio Neumane, author of the lyrics of the
National Anthem lived there. It is also said
that the revolutionary Che Guevara lived there
for a while, giving free pediatric assistance to
the inhabitants of the place. In addition, the
neighborhood was visited by American writer
Ernest Hemingway and Chilean poet Neftali
Reyes, better known as Pablo Neruda.
Attractions: It has a unique architectural style and a spectacular hillside
location in front of the river. It has a colorful
and romantic appearance of narrow, cobbledstoned streets with a bohemian ambiance.
Numa Pompilio Llona
street
[ HERITAGE ]
History: The Numa Pompilio Llona
street, located at Las Peñas Neighborhood,
which bears the same name since 1920
in honor of the recognized poet of Guayaquil. It is a narrow, cobblestone street
that starts at The Fortin and ends in the old
factory of the National Brewery Company.
In this area, old and sumptuous houses
were built that reflect a wooden tradition,
a symbol of identity of the city-port.
The winding corridor of narrow, cobblestone streets was originally designed for
the passage of horse-guided carriages. It
was known before as “Calle de la Orilla”
(Shore street) which was the first pier of
the city. Its layout was registered in the
diaries of pirate Guillermo Dampier.
Today, thanks to the urban regeneration
program carried out by the Municipality of
Guayaquil between the years of 2002 and
2008, the cobblestone street was replaced
by a better network of rectangular stones
without losing that classic style of ancient
times.
Attractions: A winding path of narrow, cobblestone streets where beautiful
and sumptuous wooden houses were built
in the early years of the 20th century.
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Photo: Archivo Vistazo
Houses of
Las Peñas
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Numa Pomilio Llona street, slopes of
Santa Ana Hill. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The heritage houses of Las
Peñas Neighborhood date from the first decades of the 20th century, since the first constructions of the colonial times were destroyed
by several fires that assailed the city.
The houses, after 6 years of reconstruction,
were destroyed again by the fire of July 16,
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Las Peñas Neighborhood / Houses of Las Peñas
1902, so they had to be rebuilt. The houses, this time,
were built of wood and quincha (cane) coated in zinc.
Around the year of 1500, a
fishing village began to form
next to the Numa Pompilio
Llona street, in which the
boats touched port to bring
the wealth of the Gulf and of
the coastal areas.
The street Numa Pompilio
Llona was the road linking the
civic plaza where the church
was with the commercial
center of the first shipyard of
1602.
The first houses, built with
a seafaring style, had in their
pillars decay-resistant woods
like mangrove and Guayacan
that were assembled in pieces
called “Rays of Jupiter.”
Their wide stairways and
floors with high ceilings provided a cooler environment
amid the warm climate of
Guayaquil.
Of those houses that were
occupied by presidents, artists, writers, musicians, landlords, company men and cultural
personalities, 32 have been declared heritage
sites. Among them are the houses of Antonio
Neumane, author of the lyrics of the National
Anthem, Baquerizo Moreno, Arroyo, Arosemena, Marin, Hoeb, Gabela, Trivino, Salcedo,
Arturo Zea, Elba Nuquez, Yela, El Roble Properties, Las Peñas Cultural Association, Villa
Pharos, and the Hotel del Rio.
Attractions: The houses are made
of wood and were built at the early days of the
20th century. They have different styles with
a clear European influence, with French-style
balconies and windows with naval motifs to
view the river, which provide a cooler environment inside the houses.
The Fort of
La Planchada
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Numa Pompilio Llona street, Las Peñas Neighborhood. Parish: Tarqui.
History: Fort La Planchada was built
in 1647 and was a bulwark against the attacks
of pirates that tried to loot the city during the
times of the colony.
It was built with stone in the most strategic
point of the city next to the river in order to
watch the entry of vessels and to protect the
first urban settlement of the city at the slopes
of the hill.
According to history, the original fort dates
from the 17th century, when it was used to
defend the city against the attacks of Dutch
pirates, led by Capitan Gubernant in 1624,
who tried to loot the city on two occasions.
During the combat, several citizens lost their
lives; although the battle was won, the city
was destroyed completely.
The name given to the fort has a unique
story. At that time, the place had large rocks
and hills that made the land very irregular. To
fix this, the inhabitants would flatten the land.
In Spanish the word “planchar” means to iron
and is used metaphorically when something
needs to be flattened out like the wrinkles
in clothes. That is why the fort’s name is La
Planchada because, according to history, the
land was flattened completely in 1960 for the
festivities of Corpus Christi.
Fort La Planchada has great historic value,
since it was one of the scenes of the independence of Guayaquil. In the early hours of
October 9, 1820, Sargent Hilario Vargas and his
troops took over La Planchada with the help
of the inhabitants of Las Peñas Neighborhood
who joined the cause of independence.
In 1996, the fort was declared a Heritage
Monument by the National Institute of Heritage and Culture (INPC, for its Spanish acronym).
Attractions: Two cannons form
part of the fort that are located within a circled area and positioned to defend the City of
Guayaquil as they were during the times of the
colony and the Republic.
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Santa
Ana
Port
Address: Slopes of the Santa Ana Hill.
Parish: Tarqui.
• Panoramic view of Santa Ana Port.
History: It is a building complex of
4 hectares formed by several office buildings,
commercial shops, apartments, squares, museums and a pier that borders the Guayas River.
Its construction began in January 2005 and
the first stage was inaugurated on April 15,
2007. The cost of more than 20 million dollars
was funded by the municipality and private
corporations.
The original plans were designed by the
American architectural studio, DDG, following
a style similar to the Cocowalk in Miami. It
was built in the area where the old National
Brewery, the dairy company, Indulac, and the
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Santa Ana Port /
Photo: César Mera
rice company, Modelo, used to be located. The
area is connected to the neighborhood, Las
Peñas, through Numa Pompilio Llona street.
Attractions: It is surrounded by
a natural landscape located in front of the
Guayas River. It has a modern architecture
with a building constructed in the same place
where the silos of the National Brewery used to
be located and maintains its original design.
There is the Pilsener Plaza in which several
artistic events take place, also the museums
that pay tribute to Julio Jaramillo, the Beer
industry and Barcelona Sporting Club.
Museum of Popular Music
“Julio Jaramillo Laurido”
Address: Santa Ana Port, Shipyard Building, second floor. Parish: Tarqui.
History: Inaugurated on March 1,
2008, sponsored and funded by the Municipality of Guayaquil, the museum bears the
name of Julio Jaramillo to pay tribute to the
city’s singer, popularly known as “Jota Jota”
(JJ) or “the Nightingale of America”. He was
considered the best Ecuadorian popular singer
of all times and a symbol of national music.
Its main purpose is to disseminate our musical heritage to the new generations. More
than a century of history of authors, composers
and Ecuadorian promoters are exhibited in the
Museum.
other exhibitions: Statues of popular
and famous musicians known as “Lagarteros”,
who performed serenades under the balconies
of the old houses of Guayaquil. And also, replicas of well-known bars like “La Lagartera”
and “Fortich”, which were very fashionable in
past decades.
There is a wax statue, a bust, photographs,
clothing, albums, album covers, newspaper
clippings and several objects related to the
popular singer.
Visiting Hours: Open from Wednesday
to Saturday, from 8h00 until 13h00 and from
14h00 until17h00. Sundays, from 10h00 until
15h00.
Admission: Free.
Photo: Efrén Avilés M.
Attractions: Photographs, album
covers, magazines, music jukeboxes, tapes,
musical scores, garments, musical instruments
and audio equipment from old to modern
times. Objects and musical scores from 1892
are also exhibited, which belonged to the First
Music School of Guayaquil.
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Museums of the Shipyard Teams:
Barcelona and Emelec
History: The Museums of the Shipyard
Teams pays tribute to Barcelona and Emelec,
the two most popular and important soccer
teams of the city that were formed in the 1920’s
in the shipyard neighborhood, therefore the
name.
The Museum of Barcelona, inaugurated on
July 9, 2013, exhibits the history of the team
established on Friday May 1, 1928 by Spanish
and Ecuadorian entrepreneurs at the House of
Catalan Eutimio Perez.
Barcelona has won the title of Ecuadorian
Champion fourteen times from 1957 until 2013
and has been Sub-champion of the Libertadores Cup on two occasions, 1990 and 2008.
The Museum of Emelec, that currently is being remodeled, pays tribute to the club born in
the Electric Company of Ecuador and founded
on April 28, 1929 by American George Capwell,
Photo: Efrén Avilés
• Museum of Barcelona
manager of the Institution. The team has won
the Ecuadorian Championship 10 times.
Attractions: The museum of
Barcelona exhibits the teams’ jerseys, photographs, posters, legendary videos of the
players, best plays, important matches, a
prototype of the stadium, clothing and shoes
of the players, trophies, plaques, and balls.
The videos are exhibited in a movie theater
equipped with three screens.
• Museum of Emelec
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Santa Ana Port / Museums
Visiting Hours: Open from Wednesday to
Sunday from 10h00 until 18h00
Admission: Free.
Beer Museum
History: Inaugurated on July 27,
2009, as a place dedicated to culture and tourism. It is located on the banks of the Guayas
River at Las Peñas neighborhood. This is the
same place where the National Brewery Company has operated since 1887. That was the
year when the first beer made in Guayaquil was
sold. The company started its operations as
selling ice and beer.
The museum, 70 square meters, has three
show cases of an exhibit by Jenny Estrada,
historian from Guayaquil. The exhibit narrates
the 10,000-year history of beer in the world
and the more than 100 years of beer in Guayaquil. Beer is a product that represents the
culture and lifestyle of the city’s people. Beer
production changed the labor sphere, since
people started to drink national beverages
instead of the imported ones, and the company
provided new jobs.
Attractions: Miniature figures
made in resin that recreate scenes of the production process and transportation of beer.
And also relics, container copies, photographs,
acknowledgments, documents and a historical
overview of the National Brewery Company,
which started its operations as a factory of
ice and beer.
Visiting Hours: Wednesdays to Saturdays
from 10h00 until 13h00 and from 14h00 until
17h00; Sundays from 10h00 until 17h00.
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Colon
Square
• Santiago’s Cross.
History: It was the first square of the
city which gives it great importance and transcendence. Built in the 16th century, in 1539,
at the slopes of the “Cerrito Verde”, currently
Santa Ana Hill, and next to a church, a tradition
at the time; the square turned into a resting
and recreational place for tourists and parishioners, and was the first Arms Square of the city.
In 1842, during the first years of the republic, it was named Square of La Concepcion, but
in 1903, a fire destroyed it. Six years later,
in 1909, thanks to the community work of
the neighbors, the Square was rebuilt and was
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Santa Ana Hill / Colon Square
Address: Vicente Rocafuerte avenue and Sargento Moran Buitron street, Las Peñas Neighborhood. Parish: Tarqui.
Photo:: José Dimitrakis
named Plaza Colón (Columbus Square) in honor
of the discoverer of the American continent.
Through time, the square has been a silent
witness of the revolutionary movements of
independence, popular uprisings, fires, pirate
and buccaneer attacks and other developments that marked the history of Guayaquil.
Attractions: The Firefighters Museum is located within the surroundings of the
square, also a gathering place used for artistic performances and a monument to captain
Francisco de Orellana.
Bust to
Francisco de Orellana
Address: Moran de Buitron street and Rocafuerte avenue, Las Peñas Neighborhood.
Parish: Tarqui.
History: The bust pays tribute to
Spanish conqueror Francisco de Orellana, one
of the founders of the city and discoverer of the
Amazon River. It is located in the place where
the city was settled. It was inaugurated on
October 12, 1929 and was crafted by Rosario
Villagomez, sculptor from Quito.
At first, the sculpture was placed at the
Alameda of Rocafuerte street, in the intersection with Orellana street, north of the
city. It remained there until 1930 when it was
transferred to Colon Square. Finally, in 2003,
following the urban regeneration program
carried out by the Municipality of Guayaquil,
it was permanently located at the new Colon
Square, built at the top part of the tunnel of
Santa Ana Hill.
In the west façade there are three figures in
a struggling march. One is riding a horse that
represents Orellana. Under this figure there is
the image of a naked woman holding a horn of
plenty that symbolizes the warrior tribe of the
Amazon. In the south façade several characters are shown struggling while climbing and
clearing the path of the inhospitable jungle.
Photo:: José Dimitrakis
Attractions: The sculpture depicts Orelllana watching the river dressed in
the classic armor used in the times of the conquest. It has a solid base of concrete that has
a high-relief that shows the coat of arms, a lion
holding a banner of two-crossed stripes and
the tower of a castle. The high-relief is crowned
with the face of an indigenous man surrounded
by laurel and olive branches.
Each one of the facades has its particularity. The north one has a high-relief
that shows Orellana meeting a
female angel that is offering him
a laurel wreath while holding an
olive branch in the other hand.
In the bottom part another figure can be seen, which symbolizes
the great effort carried out by the
conqueror during his expedition to
the Amazon.
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• The main altar of the church.
Santo Domingo de Guzmán
Church
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Rocafuerte avenue and General Vernaza street. Parish: Tarqui
History: It was the first church built
in Guayaquil, in 1548 in the times of the
colony, by the order of the Dominicans that
named the temple “Santo Domingo de Guzman”, in honor of their founder.
The story tells that, initially, the church
was made of wood and was rebuilt five times
in the same place due to the fires of 1624,
1804, and 1896. It was permanently restored
in 1893 by Italian architect Paolo Russo.
The church has great historic value since
it was the first that had an elaborated cross
and mud walls. Also it was the only one that
kept the exterior cross, which was characteristic of the colonial times.
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Santa Ana Hill / Santo Domingo de Guzmán Church
Attractions: The church has
a central nave with a barrel vault and two
lower lateral naves.
In the interior there are two chapels. One
that is dedicated to the veneration of the
Blessed Sacrament with a baroque altarpiece
made of marble. It has an image of the Holy
Grail at the top and a pelican feeding three
chicks at the bottom. This symbolizes the
Divinity nurturing the body, the soul and
the spirit.
In the chapel that faces to the right, there
is a baroque altarpiece and a baptismal font
made of marble. The interior garden has an
adobe wall that is 500 years old.
• The front of the church maintains its colonial architectural features.
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Carmen
Hill
Address: Ascending street to Carmen Hill, next
to Julian Coronel street and Loja street.
Parish: Tarqui.
Monumento al
Sagrado Corazón
de Jesús
Dirección: Calle de ascenso al Cerro del Carmen,
a la altura de la avenida Julián Coronel
y Loja, cima del cerro... Parroquia: Tarqui
Photo: Christian Brückmann
History: In the sketch made by
Dionisio Alcedo y Herrera in 1541 there
were three hills: Santa Ana, San Cristobal
and San Lazaro, currently Carmen Hill. In
the latter, the General Cemetery was built
to evoke the biblical passage of the resurrection of San Lazaro (Saint Lazarus).
On top of the hill is the statue of Christ
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crafted by Spanish sculptor, Juan Avalos.
Stairways were put at the sides of the monument symbolizing the ascension of Jesus
to Golgotha with bas-reliefs representing
the Passion of Christ.
Attractions: Monument to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Carmen Hill / Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Monument to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Address: ascending street to Carmen Hill, next to the Julian Coronel street and Loja street. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The monument was crafted by
Spanish sculptor Juan Avalos and was inaugurated in 1973. It dates back to 1954 when the
Catholic Church, headed by the Bishop of Guayaquil, Monsignor Antonio Mosquera, decided
to construct it to commemorate the 100 years
of the consecration of the Ecuador to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. This was carried out during the administration of President Gabriel Garcia Moreno.
The construction of the sculpture had several mishaps that delayed its completion. From
the day its construction was decided, 19 years
passed until it was finished. Finally, on October 8, 1973, the Bishop of the City, Monsignor
Bernardino Echeverria, inaugurated the work
on the same day of the celebration of the 100
years of the consecration of the Ecuador to the
Stairways and
Sacred Heart of Jesus.
To complement the monument, Spanish architect Juan Antonio Orus built an 11-meter
concrete base in 1965. The statue rests on it
and also has stairways that lead to the highest
point of the monument.
Attractions: tThe work is a symbol
of the city, and is considered among the twelve
most representative places of the city. This
was decided in a contest promoted by private
companies to choose the seven wonders of
Guayaquil. It also serves as a lookout point.
The imposing image of copper and iron
stands out with its height of 27 meters (15.6
meters in height, base 11.6). There are also the
fourteen stations of the Via Crucis (the Way of
the Cross) that are traveled on foot.
Via Crucis
History: As a complementary work to
the Monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
the Municipality of Guayaquil, between
2004 and 2005, reconstructed the lookout
and the 166 steps that lead to the Christ.
Therefore, the monument that had suffered
the passing of time was rescued and turned
into a tourist site.
Attractions: The bas-reliefs of the
fourteen stations of de Via Crucis (The Way
of the Cross) can be seen in the stairways.
The sculptures are the work of Chilean Jorge
Muñoz. Muñoz designed the pieces made of
resin and fiberglass, and they were crafted
by sculptor Hans San Andres Tabara. They
have an iron structure of 150 meters high
and 250 wide, supported by two wooden
poles inserted in two steel bases.
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Simon Bolivar
Pier
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue, in front of the Guayas river. From south to north: from
Cuenca street to Las Peñas Neighborhood.
Parishes: Tarqui, Carbo, Rocafuerte and Olmedo.
History: Its history dates back to the
year of 1820, when the pier was called La Orilla
street. In 1845 it was a mile and a half long
and had wooden seats and iron-forged lanterns
to illuminate it. In 1906 the Municipality built
a containment wall between Las Peñas and
Colon street, where the former La Orilla market
was located.
Traditionally, it was the first image of the
city for the tourists who arrived to Guayaquil by
boat because travelling by river was the main
way of communication back then. At first it was
named “Paseo de las Colonias Extranjeras” (The
Promenade of Foreign Colonies) by a municipal
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Simon Bolivar Pier /
ordinance issued in 1931. Then, the name was
changed to Malecón Simon Bolivar in honor of
the liberator of five American nations.
Since 1999, during the administration of
Leon Febres Cordero, the Municipality of Guayaquil started the process of urban regeneration. And in 2000, during the administration
of Mayor Jaime Nebot, the project was culminated. A work that changed the image of the
city to became a tourist icon.
The Simon Bolivar Pier is a great place to enjoy the river landscape and an entertainment
site for the families of Guayaquil.
The pier known as Malecon 2000 (Boardwalk
2000), is one of the most successful urban
projects of America, considered as a world
reference and declared as a “healthy public
space” by the Pan-American Health Organization (OPS, for its Spanish acronym) and the
World Health Organization (OMS, for its acronym in Spanish).
ATTRACTIONS: This urban park, full
of nature, history, tradition and modernism
is a tourist attraction that has an extension
of 2.5 kilometers (26 blocks), in which can
be found gardens, artificial lagoons, water
fountains, lookout points, docks, squares,
historic monuments like The Rotunda Hemicycle, the Moorish Tower, the Glorious Dawn
Monument and the Statue of Olmedo. There
are museums, a cinema, shopping malls,
restaurants, bars, food courts, playgrounds
and all the attractions, services and comfort
that a tourist needs to enjoy a tour of the
city. River tours are also offered through the
Guayas River.
Services: Security staff, restrooms,
parking lots.
Visiting Hours: Open daily from 06h00
until 24h00.
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Latin-American Integration
Square
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Cuenca street. Parish: Olmedo.
History: The name was decided by a
Resolution of the Cantonal Council because
it was the venue for the Second Meeting of
South-American Presidents held in July of 2002.
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Attractions: The Square is home to
the Crystal Palace, the Square of the Flags, the
traditional Church of San Jose and the crafts
market. The Square of the Flags is formed by
Simon Bolivar Pier / Latin-American Integration Square
Photo: Archivo Efrén Avilés P.
the standards of the 24 provinces of the country. The national flag is placed in the center
with a higher mast that symbolizes the union
between Ecuadorians. The Square has resting
areas. Within its surroundings are two busts
representing prominent American characters.
One is of Mexican Benito Juarez Garcia, president of his country several times. The other
is of Chilean military Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme, liberator of Chile.
Services: The crafts market has 24
shops that offer many samples of national
folklore at very reasonable prices. There
are crafted manually by Ecuadorian artisans
in materials like cloth, leather, ceramic,
wood, stone, tagua and toquilla straw.
Visitors can find clothing, hats, jewelry,
ornaments, souvenirs, musical instruments
and the very famous Panama Hats made of
toquilla straw.
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Old South Market
(Crystal Palace)
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Manabi street, Integration Square. Parish: Olmedo
History: It was declared Historic Monument of the city by the then Parish Board. In
recent times it was declared Historic Heritage
of the City. The place was built as a food market
between the years of 1905 and 1907 and was
inaugurated on January 6, 1908. The market
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was transformed into the Crystal Palace that
was inaugurated on February 26, 2002, after the completion of the urban regeneration
program, carried out by the Municipality of
Guayaquil.
The reviews say that the Old South Market
Simon Bolivar Pier/ Old South Market (Crystal Palace)
was designed and built by engineers Francisco
Manrique Pacanis and Carlos Van Ischot. The
pieces used for its construction were brought
from Brussels, Belgium, and were pre-manufactured by the firm Verhaeren Ca Jager Ingenerius Construiters de Bruxelles.
The market was remodeled on two occasions,
and operated for almost a century, making it
important. Additionally in those times and
right before the urban regeneration, the market handled mainly river cargo, principally for
fishing.
Its relevance lies in its building, which is a
beautiful example of pre-manufactured iron.
Attractions: Located in front of
the Guayas River, the Crystal Palace is completely transparent with an original wrought
iron structure. Two glass urns highlight its
metallic structure. It is an exhibition and convention center that has contributed to culture
and the arts by hosting exhibitions of great
artists like Rembrandt, Picasso, Guayaquil,
Rendon, Seminario and other famous artist
of America and the world. Within its contours
water fountains are formed which reflect the
beautiful structure of a cobblestone square
located on Sargento Vargas street.
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San José Church
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Eloy Alfaro avenue between Huancavilca and Manabi streets. Parish: Olmedo.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / San José Church
• Interior of the Church San José with its
arches and beautiful sculptures by artist
Enrico Pacciani.
der the direction of Venezuelan engineer, Francisco Manrique, and was completed in 1926, as
can be read in the inscription engraved in its
façade on Eloy Alfaro Avenue. Italian Francesco
Maccaferri designed the temple’s façade.
History: Initially it was located between Pedro Carbo and Aguirre streets, until
1902 when a fire reduced it to ashes. The construction of the new church started in 1905 un-
Attractions: At the top of the
façade, the initials AMGD are engraved, from
the Latin phrase Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (to
the greater glory of God). In the center, a
monogram can be observed with the initials of
the expression Jeshu, the Sun-man, which can
also be translated as “Jesus the Man of Light.”
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Photo: Raúl Suconota
Olmedo Square
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar and Olmedo Boulevard. Parish: Olmedo.
History: The Square pays tribute to
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo, hero of Guayaquil,
former mayor of the city and precursor of the
Revolution of October 9, 1820.
Attractions: The monument is
placed within a group of cylindrical water fountains and next to the traditional Union Club, a
meeting place of Guayaquil’s society, founded
in 1869. The Square has several lookout points
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and a terrace in front of the river that connects with other places of the pier through a
pedestrian wooden bridge. Benches have been
placed along the corridors for people to rest,
and next to them giant skylights that give the
place a maritime style.
Services: It has the Malecon Shopping
Mall, whose architectural design resembles a
boat. Both the top and bottom floors have river
views, several shops and food courts. It also
has security and sanitary facilities.
Monument to
Photo: César Mera
José Joaquín
de Olmedo
History: Its historical background
dates back to the year of 1878, when the
Municipal Council decided to build the monument and appointed a commission denominated “Olmedo Committee” to manage
the construction. Fourteen years later, on
October 9, 1892, the monument was solemnly inaugurated. French sculptor Jean
Alexander Falguiere crafted the statue.
French architect George Chedanne carved
the granite base that supports it.
Attractions: A circular space surrounds the statue, in which two cannons
stand out that seem to protect the outstanding patriot. A base that reaches a height of
817 meters supports it, which weighs 11
tons and was crafted in bronze. Olmedo is
seated in a unique position. He is looking at
the river giving his back to the city, seated in
a chair leaning forward as if to get up, with a
pen in his right hand while holding the Poem
of Junin in his left hand.
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Union Club
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue and Olmedo Boulevard. Parish: Olmedo.
History: The traditional Social Club of
Guayaquil was founded on July 25, 1869. From
its beginnings it was a stellar place within
the social life of the city. Alongside the fire
department and the Philanthropic Society of
Guayas, it is the third oldest institution of
service to the city.
The club was born as a result of meetings
held by a group of young people at the warehouses of Tomas Gagliardo. Its purpose was to
promote sports instead of the political gatherings that were common in those days. The first
headquarters was located between Malecon
and 9 de Octubre Avenues. For several reasons
the club was moved to different places until
the first decade of the 20th century when it was
transferred to its current location.
With more than a century of existence, the
club has maintained an illustrious trajectory,
based on the efforts of those who have been
its members. Some of the members have exercised the presidency of the country. Through
the years, it has been the center of fellowship,
gatherings, friendship, culture, business and
social life for this port city.
The Union Club has also worked in benefit of
the less fortunate and has become a heritage
of the city.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Union Club
Morgan Ship
[ TOURIST RIDES TROUGH THE RIVER ]
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Sucre street.
Attractions: A ride through the river
in a pirate’s ship that tours emblematic sites of
the city like Santa Ana Port, Las Peñas Neighborhood, Malecon 2000 with all its attractions,
Santay Island, Caraguay Market (south of the
city), among others. The pirate-themed ship
has room for 160 passengers and an exclusive
area for 60 people. It offers tours like family
rides, events, and the so-called “Pirate’s Parties” that are one hour rides and include shows
and an open bar.
Tours: Family rides: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays: 16h00 – 18h00 – 19h30;
Fridays: 16h00 – 18h00 – 19h30 – 21h30;
Saturdays: 12h30 – 14h00 – 16h00 – 18h00
– 19h30 – 21h30; Sundays: 12h30 – 14h00
– 18h00 – 19h30; Holidays: 12h30 – 14h00 –
16h00 – 18h00 – 19h30.
Pirate’s party: Thursdays: 21h30 – 23h30;
Fridays and Saturdays: 23h30 -02h00; Holidays: 23h30.
Prices: Family rides: Adults: $ 7.00, children and the elderly: $5.00. Children under
two years old enter for free. Pirate’s party: all
admissions are $ 15.00; it does not include
beverages and food.
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Civic
Square
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, between 10
de Agosto and Francisco de P. Icaza streets.
Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: It was inaugurated in 1999
as part of the urban regeneration that created
an area of approximately 25 thousand square
meters formed by tree-lined areas with monuments of great historic importance.
Attractions: One of its main architectonic attractions is a vast area (approximately 10 thousand square meters) that was
reclaimed from the river by a reinforced concrete base, on a piling foundation, which faces
the city’s quiet river.
The Civic Square comprises famous monuments like the Rotunda Hemicycle to Bolivar
and San Martin, the Moorish Tower (public
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Civic Square
clock), the President`s Walkway (monuments
to former presidents from Guayaquil) and also
peculiar sculptures like the Wild Boar. It is the
home of two traditional Clubs, the Naval Club
and the Yacht Club that have been incorporated in the project respecting their access
and private requirements. The Square also has
four sculptures that evoke popular culture and
represent the four elements of nature: earth,
air, fire and water. Two of them are transformed
into lookout points, which provide the visitor
a privileged view of the city and its surroundings. There is also an esplanade with a series
of water fountains that create an exceptional
environment at night.
Aurora Gloriosa
Obelisk
Address: Simon Bolivar Pier, next to 10 de Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The obelisk
pays tribute to the Independence of October 9, 1820 and
was inaugurated on October
9, 1999. It was inspired by
the city’s hymn, written by
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo, an
illustrious patriot of Guayaquil, whose verses highlight
the dawn of October 9, 1820,
the day in which the city and
the country achieved their
independence.
According to a an article
published in “El Patriota”
newspaper in 1821, Olmedo, himself, as member
of the “Provisional Board”
of the then “Free Province
of Guayaquil” of 1821, commissioned the construction
of the monument in the
dock of the city. Finally, the
construction was completed
179 years later during the
administration of Mayor
Leon Febres Cordero.
Attractions: The obelisk is made of translucent
marble, the idea conceived
by Olmedo. Its pyramidal
marble structure, which is
semi-submerged in a small
lagoon, refers to the importance of the port that served
as a point of entrance and
departure of vessels. The
stone stairs of the obelisk
are preserved almost intact.
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The Moorish
Tower
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to 10 de
Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
Photo: César Mera
History: Its history dates back to the
18th century with several constructions in
different locations. The first public clock goes
back to 1800. In 1842, Vicente Rocafuerte,
Governor of Guayaquil, brought a clock from
Europe, which is the one located on top of the
Moorish Tower.
Initially, the clock remained at the top of
the Colonial Municipal Building. Later it was
transferred to the Tower of the Market of La
Orilla. When the market disappeared, a special tower was built in the same area and the
clock remained there until 1925. In 1930, the
municipality commissioned the construction
of the Moorish Tower that started on August
1, 1930, to be inaugurated on May 24, 1931.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / The Moorish Tower
The Tower was built by engineer Francisco
Ramon and Architect Joaquin Perez-Nin y
Landin; later, it was remodeled by Architect
Juan Orus. Artist Emilio Emilio Soro crafted
the moldings and ornaments.
After many years broken, on June 7, 2013,
the clock began to run again and ring its bronze
bell on the hour. In this way, the city recovered
this urban jewel.
Attractions: The structure was
built in reinforced concrete and is four stories
high. From its octagonal base of 28 square
meters to its Byzantine style dome, it reaches
a height of 23 meters.
Sculpture to
Juan Pueblo
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to 10
de Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Tungurahua street, inside the Rodolfo Baquerizo
Moreno Square. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: Juan Pueblo is a popular cartoon
character, representative of Guayaquil, created
in 1918 by cartoonist Virgilio Jaime Salinas,
for the Kaleidoscopio column of El Telegrafo
newspaper. Juan Pueblo was identified as the
carrier of the complaints made by the people
of Guayaquil. The cartoon represents the poor
and hardworking man that is looking to move
forward in life.
The character has been modified several times and has illustrated columns in
different newspapers of the country like El
Universo and La Prensa. In the beginning he
was a very thin man, dressed in old clothes,
walked barefoot, and wore a black hat with a
star in the center. A dog as thin as his owner
accompanied him.
When Virgilio Jaime Salinas died in 1959,
Ecuadorian artists Miguel Angel Gomez and
Luis Peña Herrera
Bermeo, published
him in different
newspapers and later
adapted his masterpiece,
Juan Pueblo.
Finally, in 1962, Peña Herrera, well known by
his alias “Robin”, won a contest organized by
El Telegrafo newspaper to continue the work of
Salinas and inherited the character which was
published in his column called “Flechazos”.
In 1992, during the administration of Mayor
Leon Febres-Cordero, Juan Pueblo became the
symbol of the new Guayaquil, leading the civic
campaign “Ahora o Nunca: Guayaquil Vive Por
Ti” (Now or never: Guayaquil lives for you”).
Since then Juan Pueblo is the city’s icon,
dressed in his white guayabera (traditional
shirt worn by the men of Guayaquil), his light
blue pants and his paper cap with the October
star in the center.
In 2011, Mayor Jaime Nebot proposed to
Peña Herrera the idea of perpetuating Juan
Pueblo in a sculpture.
Attractions: The sculpture made of bronze is
a work of Luis Peña Herrera. Juan Pueblo is seated
on a bench. It is located in the Simon Bolivar Pier
next to the Moorish Tower, inside the Civic Square
and in the Pier of the Salado Estuary, inside the
Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno Square.
Monument to
Bartolomé Salom
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Colon
street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: With the objective of highlighting the
values of important persons, a monument in honor
of the Venezuelan patriot, Bartolome Saloom, was
built. He achieved the recognition from Spain of
Guayaquil’s independence and served as the first intendant of the City. He also had the position of Senior
Chief of the south districts and led the pacification
of the province of Ibarra and the takeover of Callao.
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•Air Tower.
•Water Tower.
•Fire Tower.
•Earth Tower.
The Four Elements Towers
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, between 10 de Agosto and Elizalde streets. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: According to narratives of historian Parsival Castro Pita, the aborigine
people of America believed that the four
elements of nature, earth, air, water and
fire, had spiritual qualities. The fire was
synonymous of optimism and courage. The
air symbolized creative imagination. The
water meant the capacity to adapt to circumstances. The earth was synonymous of
the fulfillment of projects. Therefore, the
municipality, during the urban regeneration, built the towers symbolizing the four
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Simon Bolivar Pier / The Four Elements Tower
elements to continue with the ancestral
traditions.
Attractions: The Tower of Water, next
to 10 de Agosto street, is a sculpture that
symbolizes the emotive image of human reflection. The Lookout Tower of Fire, next to
Illingworth Passage, has several balconies
in front of the river that offer a unique view
of the city. The Lookout Tower of Earth, next
to Illingworth street, also has great views of
the city. The symbolic Tower of Air, next to
Elizalde street, is in the shape of a sailboat.
Monument to
Vicente Lecuna
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Aguirre street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: Responding to the request made
by the Municipality in 1965 to the foreign colonies that they provide monuments for the
pier, the Venezuelan Government donated this
statue of Vicente Lecuna. He was a Venezuelan
intellectual, who dedicated his life to study
and to the vindication of the memory of his
compatriot, the liberator, Simon Bolivar.
Wild boar Icon
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Aguirre
Attractions: In the middle of a natural
setting stands an imposing bronze wild boar,
which in the Chinese culture is a symbol of
strength. It has engravings around its hoofs,
depicting small animals like frogs, snakes and
other animals from the jungle.
Photo: Archivo Efren
Avilés P.
History: During the 30’s, the municipality
sent an invitation to the accredited Consulates
of the Country and to the different foreign
colonies, to contribute to the beautification of
the city. The Wild Boar sculptor became possible thanks to a donation made by the Chinese
Colony, which was a reproduction of the original French piece designed by the sculptor,
Beneduce Marin. Copies of this sculptor can
be found, also, in New York City and in various
European cities.
In the bronze pedestal where the Wild Boar
rests there is a plaque that testifies to its antiquity. It reads as follows: “From the Chinese
Colony to the City of Guayaquil. Santon Taysing, General Consul. October 9, 1931.”
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Photo: César Mera
Gallery of the
Presidents from
Guayaquil
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Aguirre street.
Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The sculpture highlights the memory of four former presidents born in Guayaquil: Juan de Dios Martinez Mera, Otto
Arosemena Gomez, Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy and Alfredo
Baquerizo Moreno. Between 2003 and 2004 the municipality, according to their policies, gave the statues a pedagogic importance
to serve as memory devices to build long-lasting nationalist ideas
between the members of the community who built the gallery.
The monument to Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, of sculptor Daniel
Palacio, was initially placed in the Forest Park, south of the city
from September 28, 1959 until 1999 when it was moved to the Civic
Square. The sculptures of Otto Arosemena and Carlos Julio Arosemena, crafted by sculptor Francisco Correa Sojos, were inaugurated on February 13, 2001 and November 12, 2004, respectively.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Gallery of the Presidents from Guayaquil
ALFREDO BAQUERIZO
MORENO
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno was a conservative politician born on September 28,
1859. He passed away on March 20, 1951.
After winning the presidential elections,
Baquerizo Moreno carried out his duties
as president from September 1, 1916 until
August 31, 1920. During his administration he abolished the payment of taxes
established in our colonial period along
with the imprisonment of debtors. He also
built several roads, bridges, and many of
the important hospitals in the country.
As president, Baquerizo Moreno provided
electricity and telephone services to the
cities that lacked such basic services.
During his period he commissioned
the construction of the Monument to
National Heroes of 1820 and increased
the production of cocoa in the country.
OTTO AROSEMENA
GÓMEZ
Juan de Dios Martinez Mera,
was a liberal politician, born
on March 8, 1875, died
on October 27, 1955. He
served as president from
December 5, 1932 until
October 16, 1933, when the
Congress removed him from
his office for not yielding
to the interests of the
legislators. On November
1, 1948, the same Congress
publicly recognized that
they made a mistake. Mera
governed in a time when
the country faced one of the
toughest financial crises
Otto Arosemena Gomez was
born on July 19, 1925 and died
on April 20, 1984. He was appointed president of the country
by the National Assembly on
November 16, 1966, finishing
his term on August 31, 1968.
Among his main works, stand
out the creation of the Ministry
of Public Health, the construction of the National Unity Bridge
and several roads, the extension
of the works in the Port of Manta,
the electrification of Manabi and
the Santa Elena peninsula, and
also the rehabilitation of the
railway Quito-Guayaquil.
Photos0: José Dimitrakis
JUAN DE DIOS
MARTÍNEZ MERA
CARLOS JULIO
AROSEMENA
MONROY
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy was born on August 24,
1919 and died on March 5,
2004. He was president from
November 9, 1961, when
appointed by Congress, until
July 11, 1963, when ousted
by the military who accused
him of “drunkenness”. During
his presidency, telecommunications were modernized,
the construction of roads
were started, the aviation
company Tame was created,
the thirteenth salary was
established, and many laws
were issued for social reform.
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Photo: César Mera
The Rotonda
Hemicycle
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue and 9 de Octubre Boulevard. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Rotunda Hemicycle was
inaugurated on 1938. The sculpture was built
to celebrate the famous “Interview of Guayaquil”, carried out in July 26, 1822, between
the liberators Simon Bolivar and Jose de San
Martin.
Because of its geopolitical importance, its
sheltered port and major shipyard of the south
sea, Guayaquil was chosen as the scene of the
only meeting between these two great men.
The monument’s history dates back to August 16, 1913, when the National Congress decided its construction, a project that was later
archived by the Deputy’s Chamber. Therefore,
three months later on November 29th of that
year, the City Council of Guayaquil decided to
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Simon Bolivar Pier / The Rotonda Hemicycle
plete. It was finished on May of 1938.
The Spanish sculptor Juan Rovira was the
project’s designer. The Phoenix National Construction Society made the pillars of the Rotunda Hemicycle that surround the monument.
The engineer, Francisco Manrique Pacanis, set
the pillars and the statue’s designer was Spanish Jose Antonio Homs.
The World Health Organization declared the
monument as a “Healthy Public Space.”
Attractions: The Monument shows
Bolivar and San Martin, greeting each other,
dressed in military suits while standing in the
middle of the hemicycle formed by ten pillars
and ten columns that have the flags of the
South American countries they liberated.
Monument to the Liberators
Bolivar and San Martin
The Interview of Guayaquil
Photo: César Mera
At the beginning of 9 de Octubre Boulevard
stands one of the city’s most emblematic monuments, which became a tourist icon internationally for evoking the only interview that the
liberators Simon Bolivar and San Martin had
during their lives.
The meeting took place on July 26, 1822,
after the troops of Guayaquil along with the
troops sent by General San Martin from the
south and the ones sent by Simon Bolivar from
the north, achieved the independence of Ecuador on May 24, 1822 with the liberation of
Quito. During the interview, Jose de San Martin
proposed to Simon Bolivar the constitution
of a Great South American Nation based in
Guayaquil, with Chile and Argentina joining
that great union of Free Provinces.
Three days after the interview held in Guayaquil, on July 29, 1822, General Bolivar wrote a
letter to General Francisco de Paula Santander,
vice president of the
Great Colombia, that
said: “San Martin has
offered Colombia his
eternal friendship, to
intervene in favor of
the determination of
territorial limits, not
to be involved with the
issues of Guayaquil, a
complete and absolute
federation, even if it
is only with Colombia,
with the congress based
in Guayaquil…”.
In the letter of July
29, 1822, signed by
Jose G. Perez, secretary
of Bolivar, addressed to
the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs of Colombia, he
expresses having “the honor to communicate
that on July 26 the Protector of Peru came
to the city, and I am in charge to transmit
the important matters that were discussed
between the Liberator and the Protector while
he was here…”.
Paragraph 4 of the letter says: “The Protector expressed that Guayaquil would be a
convenient base for the Federation, which he
considers as the foundation of our existence.
He thinks the government of Chile would have
no difficulty to join it….”
Guayaquil was the key to the South American
independence. In the middle of the liberation
campaign in Colombia, Bolivar hoped that an
army from the south might open the way to
freedom; while, San Martin, who was in Lima,
aspired that an army from the north might permit total independence. The happy news came
from the Glorious Dawn of October 9, 1820.
Following the interview of Guayaquil,
3000 men that were
recruited from the
coastal region of the
country, departed to
Peru with uniforms
made by the women
of Guayaquil and with
a generous financial
contribution by the
inhabitants of the
city for their transportation. These men
were glorified in the
battlefields of Junin
and Ayacucho. It’s
fair to say that South
America had three liberators: Bolivar, San
Martin and Guayaquil!
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Wagon
Square
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar
avenue, next to P. Icaza street.
Parish: Pedro Carbo.
Atractions: Wagon Square
has a replica of a train wagon from
the National Train Corporation. It
can be accessed through a waiting platform with a pergola. The
square has several recreational
spaces along with games for children. It also has a roller-skating
rink that can be accessed independently from the play area.
Fountain of
Junin street
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue next to
Junin street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
History: This set of four fountains date
back to 1935, when they were donated to the
city by the consulate body of the time. Such
action was carried out due to the request of
the municipality with the goal to beautify the
pier. It was named as the “Colony Walkway”.
Attractions: This iron casted fountain
was brought from France back in 1892. Currently it has been restored following the structure of its original form.
Services: Near by are coffee shops, food,
and public restrooms.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Wagon Square
The Pan and the Bacchus
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue next to Luzuriaga street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
god Bacchus, the god of wine, who participated
in the so called bacchanals. The woman is leaning against a smiling Pan, the Roman god of
the fields and shepherds.
Attractions: Work done in Carrara marble.
It highlights the formal composition of the
sculpture set.
Foto: Archivo Efren Avilés
History: In 1918 the Ecuadorian sculptor,
Luis Veloz, crafted the monument inspired by
the visit of Spanish dancer Tortola Valencia,
who between 1922 and 1930 performed in
the Olmedo and Eden theaters. Its sensuality evokes one of the most ancient myths of
humanity, which has as its main element a
sensual nude bacchant in ecstasy. In ancient
Rome bacchants were women followers of the
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Botanical Gardens
of the Simon Bolivar Pier
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue next to Imbabura street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
Attractions: These gardens occupy an area of 22,000 square meters. Visitors
can appreciate the diversity of over 350 native
species of plants and those that have been
introduced to the country. It has an artificial
stream and a lagoon with ducks, geese and fish.
The area also has a group of walking paths of
1.5 kilometers in length, which are flanked
by large trees that offer shade. In addition,
throughout the paths there are fountains,
bridges, ramps, quiet areas for meditation and
rest, lookouts, docks, platforms and pergolas.
The location has a loudspeaker system used for
special occasions that recreates natural sounds
corresponding to the botanical areas.
Services: The walking paths are designed
to accommodate the movement of the elderly,
the handicapped, and children. Also there are
directional and informational signs, security,
control, surveillance, restaurants, bars, and
restrooms.
Photos: Carlos Julio González
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Simon Bolivar Pier /Botanical Gardens
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Neo Classic
Square
Address: Simon Bolivar Pier next to Imbabura and Tomas Martinez streets.
Parish: Pedro Carbo.
Attractions: The Neoclassic
Square is surrounded by the Botanical Gardens
of the Pier, which provides the place with an
immense beauty. It is represented by a bronze
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Simon Bolivar Pier /Neo Classic Square
fountain with a marble floor surrounded by
lights of crystal and iron, originals from the old
Simon Bolivar Pier before its renovation, which
gives the square a romantic appeal.
Bust to
Pedro Franco Dávila
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue next
to Imbabura street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
History: The bust was crafted to
honor Pedro Franco Davila who was a wise
naturalist born in Guayaquil (Guayaquil
1711-Madrid 1786), and founder of the
Museum of Natural History of Madrid. The
name of the sculptor that crafted the bust
is unknown, and it’s a copy of the sculpture at the Madrid Museum, where the ancient Royal Cabinet operated after being
founded with the art collections of this
remarkable person. The bronze sculpture,
revealed in 1987, was brought from Spain
as a gift to the city, by the writer Maria
de los Angeles Calatayud, author of the
book “Pedro Franco Davila and the Royal
Cabinet of Natural History”.
Initially the monument was located in
the Malecon Simon Bolivar, near Villamil
street until the year 2002 when it was
transferred to the Botanical Gardens of
the Malecon Simon Bolivar.
Photo: Efrén Avilés P.
Attractions: The statue is supported
by a white crushed-stone base; it represents the famous naturalist of Guayaquil
dressed like the knights of the 16th century, wearing a wig, a necktie, a cassock
and a cape.
Located in the middle of the green area of
the pier, the square has the original trees existing before the renovation, approximately
150 plant species. Also, 200 new ones were
planted. There are 4 areas: the first one for
ornamentals, the second for trees of the rain
forest, the third for palms and the fourth for
conifers and others.
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Bust to Commander
Rafael Moran
Valverde
History: This monument honors the Commander Rafael Moran Valverde, the greatest
hero of the Ecuadorian navy that led a group of
brave marines, like no other, in the naval fight
of Jambeli during the war with Peru in 1941.
Moran Valverde was born in Guayaquil on
April 5, 1904 and died on May 2, 1958. He
commanded the Calderon gunboat, an inferior
ship compared to its rival the “Admiral Villar”,
a ship six times its size, with weapons ten times
more powerful and with more range than the
Ecuadorian vessel. Despite this disadvantage,
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to Padre
Aguirre street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
the small gunboat gave victory to the Ecuadorian Navy Fleet, thus becoming an example of
nobility, honor, courage and heroism.
Bust to Captain
Arturo Pratt
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next to
Padre Aguirre street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Bust
History: The city’s port location
started the idea of an American brotherhood, symbolized through monuments
of important personalities of sister
cities. The Municipality of that time
requested the foreign embassies to donate such monuments. This custom has
remained until today and in 2003 the
Government of Chile, his naval fleet and
his people, according to the plaque, donated this monument to Guayaquil “as a
testimony of their lasting friendship.”
Captain Arturo Pratt Chacón is the
greatest navy hero of Chile, a man who
gave his life for the country in glorious
battle during the conflicts that took
place in the Rada de Iquique on May
21, 1879.
Photo: César Mera
Cinema Malecón (IMAX)
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, near Loja street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
History: The Malecon Cinema operates in
the facilities of the old IMAX movie theater,
which was inaugurated on March, 2013. It
offers projections in two formats: digital Advance 3D and IMAX (Image Maximum), with its
format of 15/70 mm.
Attractions: The movie theater has a
modern and powerful high tech projector that
projects movies in 3D digital format with the
best image definition in the city. This system
can project two 4K movie formats for the 3D
advanced room and is complemented by 3D
glasses, Active Lenses Edge Volfoni 1.2 with
liquid crystal technology.
The benefit of the IMAX systems is the ability
to project images of bigger size and better definition than the traditional systems. Guayaquil
has the honor of being the first city of South
America to have an IMAX theater.
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Anthropological Museum Of Contemporary Art
(MAAC)
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar near Loja street. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
History: The Anthropological Museum of
Contemporary Art (MAAC), integrated to the
Simon Bolivar Cultural Center, was inaugurated
on July 30, 2003.
Its objective is to reinforce the cultural heritage of the city with collections that date from
the aborigine period to the present modern
times. The museum also offers comprehensive
programs like exhibitions, forums, cinematographic projections, and performing arts. It
has an auditorium with a capacity for 400 people and an open space for outdoor presentations, which helps its purpose of promoting the
cultural heritage at the service of the country.
Attractions: A place rich in art and culture that exhibits all the ancient treasures of
the Pre-Columbian cultures of Ecuador and
Latin America. The exhibition is composed by
50,000 archeological native Ecuadorian pieces
from the aborigine period of the Ecuadorian
coast between the year 8,000 before Christ and
1,400 after Christ. There is also another collection with over 3,000 works of modern art.
The building, surrounded by an artificial
pond, has an architectural design in the shape
of a pre-Columbian raft typical of the Manteña–
Huancavilca culture, indigenous people of the
Ecuadorian coast. In its front there is a mural of
the painter Manuel Rendon Seminario, whose
design was done in pastel.
Services: It offers permanent exhibitions
of archeology, history of Ecuador, galleries of
contemporary art, and also a small library of
national authors. Its auditorium is frequently
used for cultural events.
Visiting Hours: Mondays to Fridays from
08:30 till 16:30, Saturdays and Sundays from
09:00 till 17:00.
• Salas Precolombinas
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Simon Bolivar Pier / Anthropological Museom of Contemporary Art
Memorial to President
Leon Febres-Cordero
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar near General Vernaza street. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The memorial is like an obelisk
with a memory plaque, which was set on
March 15, 2012. It reflects the thoughts
of Leon Febres Cordero, who was president
of Ecuador from 1984 to 1988. He was also
Mayor of the city of Guayaquil from 1992
until 2000. During his administration, the
urban regeneration process of the city began; he also reconstructed the Malecon Simon Bolivar.
The quote printed on the plaque was
stated in October 9, 1999 and says: “From
deep within my soul, I ask the people of Guayaquil, to defend, with the courage that we
are known for, what has cost us so dearly,
that Guayaquil may never be the spoils of
piracy, that there will always be men and
women willing to give their life to defend
their freedoms for a better tomorrow.”
Attractions: A v-shaped granite prism
made in black marble.
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Miniature Museum
Guayaquil in History
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, near Loja street. Visiting Hours: Tuesdays to Sundays from 09:00
until 13:30 and from 16:00 to 20:00, the tour lasts approximately 45 minutes.
History: This museum is a joint project
between the Municipality of Guayaquil and the
Foundation Malecon 2000 with the support
of private companies. It was inaugurated on
October 26, 2006. The work belongs to the
sculptor of Guayaquil, Edgar Cevallos Rosales,
whose miniature pieces offer a world of fantasy
that shows the ancient and historical reality
of Guayaquil. It’s amazing detail and beauty
transports the viewer through time, from the
16th century to the present.
The display, which is considered a didactic project and valued between 500 and 600
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thousand dollars, is for tourists of all ages to
know the story of how the city came to be in
an entertaining 45-minute tour.
Attractions: The technique is
called Diorama, which consists of reproducing
real ambiances through small scenarios and
tridimensional characters. It has four buttons
with different functions. When the user presses
one it activates lights and audio that support
the description of the historical event.
In this depiction, the city of Guayaquil can
be seen through its different stages, since the
Simon Bolivar Pier / Miniature Museum Guayaquil in History
• Recreation modern Guayaquil.
the conformation of the republic, the cocoa
boom, and up to today’s cosmopolitan city.
Admission: free.
Fotos: Archivo Municipio
beginning, when the Huancavilcas (aboriginal tribe) inhabited the virgin jungle, pirate
attacks, the great fire that consumed the
city, the events leading to independence,
Photos: Archivo Dirección de Prensa del Municipio de Guayaquil
• Recreation Santa Ana hill.
Photos: Archivo Dirección de Prensa del Municipio de Guayaquil
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La Merced Square
Address: Victor Manuel Rendon street and Pedro Carbo avenue. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
History: Its history goes back to
the 19th century, to the year 1850, when
it was called La Merced Square due to the
church that had the same name, built by
the Mercedarian Order. Like many places in
Guayaquil, the Great Fire of October 5 and
6 of 1896 that destroyed half of the city
also affected the square.
Around the 20th century, the square was
rapidly rebuilt since it was located in an
important area of the city. It was inaugurated on August 11, 1907, in the same
exact place. Two years later on October
9, 1909, a monument was inaugurated to
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honor the memory of Pedro Carbo, Ecuadorian politician, diplomat and writer.
Attractions: The Square is
known for its elegant design of low fences
and small gardens that surround a lantern
placed in the spot where the monument
now stands. The gardens have mango,
almond and acacia trees. The lighting
blends well with the architecture of the site
since the light bulbs are above a forgediron pedestal. There are also iron-forged
benches with wooden designs on which
the visitor can rest.
Monument to
Pedro
Carbo
Address: Victor Manuel Rendon street
and General Cordova Avenue, City’s
downtown. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
Attractions: The monument,
crafted in two colors of Carrara marble, gray for the base and white for the
statue, is considered one of the most
beautiful statues of the city. It depicts
Pedro Carbo, renowned citizen of Guayaquil, elegantly dressed, standing in
front of a chair, with the liberal creed
in one hand ready to give a speech. Its
decoration is simple but full of meaning. A column pedestal, whose front
is adorned with a woman sitting on a
bench that represents the Republic,
supports the statue.
History: The monument is the work
of Italian Augusto Faggioni Vannuncci,
which was inaugurated on October 9,
1909. The history of the statue goes
back to the final days of 1894, three
days after Carbo’s death, which occurred
on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1894,
when, during an extraordinary session
of the Municipality, it was decided to
craft the statue. The following year, a
committee was appointed to carry out
the work. Fourteen years passed until
the statue was inaugurated on October
9, 1909, before an excited crowd.
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Town Center / La Merced church
• The altar of the church is coated with gold leaf.
La Merced Church
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Victor Manuel Rendon street and avenue Pedro Carbo. Parish: Pedro Carbo.
At t rac t io n s :
Gothic pointed arches constructed with the same style
used to erect the beautiful
cathedrals of medieval
times. In the left nave there is a painting done
around 1800 or perhaps towards the end of the
1790’s. It represents the image of the Virgin of
La Merced wearing the habit with the Templar
Cross of Four Arms which evokes one of the
most illustrious religious orders of knights that
emerged in Europe around the 10th century.
Located in the apse area, the visitor can find
one of the wonders of universal art: An allegory
of the Eucharist masterfully crafted by Italian
sculptor Enricco Pacciani.
To observe the capitals decorated with flowers and angels that are located at the top part
of the pillars that support the gothic archivolts, is to admire the harmonious proportions
of its three naves.
• The Eucharist,
sculpture made in
marble, by Enrico
Pacciani expresses
the sensitivity and
gentleness of the
characters.
History: The first building of the
Mercedarian Order was located in the former
Church of La Concepcion, currently the location of the Firefighters Museum. The second
building was on Victor Manuel Rendon street,
and the third one in what was known as the
Shipyard Chapel, currently San Alejo Church,
located in Eloy Alfaro and Luzarraga streets.
The current location dates back to 1787, according to the “Anonymous Sketch”, published
in the historic guide of Julio Estrada. Back then
it was located in Tigre
street, currently Victor
Manuel Rendon street.
Architect Paolo Russo
led the construction between 1934 and 1936.
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San Francisco Square
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Pedro Carbo avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Square, one of the
oldest of the city, was built in the so-called
New Town, around the 18th century, in the
year 1702. During that time the Religious
Order of Franciscans moved to the location
and built their church, following the custom
of the time. On January 1, 1880 the first
statue that Guayaquil had was placed in
the square, a sculpture of patriot Vicente
Rocafuerte. Therefore, the square was also
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known as Rocafuerte Square.
Attractions: The square houses
the San Francisco Church and the first statue
of Guayaquil that pays tribute to Vicente
Rocafuerte. The site is adorned with a water
fountain, surrounded by trees and classic
lanterns. Several administrative and commercial buildings like banks and businesses
are located in the vicinity of the square.
Monument to
Vicente
Rocafuerte
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Pedro
Carbo avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
Attractions: Located over a water fountain, the monument crafted in bronze, depicts
Rocafuerte in a reflecting mood, dressed in a
roman cape with his arms folded. In his hands
he holds one of the many manuscripts that
made him famous. The pedestal shows images
allusive to the life of the character; among
those is the image of Rocafuerte surrounded by
adults, children and an angel. At the bottom of
the bas-reliefs is the image of a Greek temple
with Corinthian columns.
Among the images carved in the bas-reliefs, are those that show the period of the
yellow fever that assailed the city in 1842
and claimed thousands of lives. Rocafuerte,
as Governor of Guayas, defied his own life to
lead a fight against the sickness and avoid a
worse scenario.
History: The monument, inaugurated on
January 1, 1880 pays homage to one of the
most recognized Americans in history for his
free and independent spirit, the patriot Vicente Rocafuerte. He was the first Ecuadorian
president born in the country. He was also
Governor and Mayor of Guayaquil.
History tells us that in 1870 the ‘Pro Monument’ committee hired the French sculptor
Aime Millet to craft the statue, but the work
was delayed for several years. In 1879, the site
for the monument was designated, and on November 8 of the same year, the statue arrived
to the city. The next year, 1880, during the first
day of the year, a grand ceremony was held to
celebrate the first monument that Guayaquil
had. This monument is still the city’s pride.
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San Francisco Church
Our Lady of the Angels
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Pedro Carbo avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
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Town Center / San Francisco Church
History: The church was built
during the first decade of the 18th century.
History tells us that the construction of the
temple is connected with the transfer of the
Franciscan Order to the New Town, which had
several mishaps. The Municipality, at that
time, did not allow its settlement because it
did not met the limits of the city. However,
with the influence of the priests, they were
able to establish themselves. The church
was remodeled many times because of fires
and the passing of time. Engineer Modesto
Luque Rivadeneira, following the architectural lines of the former wooden church of
1900, built the current temple in 1956.
Attractions: The church has an
eclectic style. A main gate and two lateral
entrances form its façade. Two pilasters
that hold the entablature and pediment
set the main gate framework. The side
doors have a rectangular shape and above
them a lintel with triangular pediments.
The upper body has three large windows
with arches and its pediment is topped by
a large cornice on which two-squared base
towers are set, reaching a green-tiled dome.
The church also has three naves, each one
ending in a main altar and side altars that
are separated by colonnades, and over its
body is a dome held by a circular lintel beam
window. In the interior of the church there
are paintings and sculptures related to the
Catholic faith.
• The altar of the San Francisco church.
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Seminario
Park
Address: Chimborazo avenue and Clemente
Ballen street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: During the Colonial times the
Seminario Park was the Arms Square of the then
called New Town, which was established after
moving from the old town that was located at
the foot of Santa Ana Hill, in 1690.
The paving blocks evoke the urban images
of the colonial times.
In 1692, the Municipality started the layout
of the park by demarcating the boundaries of
the Arms Square and the construction of the
main church that was completed in 1695 right
in the place where the Cathedral is located
today.
The square kept that name for almost two
centuries until the first half of the 18th century. During that time several patriotic events
were held in the park, and also bullfights,
among others.
During the 19th century, in 1868, the current
park was built. Its floor had a large star of eight
points, and for this, it was called Plaza de la
Estrella (Star Square). Twenty-one years later,
in 1889, an equestrian monument in honor of
Simon Bolivar was built; thus, the square was
renamed as Bolivar Square. By 1895, the philanthropist Manuel Seminario made a patriotic
donation with the purpose of giving the statue
a dignified enclosure such as a closing gate,
benches, lanterns, among other things. After
this the park was completely renovated, and
took the surname of this citizen.
Attractions: Also known as Parque
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de las Iguanas (Iguana Park) due to the reptiles that live in that place. The site has its
own charm because of its natural environment
formed by large palm trees, almond trees, and
an artificial lagoon in which goldfish swim.
There are also several statues.
The main monument is the one of Simon
• Parque Seminario
Bolivar mounted on a horse. In the southeast
corner there is a sculpture of two wild boars
fighting, donated by the Chinese colony and
designed by French sculptor Virgil Chaudejeaug. Near the gate that overlooks Clemente
Ballen street is the famous octagonal “Roundabout” built of wrought iron and casted in the
workshops of Van Dosme of France in 1882.
The sculpture of Moorish-style is adorned with
allegorical filigree, whose top is crowned by an
ornamentation of iron with a red central dome.
The site has been used for several cultural
events including the performance of musical
bands of the city during the holidays.
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Photo: Juan Carlos González
Equestrian Monument to the
Liberator Simon Bolivar
Address: Chile street and 10 de Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: According to history, responding
to an initiative taken by the company of firefighters “Salamander”, on November 3, 1872,
the Governor’s Office decided to form a committee to be responsible for building a statue
in honor of the Liberator.
The sculpture was done by the Italian sculptor Giovanny Anderlini, and the mounting and
construction of the base was carried out by
architect Rocco Queirolo.
The work was casted in the Roman workshop
“Nelly” and departed from Genoa to Ecuador by
sea on July 9, 1888. And the next day, the first
stone was placed at the base of the monument.
The work ended more than one year later. And
on July 24, 1889, the day in which 106 years
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Seminario Park
since the birth of Bolivar was celebrated, the
monument was inaugurated with the president
of the country, Antonio Flores Jijon, present.
Attractions: The sculpture, work of Italian sculptor Giovanny Anderlini, shows the
liberator Simon Bolivar riding a horse, wearing
his military suit, and greeting his people. The
statue, of 4.25 meters in height and 30 tons
of weight, is made of bronze and rests on a
Carrara marble pedestal, which features the
coat of arms of Ecuador. In addition there are
details of great artistic skill, among which are
the facial expressions of Bolivar, the feathers
in his hat, the folds his coat, helmet, as well as
the horse’s mane, tail, and the veins of its legs.
The Iguanas
A natural attraction
Address: Chimborazo avenue and Clemente Ballen street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
Attractions: Seminario Park is also known
as Iguana Park, since dozens of iguanas live in
its ornate gardens. According to tourists they
give a prehistoric, natural ambiance to the
park. The reptiles that measure up to 1 meter
in length are the main attraction of the park
and mingle amiably among the people.
The friendly nature of the green iguana,
known as the “Iguana from Guayaquil, occurs
when the reptile comes down from a tree to
warm itself in an open area and remains still for
about an hour. Since reptiles are cold blooded
they need the warmth of the sun to restore the
energy spent while looking for food. During
this inactive state they assume an upright pose
with the head lifted, fully showing the fold of
skin under their throat.
History: The iguana is a classic species of
Guayaquil, and is seen in different areas of the
city. According to biologists, since the early
days, during colonial times, they established
themselves because the city is near water,
mangroves and willow trees, of which their
fruits are their favorite food. Their presence in
the parks is due to the proximity of the river
and that they are not pursued as food. They
are not considered edible.
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Metropolitan Cathedral
The Apostle Saint Peter
[ PATRIMONIAL ]
Address: Chimborazo avenue and 10 de Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Metropolitan Cathedral of the
Apostle Saint Peter is located where the main
church of the New Town was settled. From the
former wooden temple, the church bells rang
announcing the Glorious Dawn of October 9,
1820. It was elevated to Cathedral status on
September 14, 1838.
The neo-gothic construction belongs to architect Paolo Russo, who designed it in 1924
for the General Builders Society. Russo led
the project during the first stage until 1934.
From 1941 until 1958, the construction of the
church was overseen by Spanish architect Juan
Orus Madinya (1892-1987) who designed the
façade and carried out the interior project following Russo’s sketches. After 1958, the work
was in the hands of Chilean architect Alamiro
Gonzalez.
In 1949, the central nave was inaugurated
and in 1956 the towers and their respective
needles were completed. A clock was placed
in each tower, one of which signaled the tides
of the Guayas River. During the same year, the
upper stained-glass windows were set, which
showed images of the Apostles and evocations
of the passion of Christ.
The ornamentations of the towers belong to
sculptor Emilio Soro, and the Altar of Perpetual
Aid, built in Carrara marble, is the work of artist
Enrico Pacciani.
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Attractions: If the visitor stops in the
boardwalk of the Seminario Park (Iguana Park),
he will observe in front of him two imposing
towers that end in gothic needles. A little further behind, at the top, there is the statue
of James the Greater. In the center there is a
rosette stained-glass window whose colorful
glass filters light towards the interior creating
a breathtaking effect. Crossing the street right
at the main gate there is a pointed arch that
has, in its lower part, four bas-reliefs representing a bull, an angel, an eagle and a lion,
all with wings, and a book, with symbols of will,
knowledge, silence and bravery.
Photo: César Mera
To walk under the gothic arches is to experience a spatial rhythm and a symphony of light
that comes from the stained-glass windows
made by Guillermo Larrazabal. The church is
full of light, and at the back, the ten steps
that lead to the main altar reveal, silently, the
ten splendors of the Jewish Christian tradition.
When reaching the transept of the two naves,
the visitor will perceive that the temple resembles the crucified body, whose heart reflects
the light that descends from the upper apse.
To the left, there is the altar called Perpetuo
Socorro, crafted in Carrara marble by artist
Enrico Pacciani. In the north area is located
the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, and under
the altar, the burial chamber of the church.
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Administration
Square
Address: Clemente Ballen street and Picnincha avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: It is surrounded by beautiful
heritage buildings such as the Municipal Palace, whose construction dates from 1929, the
Governor’s Palace, built in 1924 and the Martin
Aviles Building, built in 1930. This pedestrian
walkway houses the monument in honor of
Marshal Antonio Jose de Sucre, surrounded by
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the Fountains of Glory and Grace.
There is a group of sculptures in Clemente
Ballen street that evokes the Forge of Vulcan,
meeting in which was sealed the commitment
for the Independence of October 9, 1820. From
the year 2000, the Municipality of Guayaquil
built the square as part of the urban regener-
Fountain of
Peace
Attractions: The fountain is an allegorical symbol of the 18th and 19th centuries. The sculpture depicts an angel wearing
an olive crown that symbolizes the peace
obtained after the fulfillment of duty.
Fountain of
Glory
Address: Pichincha avenue and
Clemente Ballen street.
Attractions: The fountain is an allegorical symbol of the 18th and 19th
centuries. The sculpture shows an angel with a trumpet in his hands that
symbolizes the call to action and the
fulfillment of duty. In his left hand he is
holding a laurel crown, symbol of glory
and triumph.
Attractions: The Arosemena passage way is one of the urban attractions of the
square. The route it takes passes through the
Municipal Palace allowing the visitor to admire
the iron castings, decorative stained-glass
windows, and also the caryatides that flank
its pillars, made by artist Emilio Soro Lenti.
Photo: Raúl Suconota
ation. It was inaugurated on December 27,
2002. Architect Douglas Dreher designed the
square and Angela Saa was in charge of the
development of the project.
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Forge of Vulcan
Monument
Address: Clemente Ballen street and Malecon Simon Bolivar avenue. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The monument was inaugurated
on July 25, 2005 and bears its name to honor
the secret meeting held in October 1, 1820 at
the house of patriot, Jose de Villamil. This encounter marked the beginning of Guayaquil’s
Independence. It was later, called “The Forge
of Vulcan” by patriot Jose de Antepara, who
convened this meeting and compared it to the
Roman god of fire and metal that made and
unmade the yokes and chains.
Attractions: The group of sculptures,
work of the Spanish sculptor Victor Ochoa, is
composed of three elements that relate to each
other in its harmonic conception. The first is
that of the patriot of Guayaquil, Jose Joaquin
de Olmedo, and the other two are of the founding fathers that attended the historical meeting: Luis Urdaneta, Miguel de Letamendi, Leon
de Febres Cordero, Gregorio Escobedo, Juan
Francisco, Antonio Elizalde, Luis Fernando
Vivero, Lorenzo de Garaycoa, Jose de Villamil,
Francisco Maria Roca, Jose de Antepara, Rafael
Maria Jimena and Francisco de Paula Lavayen.
The public can enter the monument and become a part of it, appreciating the sculptures
from the inside out at eye level.
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gusto Faggioni Vannuncci. The sculpture was
built in 1910 and was officially inaugurated on
October 8, 1911. In 2004, it was restored and
relocated to its current site.
History tells that the monument was initiated by the newspaper Los Andes in its edition
of February 3, 1887, in which it expressed the
need to build a statue in honor of this notable patriot and called the public to financially
contribute to the project. Many years after the
idea was proposed, in 1908, The Pro Monument
Committee to General Sucre took the task of
building the statue.
Monument to
Antonio José
de Sucre
Address: Pichincha avenue and Clemente
History: Is dedicated to the so-called “Marshall of Ayacucho”, Antonio Jose de Sucre y Alcala, one of the most distinguished patriots of
America. Its author is the Italian sculptor Au-
Attractions: The statue, in which Sucre
appears dressed in the military uniform of the
time, carrying a sword on his belt and binoculars in his hands, has a height of 8.50 meters
and is supported by a base that has two bronze
plaques to the sides and the coat of arms of
Ecuador at the front, flanked with the phrase
“To Sucre-Guayaquil”.
The statue of Sucre stands above a pedestal
whose lower part is of granite and marble. At
the top of the pedestal, toward the front, there
is a high-relief in bronze that represents the
battle of Pichincha, in which the figures of
General Jose Maria Cordova, riding a horse, and
Lieutenant Abdon Calderon, stand out among
a group of fighters.
Abolition of
Slavery
Torch
Photo: Efrén Avilés M
Address: Pedro Carbo avenue and Clemente
History: The monument pays tribute to the
decree to abolish slavery in Ecuador, issued by
former President Jose Maria Urbina in 1851. It
is based on the recital of the Decree that says,
“That the few slaves that still exist are a contradiction to the republican institutions that
we have conquered and adopted since 1820.”
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Municipal
Palace
Address: Simon Bolivar avenue and 10 de
Agosto street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Municipal Palace is located at the same place where the Consistorial
House was, where the city’s declaration of independence was signed, on October 9, 1820. That
building operated from the beginning of 1817
until 1908 when it was decided to burn it down.
The municipality moved to a building located
at 10 de Agosto street and Pedro Carbo street.
In 1924, a contest was convened to build the
new headquarters, which was won by Italian
architect Francisco Maccaferri, who gave the
project a renaissance look.
The General Builders Society was in charge of
the work, in which the engineer Juan Lignarolo
and Italian architects Paolo Russo and Juan
Orus participated, following the design made
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by Maccaferri. Engineers Winderling, Coppe
and L’abatelignarolo made the structural calculations, and land surveying was overseen by
Arnaldo Ruffili.
The first stone was placed on October 31,
1925 and the building was inaugurated on
February 27, 1929 to commemorate the Battle of Tarqui and the signing of the Treaty of
Guayaquil. During the same year, the Palace
was the venue for the celebration carried out
by president Isidro Ayora in honor of the then
elected United States President, Herbert Clark
Hoover, who arrived to the city by the ship,
Maryland.
Attractions: In the upper triangle
Photo: Calos Julio González
Arosemena
Passageway
History: The Arosemena Passageway
was named in honor of the banker and
first president of the Welfare Board of
Guayaquil, Eduardo Arosemena Merino.
It passes through the Municipal Building
connecting it with Malecon Simon Bolivar and Pichincha Avenue.
It has an iron and glass dome, with
crystals imported from the Adolfi House
of Milan, Italy. Following the Hellenic
tradition, the external pillars of the
building depict female figures that symbolize the soul that holds the spiritual
light represented in the translucent dome
of iron and glass.
At the beginning of its octagonal
dome, there are four polychromatic seals
with mandala style (geometric) octagonal figures, which are representative of
the collective aesthetic tradition of the
Renaissance.
of the north façade, beautiful sculptures can
be appreciated, which belong to sculptor
Emilio Soro Lenti. The woman at the east has
a book and a manuscript between her hands,
which are the symbol of knowledge.
The figure facing the west holds the wheel
of industry that evokes the comprehension
of life; and also the compass, representing
architecture. The Coat of Arms of Santiago
the Greater, patron saint of the city, stands
out for its beautiful wood carving, which
was placed in the Municipality in 1999. Originally, it was located in the Metropolitan
Cathedral of San Pedro Apostol (Saint Peter
the Apostle), but was taken from its façade
in 1943 to be donated to the Municipality.
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Gobernor's
Palace
Address: Simon Bolivar avenue and Aguirre
Attractions: It has an architecture
characterized by various styles. The arches of
the central corridor have columns with Corinthian capitals.
The building is divided into four blocks,
joined by two galleries of iron and glass going east, west, north and south. Its neoclassical style is distinguished by the triumphal
arches at the entrance of the galleries, supported by four columns. Italian artist Emilio
Soro Lenti performed the ornamentation,
particularly the carvings of capitals, cornices and moldings.
History: It is located in the blocks
comprised of Aguirre, Malecon Simon Bolivar,
Clemente Ballen and Pichincha streets. The
State Comptroller was located at the same location in 1779.
The previous wood building was one of the
fewest that survived the big fire of 1896 that
started in Aguirre street.
In 1901 the new building was completed
and had three floors. But it was destroyed by
the fire of October 9, 1917 during a city holiday. The construction of the building that now
stands started on December 6, 1921 when the
Government authorized the Treasury Board of
Guayas to reconstruct the building. The project
started on March 26, 1923, and the palace
was inaugurated a year later. Between 1923
and 1924, German architect, Augusto Ridder,
built it following the original layout of Italian
engineer, Mario Gherardi.
During the following decades, various administrations carried out remodeling projects
and maintained the neo-classic style. By 2009,
due to the deterioration of the building, it
underwent several refurbishments until becoming the building that it is today.
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Town Center / Administration Square
JuanParkMontalvo
and bust
Address: Pedro Carbo avenue between Colon street and Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Boulevard.
Parish: Olmedo.
History: The park that houses the bust
was built in honor of Ecuadorian writer
Juan Montalvo Fiallos, a renowned novelist whose liberal thoughts were strongly
marked by his anti-clericalism and opposition to dictators such as Gabriel Garcia
Moreno and Ignacio de Veintimilla.
Its history goes back to the last century,
when the park was placed in what was then
called Industry street, known now as Eloy
Alfaro. There it remained for 85 years, until
2004, when it was moved to the garden
area of the Leon Febres Cordero Walkway, in
the Simon Bolivar Pier, next to Roca street.
Attractions: The site, gives priority to
the natural environment, since there are a
variety of palm trees, mango trees, acacias,
and gardens with colorful plants and ferns.
There is also a pool and a circular area frequented by pigeons. The monument that
honors Montalvo is placed in the center,
which was made by the sculptor from Loja,
Alfredo Palacio Moreno. A round base that
serves as a pedestal supports the bust and
it is located in the middle of a round area
decorated with grass.
Services: The place offers both recreational and commercial services. Since
it is surrounded by shopping malls with
affordable prices, the visitor can tour and
shop at the same time.
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San Alejo Church
[ HERITAGE ]
Address: Eloy Alfaro avenue y Olmedo Boulevard. Parish: Olmedo.
History: Since colonial times, it has
been located in the area called Los Astilleros
(The Shipyards), which were created after the
transfer from the Old Town in 1960. It was
one of the first religious points of reference
of Guayaquil.
Curiously, the pirates entered the small
chapel several times to pray before carrying
out their sordid deeds.
The Mercederian Order constructed the
building out of wood, and its slim tower represents a traditional image of the area located
near the San Carlos Estuary, currently Olmedo
Avenue, which has always been a center of
commercial activity.
Inside its cloister, the vaulted roof and the
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altarpiece have been preserved; however, the
old walls and the wooden floor were rebuilt
in concrete.
In 1786, Priest Salvador Guerrero took the
initiative to build a temple to give spiritual
guidance to the group of naval builders that
was growing rapidly.
The idea began to materialize with the donation of the land by a rich merchant of Guayaquil
by the name of Severino Franco Espinosa. Alejo
Franco donated the image of San Alejo.
Attractions: At the entrance of
Eloy Alfaro Avenue, a love story greets the
visitor: A young girl asked the image of Christ
for a miracle of love. In exchange, she promised
to give the image her curls. The miracle
happened, and since that day, the image
of Jesus has curls. To the left there is a
group of statues crafted in the beginnings
of the 20th century during the time of
liberal and conservative struggles.
A little further there is a bell from one
of the motor vessels that operated on the
cocoa route from Guayaquil to Vinces.
The church maintains the figures of
Santa Martha, the Virgin of La Merced,
the Lords of La Poteria and La Buena
Esperanza, and of San Jose. They are the
oldest and have no body, just a wooden
frame from which the head, arms and
feet emerge because the body of the
figure is formed by cloth upholstery
that covers the frame. There are also
figures made of jute and plaster from the
colonial times like Santa Ana and San
Joaquin, and others made of wood, like
the Virgin of La Merced and the Lord of
Los Azotes. These were made by artisans
of Guayaquil and Cuenca.
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San Agustín
Park
Address: Luis Urdaneta street and Pedro
Moncayo avenue. Parish: Roca.
Attractions: The park has
in its center the monument to the poet
Medardo Angel Silva and has a natural
setting. A towering old ceibo tree stands
to provide shade and to accompany the
native flora of the park, which also has
other species that serve as a dwelling
place to dozens of pigeons that perch on
the square. Another attraction is a small
circular fountain, located under the trees
surrounded by colorful flowers, which
stand out for its natural beauty.
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History: At the beginning of the
20th century, the park was known as the
May 24 Square, a name that was a tribute to the battle of Pichincha, in which
Quito earned its freedom from Spanish
rule. As it was customary in Guayaquil’s
history, it had multiple locations, until
1926 where it is located today in an area
formerly called Barrio de la Soledad. That
same year the name was changed to San
Agustin Square. However, years later
when the bust of the poet from Guayaquil,
Medardo Angel Silva, was moved into it,
the neighborhood began to call it Silva
Square, as the writer lived in the area.
This park that formerly housed circus
tents or where musical performances were
carried out during the Festival of their
Patron San Agustin, Lord of the Good
Hope, children’s carousels with horses
were placed, today looks renovated due
to its fences, iron benches and modern
illumination.
•Monumento a
Medardo
Ángel
Silva en la
Plaza San
Agustín
Monument to
Medardo Ángel Silva
Address: Luis Urdaneta street and Pedro Moncayo avenue. Parish: Roca.
History: The monument crafted by
sculptor Angela Name de Miranda, was
made in honor of the writer, poet, musician and composer from Guayaquil, Medardo Angel Silva Rhodes, born on June
8, 1898 and who died tragically on June
10, 1919. During his short life of 21 years,
he became a literary reference within the
Latin America Modernist Movement for
his work in poetry and prose.
He was part of the so-called “Decapi-
tated Generation,” a literary group from
the first decades of the 20th century, of
which the majority of its members died
tragically by suicide. Their style and
content was manifested in the lyrics by
a marked melancholy known as “the anguish of living” that centers on death.
Among his best-known musical creations are the lyrics of the traditional
pasillo, “El Alma En Los Labios” (The Soul
in the Lips).
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San Agustín
Church
[ HERITAGE ]
Photo: César Mera
Address: Luis Urdaneta street and 6 de Marzo
avenue. Parish: Roca.
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Town Center / San Agustín Church
History: The current building
of the church was inaugurated in 1926.
The layout sketched by the then governor
Ramon Garcia de Leon y Pizarro in 1772,
placed the church between Prison street,
currently 10 de Agosto street, a street
without a name, currently Sucre street,
Tower street, now Chimborazo street, and
Charity street, now called Chile street.
Next to the temple, a convent was built.
The building was located next to the Municipal Library.
After being burnt for the second time,
it was moved to the chapel known as “La
Soledad”, as architect Melvin Hoyos published it in the book “Religious Architecture of Guayaquil between the 17th and
19th centuries”.
After the fire, the church was rebuilt in
concrete at its current location. The work
was completed on July 4,1926, same date
of its inauguration.
From the 1600’s there were many urban
and colloquial anecdotes like the one certified by the king’s scribe, Juan Martinez
de Miranda, who officially made public
that Captain Nicolas Serrano slapped his
face a 100 times next to the church, in
public, for errors committed.
Attractions: The spatial
rhythm of the roof’s semicircular arches
represents a visual experience of great
aesthetic value and the semicircular altar
gives a welcome embrace. The visitor can
appreciate the old polychromatic tiles
that cover the floor with Mudejar style
lines of Arabic architecture. The altar
located to the left, is a baroque piece
that has figures carved in wood, and also
high-relief images in marble. The Santa
Rita Altar, also of baroque style, has images carved in wood with a finish that
resembles marble and in the lower part
has the Santa Rita Coat of Arms. The San
Nicolas de Tolentino Altar has the monogram Jesus, Man of the Light.
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Photo: César Mera
Victoria
Square
Address: Quito avenue and 10 de Agosto street.
Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: This square was named after the famous Battle of Guayaquil, held in
the 19th century, on September 24, 1860,
where the troops of former Ecuadorian Presidents Gabriel Garcia Moreno and Juan Jose
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Victoria Square
Flores defeated the troops of General Guillermo
Franco, who with the backing of Ramon Castilla, President of Peru, had proclaimed himself
as Supreme Head of Guayaquil. That is why
this neighborhood began to be called Victoria,
meaning victory.
Its construction dates from 1887 according
to city plans made by German geologist and geographer, Teodoro Wolf. Towards the end of the
19th century, this park had a bullring. Initially,
the park was named Calderon Park, in honor of
the national hero Abdon Calderon; then, later
it was named Tarqui Square. In 1968, when the
monument to former President Gabriel Garcia
Monument to
Gabriel García
Moreno
History: This monument pays tribute
to former Ecuadorian President Gabriel Garcia Moreno, who fought to defend the city
in the famous Battle of Guayaquil, held in
the 19th century, on September 24, 1860.
The troops of former Ecuadorian presidents,
Gabriel Garcia Moreno and Juan Jose Flores
defeated those of General Guillermo Franco,
who with the backing of Ramon Castilla,
President of Peru, had proclaimed himself
as Supreme Head of Guayaquil.
Ecuadorian sculptor, Daniel Palacio, born
in the city of Loja, is the designer of the
monument that was placed in the Victoria
Square in 1968.
Attractions: This Square has a
monument in honor of former Ecuadorian President Gabriel Garcia Moreno, a classic Mudejar
style roundabout, and an illuminated water
fountain that is surrounded by trees, tropical
plants and gardens.
Moreno was installed, it began to be called
Victoria, due to the victory of the Battle of
Guayaquil.
For many years, this square remained abandoned, until 1998, when the urban regeneration program came to its rescue and gave back
to it the charm it deserved.
Attractions: The monument is five meters high. The bronze statue is located in
the middle of a hemicycle formed by four
columns united at the top by a lintel. In the
middle of the hemicycle stands a wall which
in its upper part has the shield of Ecuador. In
front of it, is a pedestal with the
saying, “Dios no muere” (God
doesn’t die). On this pedestal stands a statue of Garcia
Moreno with folded arms, symbolizing pride and meditation. The columns,
wall, and pedestal
were made of concrete coated in
grey marble. In the
back of the monument there are several messages from the
former president that
summarize his thinking and concepts about
power, duty, and love
for his country.
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Photo: César Mera
Victoria Church
Our Lady of Carmen
[ Heritage ]
Address: Quito avenue and 10 de Agosto street. Parish: Nueve de Octubre.
History: Italian architect Paolo Russo
built the church back in the 19th century in the
year of 1835, when it was just a chapel made of
cane and straw. It was officially recognized in
1887 as part of the city plans. It was located
on Quito Avenue between Aduana street, currently Clemente Ballen street and Municipality
street, currently 10 de Agosto Avenue. On July
1, 1888, Nicanor Corral y Bandera, a doctor
from Cuenca, requested from the Municipality
a space to build a chapel. The wooden temple
with towers was completed and inaugurated
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Victoria Church Our Lady of Carmen
three years later, in 1891.
Due to the passing of time and deterioration,
the church experienced several reconstructions. In 1935 the construction of the new
concrete temple began. It was completed six
years later, in 1941, when a blessing was made
of the façade and the two towers. A year later,
on May 13, 1942, a 7.7 earthquake shook the
city and damaged its structure. After that reconstruction, the church has remained in place
for the devoted people of Guayaquil. It is one
of their favorite churches.
• The Altar of the Victoria Church.
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Rodolfo Baquerizo Moreno
Square
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Tungurahua street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
History: The Square bears the name of
the owner of the old American Park, Rodolfo
Baquerizo Moreno, which was then the resort
“Los Baños del Salado”, a big attraction of the
city during the middle of the 19th century. The
Square was remodeled by the urban regeneration project carried out by the municipality and
was inaugurated on April 22, 2004.
Attractions: The Square is a large
agora, public gathering place, surrounded by
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Rodolfo Baquerzo Moreno Square /
broadleaved trees and colorful gardens. It is
distinguished by its imposing white obelisk located at the entrance of the main building, surrounded by an artificial lake. The convention
center has a capacity for 600 people. To one
side is located the monument to former Mayor
of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram, made by Ecuadorian sculptor Jorge Sweet. It is accompanied
by the Sculpture to Women by Yela Loffredo de
Klein, sculptor from Guayaquil. Also, a replica
of the statue of Juan Pueblo, iconic character
Monument to
Asaad Bucaram
Address: Nueve de Octubre Boulevard and
Tungurahua street. Parish: Rocafuerte.
of Guayaquil, similar to the one located at
the Malecon Simon Bolivar, is located inside
the square.
At the bottom floor there is an acoustic
shell for outside musical and theatrical performances with a capacity for 120 people.
In the central area, a collection center was
established to recycle the waste generated
by the place, which is used for educational
purposes. Next to it, there is a conference
room that holds up to 30 persons where
videos of the recycling process of organic
garbage are projected. This goal is to raise
awareness about the importance of taking
care of the environment.
History: The monument pays tribute
to the politician, sports leader and former Mayor of Guayaquil, Assad Bucaram
Elmhalin. Born in Ambato, on December
24, 1916 and died on November 5, 1981.
Bucaram was leader of the political party
“Concentracion de Fuerzas Populares” (CFP)
and became an influence in national politics
where he was legislator for four periods and
president of the National Chamber of Representatives. He also served as mayor of the
city between 1968 and 1970.
Attractions: The statue represents
Bucaram giving a speech. It is located in a
circular area surrounded by gardens, settled
on a base of concrete with different bas-relief allegories. Behind are both the flags of
Guayaquil and Ecuador.
His name is engraved on the front, along
with a representation of the people who
followed him. On the back, the engraving
alludes to Bucaram’s participation in congress. The right side refers to his work as a
sports leader, a promoter of basketball and
the Athletic Club, of which he was one of
the founders, and on the left side, his image
alongside the working people.
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Pier of the
Salado Estuary
Address: 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Tungurahua street. Parish: Urdaneta.
History: Bears the name for being
built on the banks of the Salado Estuary, which
has an area of 400 meters. It was built in 2009,
as part of the urban regeneration project of
the city. This is an emblematic work of the
Municipality of Guayaquil that recovered and
rehabilitated this arm of the sea, which in the
past was used frequented by citizens as a beach
but today as a park. It is a pride of Guayaquil
and a great tourist attraction.
Attractions: The area is distributed in two floors, both with views of the
estuary and the city. The top floor has been
designed as a deck resembling a sailing boat
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Pier of the Salado Estuary /
that has a 55 meter long suspension bridge.
The pier also has gardens, fountains, rest areas,
outdoor squares for live performances and the
so-called Seafood Square, to enjoy the exquisite seafood cuisine from the coast.
This park has several places designated as
squares like La Plaza de Los Escritores (Writers
Square), that pays tribute to five writers from
Guayaquil; Plaza de la Salud (Health Square),
which recognizes the efforts of the municipality for its environmental work; Plaza de
Los Mariscos (Seafood Square), where you can
enjoy Ecuadorian seafood and monuments like
the one in honor of Journalist Ismael Perez Pazmino, founder of El Universo Newspaper. Also,
the stained-glass window that represents
the Huancavilcas, Guayas and Quil, which
according to some historians, gave origin
to the name of the city. In addition there
are the sculpture “Pez en el agua” (Fish
in the water), and the commemorative
plaque “Guayaquil Portico de Oro”(Guayaquil, Golden Port”) in honor of the traditional song written by Pablo Anibal Vela,
with music by Carlos Rubira Infante.
From this park, you can also see the
monumental water dancing fountain with
multicolored lights, located in the water
mirror of the Salado Estuary, between the
Ferroviaria Neighborhood and the 5 de
Junio Bridge. In addition, vessels can be
taken for short trips through the estuary.
Services: Parking area, exhibition
areas, crafts, restaurants, bars, night
clubs, fast-food restaurants, river rides
and sanitary facilities.
• In the estuary you can take a kayak or boat ride.
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Writers
Walkway
Address: Pier of the Salado Estuary between 9
de Octubre avenue and Aguirre street.
Parish: Urdaneta.
History: This is a cultural space that honors five writers from Guayaquil: Enrique Gil
Gilbert, Jose de La Cuadra, Demetrio Aguilera
Malta, Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, and Joaquin Gallegos Lara, who marked an era, as novelists, traditionalists, who narrated the epics
from the people of the Coast.
Attractions: Surrounded by a natural setting, there is the monument “Cinco como un
puño” (Five like a Fist), which pays tribute
to the five writers of the Group of Guayaquil
formed by Enrique Gil Gilbert, Jose de la Cuadra, Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja
Diezcanseco and Joaquin Gallegos Lara.
In addition to the monument, each writer
has a large crystal panel which relates their
biography, their works, and excerpts from some
of their novels, allowing the visitor to know the
kind of literary figures they were and to read
some of their famous quotes.
Bust to
Ismael Pérez Pazmiño
de Octubre avenue and Aguirre street, Health
Square. Parish: Urdaneta.
History: The bust pays tribute to Ecuadorian journalist Ismael Perez Pazmino,
founder of El Universo Newspaper, one of the
most important newspapers of the city. The
journalist, writer and Senator of the Republic, was born in Machala on June 30, 1876
and died in Los Angeles, California United
States on November 1, 1944.
Attractions: The bust is located over a
pond supported by a column, which has at
the foot of the monument a globe with the
name of the newspaper that this visionary
founded.
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Pier of the Salado Estuary / Paseo de los Escritores
Monument
Five as a fist
de Octubre avenue and Aguirre street.
Parish: Urdaneta.
History: The monument pays tribute
to five writers from Guayaquil, members
of the “Group of Guayaquil”, composed
by Enrique Gil Gilbert, Jose de La Cuadra,
Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Alfredo Pareja
Diezcanseco and Joaquin Gallegos Lara,
all deceased. They marked an era, as traditionalists that expressed a social realist literature, telling epic stories about
people from the coast. These became
milestones in the Ecuadorian narrative
prose of the 20th century.
The name of the monument refers to
a metaphor said by Enrique Gil Gilbert
during the funeral of his partner Joaquin
Gallegos Lara, in 1947, which then became the identity card of the “Group of
Guayaquil”: “Reality and nothing else but
reality. We were five as a fist.”
Attractions: The monument made
in bronze, has the shape of a fist over an
open book surrounded by the face of these
five writers from the “Group of Guayaquil”.
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TheBridge
Velero
Address: Bridge over the Salado Estuary, extension of Aguirre street and
Barcelona avenue. Parish: Urdaneta.
History: The history of El Velero Bridge
goes back to the year 1998, when it was built by
the construction company CPR Asociados Cia.
Ltda. The work marks a milestone in the urban
aesthetics of Guayaquil, standing out as “The
most beautiful bridge of the country”.
It was remodeled as part of the urban regeneration project, carried out by the Municipality
of Guayaquil and reopened on July 27, 2005.
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The Velero Bridge /
The bridge, built in stages, was carried out first
by the Assembling Technique and Mechanical
Construction Company (C.T.M.C.M. Cia. Ltda.),
based on a contract signed on April 27, 2005
along with the Municipal Foundation, “Guayaquil Siglo XXI.”
Marriott S.A. Company carried out the second stage, which was in charge of the illumination of the bridge.
Monumental Fountain
Dancing
Waters
Address: Salado Estuary, between the Ferroviaria Park and the 5 de Junio bridge.
Parish: Urdaneta.
History: The Dancing Water Fountain
was built as a complement to the Pier of
the Salado Estuary by the Municipality
of Guayaquil and was inaugurated on
October 30, 2011. It had an approximate
cost of $3.8 million and was built by the
Spanish company Ghesa, Engineering
and Technology.
On both sides of the bridge, two wooden
walkways were built so pedestrians can move
safely from one place to another.
Attractions: Its architectural design of modern style simulates the shape of a
sailboat and the natural surroundings of the
Salado Estuary. At night, it offers great splendor, when its sails of canvas and fiber optic
cable system illuminate in blue.
Attractions: One of its main attractions is a geyser. It sprays jets of water
to a height of 40 meters. Also, a fountain
with 64 pumps that can raise streams of
water to form a 20 meters high screen on
which, like a movie screen, videos, and
other images can be projected. At night,
it is a display of color full of music and
images. The jets of water can been seen
with blue, violet, red, yellow and many
other colors, dancing to the rhythm of
the music, from semi-classic pieces to
the traditional ones from Guayaquil like
“Guayaquil de mis amores” and “Guayaquileño madera de guerrero” synchronized with images of the city projected
on a mirror of 30 meters.
Shows: Tuesday to Thursday: at
12h00 without illumination, from 19h00
to 21h00 with illumination.
Fridays to Sundays: from 12h00 to
19h00 just the fountain, at 19h00 full
performance.
Holidays: from 12h00 to 19h00 just
the fountain, at 19h00 full performance.
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Lineal Park
Address: Carlos Julio Arosemena avenue until the 5 de Junio bridge and the Catholic University.
Parish Tarqui.
History: The Carlos Armando Romero
Rodas Lineal Park bears that name in honor of
the popular broadcaster. The Municipality of
Guayaquil carried out the work and its construction started in January 2004 and was
completed 10 months later when it was inaugurated on October 21. It cost $1.8 million
to build. Its length is almost a kilometer,
and it covers an area of 21,720.45 square
meters where one can appreciate the variety
of flora and fauna. Many birds, iguanas and
other animals live in the estuary and in its
mangroves.
Attractions: The mangroves are a
habitat for nine migratory species and the flora
from the coastal areas feature trees, gardens
and plants from the region.
The trail includes gardens, four ponds, four
artificial lagoons, walkways, docks, and a small
square that has in its center a central agora with
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Lineal Park /
three venues for artistic performances. There
are monuments to patriots like Victor Emilio
Estrada Carmona, constitutional president of
Ecuador between 1855 and 1911, famous characters like Don Quixote, the Equilibrist, the
Venus of Valdivia, and the sculpture “Amigas
de mi jardin” (Girl friends in my garden). The
canoeing school is also located in the park.
At night, the estuary looks like a mirror that
reflects the lights of the Catholic University’s
Linear Park.
Services: The Park has six access points.
Its paving is cobbled and has little islands with
ornamental plants and rest areas. It also has
four small trails, which allow the visitors to
walk through the park and observe its natural
surroundings.
Visiting Hours: Monday to Sunday from
08h00 to 18h00.
History: Its name pays tribute to radio
broadcaster Carlos Armando Romero Rodas,
known as CARR, by the initials of his name. He
was the owner of the popular “Radio Cristal”,
one of the most important radio stations of
the city. Born in Guayaquil on April 3, 1929,
and died on July 13, 2004. He promoted
many Ecuadorian musicians.
Attractions: The square has a central
agora with three venues intended for children’s artistic and cultural performances.
Visiting hours: Monday to Sunday from
08:00 to 18:00
History: The monument pays tribute to the
former Ecuadorian President Emilio Antonio
Estrada Carmona, born in Quito on May 28,
1855 and died on December 21, 1911, while
serving in office. His administration started
on September 1, 1911 until his death from
heart failure.
The bust is the work of sculptor Paul Amadeus
Palacio and was inaugurated on December 21,
2005.
Attractions: The 2.8 meters high sculpture
shows Estrada’s full body, dressed elegantly with
his presidential sash over his chest, a book in his
right hand and a cane in his left hand.
Don Quijote and
Sancho Panza
Friends in my
garden Sculpture
Sculpture
History: The sculpture pays tribute to the
classic literary character, “Don Quixote de la
Mancha”, created by Spanish writer Miguel
de Cervantes y Saavedra. The sculpture was
crafted by a sculptor from Guayaquil, Manuel
Velastegui, and was inaugurated on July 20,
2005.
Attractions: The work is 3
meters high and is 1.2 meters
wide. It is made of a blend of
steel and copper and has an
approximate weight of 400
pounds. In the sculpture Don
Quixote is represented with
his friend Sancho Panza and
a windmill.
History: Artist Jorge Pazzo Vargas crafted
the sculpture in March 2007. The work represents humanity coming out from a trunk.
Attractions:
It is made from the
wood of a 200-yearold eucalyptus tree
from Quito. The
work, which is a
carving of several
women, is 4.5 meters high and 2.5
meters wide. It is
located within a
circle surrounded by
gardens.
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Monument to
Carlos Armando
Romero Rodas Square Emilio Estrada Carmona
Music
Square
Photo: Carlos Julio Gonzalez
Address: Second stage of the Pier of the Salado
Estuary, from El Velero Bridge to the 17th street
Bridge. It can be accessed by Clemente Ballen and
Aguirre streets (Downtown) and from Victor Hugo
Briones street (South-West.) Parish: Urdaneta.
Attractions: The square has
the shape of a guitar and the visitor can
find water fountains, pergolas, food courts,
playgrounds and an atrium that serves as a
stage for public performances. Its location
is attractive for its natural surroundings. In
front it has a branch of the Salado Estuary,
which gives the area some uniqueness in
terms of flora and fauna and for its brackish
waters that help the growth of mangroves.
There is not a great variety of ornamental plants within the Music Square, but the
species living in the area enhance and give
color to the place turning it into a pleasing
open-air location.
It also provides a playground area designed with musical related items, among
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Music Square
them, the triangles and the metal sound
pipes.
It was built within the project of urban
regeneration during the administration of
Mayor Jaime Nebot and serves as a venue for
artistic and cultural performances. It covers
an area of 1300 meters along the Salado
Estuary and between two existing bridges.
Services: Fast food restaurants and beverage stations. The parking lots of the Salado
Estuary Pier can be used by the visitors of
the Music Square. There are 66 parking spots
open 24-hour a day throughout the year.
Visiting Hours: Every day from 7:00am
to 12:00am
Zig Zag Bridge
Address: Kennedy avenue, near the Urdesa Bridge. Parish: Tarqui.
History: The Zigzag Bridge was opened
on July 1, 2012, by Guayaquil’s Mayor Jaime
Nebot, as part of the of urban regeneration
program of the city.
It is a 220 meters long metal pedestrian
bridge built by the Consortium Torres Veloz, at
a cost of $2.6 million. It links the University
of Guayaquil Pier with the Linear Park in front
of the Catholic University.
This Bridge built with a particular zigzag
design, is a structure of six meters wide. It
has 20 meters of access ramps, a metal roof
with curvilinear forms, and it can support up to
eight tons of weight, even though it was built
for pedestrians. Its construction began on July
22, 2011 and took almost a year.
Attractions: Its main attraction is
its natural surroundings that border the Salado Estuary and mangroves, its modern zigzag
design that draws a path between two parallel
lines adapted to the environment, its curvilinear roofs, and its cobblestone and stamped
concrete walkways. Visitors can enjoy planters,
observation areas and eight pergolas located
throughout the bridge.
Photo: Archivo Dirección de Prensa Municipio de Guayaquil
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A brief history of Guayaquil
D
uring the 1540’s Diego de Urbina
organized the first settlement at
the foot of Cerrito Verde (Green Hill)
which later became known as Santa
Ana Hill. This settlement developed into a
beautiful city along the banks of the Guayas
River in the ancient Huancavilca Territory.
Thanks to the skillful hands of carpenters, the
wooden architecture of the city grew. Out of
precious, durable woods they built balconies
and portals that were unique to America.
Its location between the hills of Santa Ana
and Carmen offered a commanding view of
the river where sailboats carried out their
port activities. This early commercial activity
became the engine of the regional economy
during both colonial and republican times.
Its sheltered port, located in one of the most
peaceful estuaries of the west coast of the
South Pacific, turned into the largest shipyard
of the South Sea that Spain had.
Guayaquil was a cradle of liberty, which
was achieved during the Glorious Dawn of
October 9, 1820, when for the first time, in
the existing Ecuadorian territory, the explicit
and formal Declaration of Independence took
place. The armies that liberated Quito on May
24, 1822 departed from Guayaquil. From the
same city, a large contingent sealed the liberty
of South America during the battles of Junin
and Ayacucho.
Its geographical location had such
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General Information
transcendental geopolitical importance that
the only interview held between liberators
Bolivar and San Martin, took place in the city
on July 26, 1822.
During republican times, the dynamic river
port connected the region and the country
with international trade, creating thousands
of job opportunities and progress for all
Ecuadorians. From the port, cocoa (the golden
bean) and banana were exported to the ports of
Europe and North America. Also, technological
advances arrived to the country through the
port modernizing the life of the inhabitants.
Towards 1960, Guayaquil became a seaport
that promoted the economic, social, and
cultural development of the city. This attracted
the interest of large shipping companies that
invigorated their wealthy trade.
Its large market of diverse opportunities
and the beauty of its urban landscape framed
by the fresh breezes of the river, offered an
ideal atmosphere for art, cultural displays,
and a diverse gastronomy. These factors had
characterized the city as a tourist destination
of growing importance.
This city of the large river and the estuary
“where the sun is a domiciled sun, which dawns
laughing and sleeps playing in the Salado
Estuary” as chanted by poet Pablo Hannibal
Vela, open its arms to locals and foreigners, to
share the effort of building a society of peace
and a better world.
General information
Official name: Santiago de Guayaquil
Patron Saint Festivities of Santiago de Guayaquil: July 25
Independence: October 9, 1820
Extension: 345 square kilometers
Geographic Location: The geography of Guayaquil
is characterized by its coastal location along the
northwestern part of South America near the Equator. It has few elevations since it is far away from the
Andes Mountains. Its higher elevations are made
up of small hills that cross the city and later join
the mountain range called “Chongon-Colonche”,
which is located to the west. There is a network
of rivers formed by the Guayas to the east and the
Salado Estuary to the west giving it easy access to
the Pacific Ocean through the Gulf of Guayaquil.
Its port advantage has made Guayaquil the largest
city in Ecuador.
Elevation: 4 m (13.2 ft.)
Weather: Guayaquil can be visited any time of the
year, since it does not have extreme temperatures.
It has two seasons: winter (from January to May)
and summer (from June to December). During winter season, the city is hot during the day and a little
cooler at night and during the summer months its
cooler during the day and nighttime.
Population: It is the largest city of the country with
a population of approximately 2,500,000 inhabitants. The 2010 census showed that Guayaquil had
2,350, 915 inhabitants at that time.
Regional Name: Guayaquilenos
Time zone: GMT -5.
Language: Spanish is the official language; however, in some tourist areas, like large hotels and
classy restaurants, other languages are spoken.
English is the most common non-native language.
Currency: American Dollar
Postal code: EC0901
Type of government: Autonomous. The government is elected by democratic vote that elects a
Mayor and Cantonal Council.
Political-Administrative distribution: The Guayaquil canton has 16 urban parishes and 5 rural.
Attire: During the rainy season, from January to
May, the city can be quite warm and very sunny, an
ideal time to visit the beaches. During the day it is
recommended to dress for warm weather and wear
comfortable shoes. For those sunny days tourists
should wear something to protect their heads, use
sunblock, and even carry an umbrella. For the dry,
cooler season, from June to December, dress for
warm weather; however, at nighttime some may
need to wear a light sweater.
Voltage: 110 volts.
Local festivities:
January 1: New Year
February or March: Carnival
March or April: Easter
May 1: Labor Day
May 24: Battle of Pichincha
July 24: Birthday of Simon Bolivar.
July 25: Foundation of Guayaquil.
October 9: Independence of Guayaquil.
November 2: Day of the Death
December 25: Christmas
December 31: New Year’s Eve
Important telephone numbers
Emergency 911
National Police 101
Fire Department 102
Red Cross103
Ministry of Health
171
Blood Bank 042- 560675
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo Airport 04-2-169000
Bus Terminal of Guayaquil:04-2-130166
Civil Defense 04-2-469009
04-2-594800
Municipality of Guayaquil: Judicial Police: 04-2-870439
Customs Police: 04-2-489333
Friend (Amigo) Telephone:04-2-385808
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Country Codes, Phone Codes, Dialing Codes and telephone codes of the
provinces and cities of Ecuador
Country code: 593
Long distance dial:
00
ProvincEs:
Azuay: 07
Bolívar: 06
Cañar: 07
Carchi: 06
Chimborazo: 03
Cotopaxi: 03
Esmeraldas: 06
El Oro: 07
Galápagos: 05
Guayas: 04
Imbabura: 06
Loja: 07
Los Ríos: 05
Manabí: 05
Morona Santiago: 07
Orellana: 06
Pastaza: 06
Pichincha: 02
Santa Elena: 04
Santo Domingo
de los Tsáchilas: 07
Sucumbíos: 06
Napo: 06
Tungurahua: 03
Zamora Chinchipe: 03
CiTIes
Ambato: 03
Atacames: 06
Azoguez: 07
Baños: 03
Cuenca: 07
El Coca: 06
Esmeraldas: 06
Guayaquil: 04
Ibarra: 06
Ingapirca: 07
Isla Isabela: 05
Isla San Cristóbal: 05
Isla Santa Cruz: 05
Lago Agrio: 06
Loja: 07
Macas: 07
Machala: 07
Manta: 05
Montañita: 04
Napo: 06
Otavalo: 06
Quito: 02
Playas: 04
Portoviejo: 05
Puyo: 03
Quevedo: 05
Riobamba: 03
Salinas: 06
Santa Elena:
04
Santo Domingo: 02
Tababela: 02
Tena: 06
Pichincha: 02
Vilcabamba: 07
Zamora: 07
Tourist Services
Accommodations: There are a variety of options for
all tastes and budgets: 1 to 5 star hotels and hostels.
(More information in the hotel list on page 126)
Air transportation: Jose Joaquin de Olmedo
International Airport, listed as one of the best in
the world in its category. There are domestic flights
to main tourist destinations of Ecuador. Prices can
be found in the airlines’ websites.
Interprovincial Buses: Departing from the modern
bus terminal of Guayaquil, all destinations within
the country are covered. Prices and travel comfort
may vary according to the routes and transportation
companies.
Airport taxes: Jose Joaquín de Olmedo Airport:
$31.01 (international flights); $ 6.59 (domestic
flights)
Bus Terminal taxes: $0.20
Note: Taxes are subject to change.
Taxi Service: To guarantee the safety and comfort
of the traveler, it is recommended the use of taxis
while going to and from hotels, airports or shopping
malls. Private taxi companies have call centers that
arrange to pick up tourists throughout the city.
Warning: do not hail a taxi on the street. Use the
call center.
Car rental: Rental companies operate in the city
and have agencies inside the airport terminal.
Use of cars: Foreigners can use their driver’s license
for up to six months from the day they enter the
country.
Restaurants: The most exquisite gastronomy of
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Ecuador and the world can be tasted in the city.
There are options for all tastes and budgets
Safety: When visiting Guayaquil, tourists should
take the same precautions that they would anywhere
else. Do not leave your belongings unattended
and avoid deserted places at night. The National
Police and the Metropolitan Police guard the city’s
downtown. In case of emergency you can dial 911
and you will be helped immediately.
Visas and customs: A visa is not required for most
foreigners to enter the country for a stay of 90
days or less. However, citizens of Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal,
Nigeria, Pakistan and Somalia are required a visa
to enter the country for any length of time.
Currency: The US dollar is used. The bills and some
of the coins are the same as the ones used in the
United States; however, some coins are issued in
the country. Euros and other currencies must be
exchanged at the current exchange rate.
Currency exchange: Currency can be exchanged
at authorized exchange offices, hotels and banks.
It is not recommended to exchange currency in
the streets.
ATMs
There are ATMs throughout the city. They are easy
to find, and they work with all types of debit and
credit cards.
Credit cards: the most accepted are Visa,
MasterCard, American Express and Diners Club.
If your card is lost or stolen:
Call the following numbers to
block it:
Diners Club: +593 (02) 2984444.
American Express: 1700 242424.
Visa: +1 (303) 967-1096
Mastercard: +1 (636) 722-7111.
Note: the phone numbers are
subject to change.
Traveller’s Checks: can be used
in banking institutions; however,
they are not accepted in tourist
areas.
Airlines:
Aerogal: 2687566
Aircanada: 2453009
Airfrance/klm: 2169050/68
American Airlines: 2598800
Avianca: 2399411
Copa: 2303211
El al: 2889789
Emetebe: 2309290
Endecots: 2289589
Hanh air: 2453009
Heli Air Monaco Iberia: 2329558
Icelandair Japan Airlines:
2889789
Lac Lan: 2598500
Lufthansa: 2598060
Qantas Airways: 2889789
Saéreo Sba: 2169108/09
Star Perú: (09)81009411
Tame: 2560728/78
Embassies and
Consulates in Ecuador
ALBANIA
* Consular Section (Quito)
Address: N44-54 Isla Santiago
and Rio Coca
Phone mumber: (02) 2447142 (02) 2445272
Fax: (02) 2447090
Email: [email protected]
Opening hours: Mondays to
Fridays: 08h30 – 16h00
ARGENTINA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 21-147 Amazonas
avenue No. and Roca, 8th floor,
Offices 812 through 820
Phone numbers: (02) 2527624
- (02) 2564149 - (02) 2564207
- (02) 2562292 - (02) 2564149 (02) 2564207 - (02) 2563662.
Fax: (02) 2568177
PO Box: 17 21 0002 / 17- 1-2937
Website: www.cancillleria.gov.ar
Opening Hours: 09:00 to 17:00
from Mondays to Fridays
Customer service: 9:00 to 13:00
*General Consulate (Guayaquil)
Address: 10 Las Monjas avenue
and Carlos Julio Arosemena,
“Hamburgo” Building, ground
floor
Phone numbers: (04) 220869 (04) 220777
Fax: (04) 2208769
(02) 2263502
Fax: (02) 2462562
Honorary General Consul in
Quito
Patricio Izurieta Mora Bowen
AUSTRALIA
*Honorary Consulate in Guayaquil
Address: 520 Rocafuerte and
Tomás Martínez, Fundacion
Leonidas Ortega Building, First
floor.
Phone number: (04) 6017529
Fax: (04) 25014111
Email:ausconsulate@unidas.
com.ec
Opening hours: from 9:00 to
13:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00
BELGIUM
*Consular Section in Quito
Address: N41-163 Los Cabildos
street, Futura Building, 4th floor
–Quito Tenis Residential Development, behind the Embassy
of Japan.
Phone numbers: (02) 2469017 /
099730860
Fax: (02) 2449125
PO Box: 17-07-9431
Address: Las Americas Avenue,
TC Television Building. San
Joaquin Orravia. 3rd floor
Phone number: (04) 22 83374
Fax: (04) 2398857
Email: consuladobelgica@
tctelevisión.com
AUSTRIA
*Consular Section (Quito)
Address: E9-53 Gaspar de Villaroel avenue and Shyris, third
floor
Phone numbers: (02) 2469700 099554927
Fax: (02) 2443276 - (02)
2441143
Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00
*Honorary Consulate General in
Guayaquil
Address: 718 Jorge Pérez Concha
street
Opening hours: Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 10:00 to 12:00.
BANGLADESH
*Honorary Consulate in Quito
Address: N35-89 Amazonas
avenues and Corea, Amazonas
Building 4000, 5th floor.
Phone numbers: (02) 2263500 -
BELARUS
Address: E7-22 Alpallana and
Whymper; GF, Torres Almagro
No. 9950
Honorary Consul of Belarus
Jaime Ortiz Barona
BOLIVIA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 2432 Eloy Alfaro avenue and Fernando Ayarza
Phone number: (02) 2244830 (02) 2244831
Fax: (02) 2244833
PO Box: 17 21 0003
Website: www.embajadabolivia.ec
Opening hours: Consular: from
09:00 to13:00
Mission: from 09:00 to 13:00
and from 14:00 to 17:30
Quito-Ecuador
Address: 100 Cedros and Victor
117
Emilio Estrada (Urdesa)
– (04) 2885791 - (04) 2885789
Cell phone: 099524340
Email: jguzmani2000@yahoo.
com
13:00 and from 15:30 to 17:00
BRASIL
*Embassy (Quito)
and Arizaga, Amazonas Building Square, 7th floor
Fax: (02) 2277003
PO Box: 17 01 231
Website: www.quito.itamaraty.
gov.br
13:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00,
Mondays to Fridays
Quito-Ecuador
Address: 312 San Jorge avenue
and east 3rd. street (Kennedy)
Phone number: (04) 2293046 (04) 2283825
Cell phone 09-01-10444
Email: alberto@eurogres.
com.ec
14:00
BULGARIA
Address: Juan Tanca Marengo
avenue and Joaquín Orrantia.
Executive Center Building, 7th
floor, office702
Business center: (04) 2291830
Fax: (04) 2296895
Opening hours: 09:30 a 12:45
horas
Honorary Consul in Guayaquil
Isabel Noboa Ponton
CANADA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 37-29 Amazonas and
Union Nacional de Periodistas,
Eurocenter Building, 3rd floor
Phone numbers: (02) 2455499 (02) 2272166
Fax: (02) 2277672
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PO Box: 17-11-6512
Email: quito@international.
gc.ca
Website: www.ecuador.gc.ca
Thursdays from 07:30 to16:00;
Fridays from 07:30 to 13:00.
Address: 234 Francisco de
Orellana avenue, Blue Towers
Building, 6th floor
Ext. 101
Basil Haylock
CHILE
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 3617 Juan Pablo Sanz
and Amazonas, Xerox Building,
4th floor
- (02) 2452752 - (02) 2459487
Fax: (02) 2444470
PO Box: 17-17-206
Email: echile.ecuador@minrel.
gov.cl / pnaranjo@minrel.
gov.cl
Fridays from 08h30 to 17h30.
*Consulate in Guayaquil
Address: 100 9 de Octubre avenue and Malecon, La Previsora
Building, 23rd floor, office 2306
Phone numbers: (04) 2562995 (04) 2564919
Fax: (04) 2565-151
PO Box: 09-01-828
Email: congechile.guayaquil@
espoltel.net
Opening hours: from 08: 00 to
13:00.
CHINA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 349 Atahualpa avenue
and Amazonas avenue
- (02) 244462 (Protocol) (02)
2433407 –Consular Office
Email: susanaembajadachina@
gmail.com
Fax: 24 44 364/62
Fridays: from 09:00 to 12:00
and 15:00 to 17:00.
Consular Office: Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays from
9:00 to 11:30
*Consulate General in Guayaquil
Address: Santa Cecilia Citadel,
840 Central avenue between
streets 7th and 8th
Phone numbers: (04) 2850338 (04) 2850611
Fax: (04) 2850125
General Consul in Guayaquil
Wang Weihua
COLOMBIA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: N24-528 12 de Octubre avenue and Luis Cordero,
World Trade Center, B Tower,
14th floor
Fax: (02) 2221969
Email: equito@cancilleria.
gov.co
Fridays from 08:30 to 13:00 and
14:00 to 18:00.
Address: Francisco de Orellana
avenue, block 111. WTC, B
Tower, 11th floor, office 1105
- (04) 2630-674 - (04) 2630675
Fax: (04) 2630676
Opening Hours: Mondays to
Fridays from 09:00 to 13:30 and
14:30 to 18:00
COSTA RICA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 111 Javier Arauz
and German Aleman (behind
Megamaxi and 6 de Diciembre
Avenue)
Phone number: (02) 2256016 (02) 2252330
Fax: (02) 2254-087
PO Box: 17 -03 -301
/ [email protected] /
[email protected]
*Consular Section in Guayaquil
Address: 2009 9 de Octubre and
Los Rios, El Marques Building,
11th floor
Fax: (04) 2375224
Cell phone: 09-9632856
Consul in Guayaquil
Rafael Saenz
CUBA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 365 Mercurio between
La Razon and El Vengador
Phone numbers: (02) 22 60981
- (02) 2456936 - (02) 2259183
Fax: (02) 2430594
Email: embajada@embacuba.
ec / [email protected]
Website: www.embacuba.
cubaminrex.cu
CYPRUS
Address: 481 Humboldt and
Novoa Caamaño, Liguria Building, 6th floor
Phone numbers: (02) 3237758 (02) 3237545
Fax: (02) 2227344
Email: [email protected].
net
Consul Ad-Honorem
Maria Cardenas Rivadeneira
CZEC REPUBLIC
Address: 520 Third avenue and
Fourth street, Los Ceibos
Fax: (04) 2353190
PO Box: 09-01-5094
Website: www.mzv.cz/bogota
12:00
(Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays)
DENMARK
*Consulate General in Quito
Address: Business Center Plaza
del Rancho, Block 1, 2nd floor,
Office. 206, Eugenio Espejo
avenue, Via Tanda –Miravalle
sector
Phone number: (02) 3957565 –
(02) 3957583
PO Box: 17-17-549
/ [email protected]
Address: 604 General Cordova
and Mendiburo
Phone number: (04) 2308-020
/ 099742-908
Consul Guayaquil
Flemming Bo Falkentoft
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E 12-80 German
Aleman street between Juan
Ramirez and Arroyo del Río,
behind Megamaxi (Batan Alto)
Phone numbers: (02) 2434232 (02) 2244478 - (02) 2269163
Fax: (02) 2434275
Websites: www.embajadadominicanaecuador.com
15:30. Customer service until
14:30
EGYPT
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E 4–56 Tarqui avenue
and 6 de Diciembre avenue
(across El Arbolito park)
Phone numbers: (02) 2509501 (02) 2225240 - (02) 2520895
Fax: (02) 2563521
PO Box: 17-7-9355
Email: embassy.quito@mfa.
gov.eg / nidiacordovamolina@
hotmail.com
Consular: Mondays to Fridays
from 10:00 to 13:00.
EL SALVADOR
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 123 Japon street and
Amazonas avenue, Ferlo- SANT
Building, 2nd floor
Fax: (02) 2254431
Website: www.elsalvador.
com.ec
Address: 511 Clemente Ballen
and Boyaca
– (04) 2325150
Fax: (04) 2516068
horas
Dinorah De Luzi
ESTONIA
Address: N26-97 12 de Octubre
avenue and Abraham Lincoln,
Tower 1492 Building, 8th floor
Fax: (02) 298 6664
Cell phone: 09 9 443137
P.O Box: 17-03-719
Email: [email protected] /
[email protected]
18:00
EUROPEAN UNION
*Delegation
Address: E11-160 Orellana
avenue and Whimper, Schuman
Building
Phone numbers: (02) 2523 912
– (02) 2523161 – (02) 2528040
Fax: (02) 2527 511
PO Box: 17-7-9695
Email: delegation-ecuador@
eeas.europa.eu
Websites: www.eeas.europa.eu/
delegations/ecuador
Thursdays from 08:00 to 13:00
and from 14:30 to 17:30;
Fridays: 08:00 to 13:30.
FINLAND
Address: 212 Luis Urdaneta and
General Cordova
Fax: (04) 2561295
PO Box: 09-01-4848
and 16:00 to 18:00
Humberto Mata Salvador
FRANCE
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 107 Leonidas Plaza
and Patria
119
Fax: (02) 2943809
PO Box: 1913 y 536
Email: cancilleria.quito-amba@
diplomatie.gouv.fr
Website: www.ambafran-ce-ec.
org
y 14:00 a 16:30, Mondays to
Thurdays
Consulate: 08:00 to 13:30 on
Fridays
Address: 909 Jose Mascote and
Hurtado
Fax: (04) 2328442
Opening hours: 10:00 a 13:00.
Consul in Guayaquil
Thierry Souët
GEORGIA
Address: N27-157 Muros and
Gonzalez Suarez
Email: mkakabadse@makana.
com.ec
Honorary Consul in Quito
Manuel Eloy Esteban Kakabadse
Navarro (OJO, TRES NOMBRES)
GERMANY
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E 10-44 Naciones
Unidas avenue and Republica
de El Salvador, Citiplaza Building, Floors 12-14.
Fax: (02) 2970815 / (02)
2970816
PO Box: 17-17-536
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.quito.diplo.de
Thursdays: 7:30 to 12:30 and
13:00 to 16:30; Fridays: 07:30
to 13:15.
* Consular Section (Guayaquil)
Address: 10 Las Monjas avenue,
Berlin Building, 2nd floor
Phone number: (04) 2206868 (04) 2206867
Fax: (04) 2206869
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GREAT BRITAIN
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: Naciones Unidas and
Republica de El Salvador, Citiplaza Building, 14th floor
Phone numbers: (02) 2970800 (02) 2970801
Fax: (02) 2970809S
Emergency cell phone:
092029944
Po Box: 17-17-830
Email: britishembassy.quito@
fco.gov.uk / maria.rios@fco.
gov.uk
Website: www.britembquito.
org.ec / www.ukinecuador.fco.
gov.uk
12:30 and from 13:30 to 16:30,
Mondays to Thursday, and from
8:00 to 13:00 on Fridays
Address: 623 General Cordova
and Padre Solano
Phone numbers: (04) 25 60 400
/ (04) 2563850. Extension 318
Fax: (04) 25 62 641
rocio.torres-honcon@fconet.
fco.gov.uk
Colin Robert Armstrong, CMG
GREECE
Guayaquil
Address: Las Americas avenue
and Cosmerenela, El Bucanero
Building, Office 6.
15:00
General Consul in Guayaquil
Stylianos Gkiokas
GUATEMALA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 733 Republica de El
Salvador and Portugal, Gabriela
Building, 3rd floor, Office 301.
- (02) 2437751 Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ecuador.minex.gt
Address: Colon 3 Business
Center, Office 109.
Phone numbers: (04) 2136156 (04) 2136157
Fax: (04) 2380583
12:00.
Rafael Florido White
HAITI
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E8-62 Francisco Robles
between Leonidas Plaza and 6
de Diciembre.
Phone number: (02) 2547565 (02) 223-4152
Fax: (02) 2224152
Address: Km 8.5, Via Daule,
inside the Conquistador Group,
1st floor
Email: consuladohaiti@
satelite.com.ec
Fridays, from10h00 to 13h00
HOLY SEE
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 692 Orellana and 6 de
Diciembre avenue
Phone numbers: (02) 2505200 (02) 2505201
Fax: (02) 2564810
PO Box: 17 07 8980
Fridays, from 08:30 to 13:00
and from 15: 00 to 17: 30; Saturdays: from 08:30 to 13:00
HONDURAS
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: N-277 Suecia street
and Shyris avenue, Suecia
Building, 5th floor
Phone numbers: (02) 2438820 (02) 2442476 - (02) 2254196
Fax: (02) 2442476
POBox: 17-03-4753
Guayaquil
Address: 414 Bolivia y Chile
Fax: (04) 2445972
18:30.
HUNGARY
*Consulate in Quito
Address: 2859 Whimper and
Orellana, Whimper Building
Phone numbers: (02) 2506-514
– (02) 2545546
Fax: (02) 2502-802
PO Box: 17012371
and from 15:00 to 18:00.
Phone numbers: (02) 3971500 (02) 3971502
Fax: (02) 3971555
–0984881288
PO Box: 17-21-038
Website: www.quito.mfa.gov.il
16:30, Mondays to Thursdays.
From 08:30 to 14:00 on Fridays.
Address: 729 9 de Octubre
avenue and Boyaca, 4th floor.
Phone number: (04) 2322555 –
(04) 2322000
Fax: (04) 2328-196
13:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00.
Johnny Czarninski Baier
INDIA
Address: E9-24 Republica de El
Salvador and Suiza, Euro Building, 2nd floor, office B
Phone numbers: (02) 3332212 (02) 3332215
Fax: (02) 2569-017
Email: informació[email protected] / asistente@
camara-ecuatoriana-india.ec
IRAN
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E14-43 Jose Queri
street and Los Granados avenue
PBX:(02) 334-3450 ext 200
FAX:(02) 334-3450 ext 220
Email: embiranecuador@gmail.
com
13:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00
INDONESIA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E15-84 Quiteño Libre
street, Bellavista Neighborhood
Address: 203 Luque and Pedro
Carbo, 4th floor, Apt. 40
Opening hours: 1 from 3:00 to
15:00
Email: lopezmarindos@yahoo.
com
Marcelo Lopez Mestanza.
ITALY
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 111 La Isla street and
Humberto Albornoz
Phone numbers: (02) 3211322 (02) 3211674 - (02) 3210565
Fax: (02) 3210818
PO Box: 17-03-72
/ [email protected]
Website: www.ambitalquito.org
12:30, Mondays to Fridays
Address: 423 P. Icaza between
Cordova and Baquerizo Moreno.
Machala Bank Building, 3rd
floor
Fax: (04) 2568447
13:00.
ISRAEL
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: avenue Coruña E25-58
and San Ignacio, Altana Plaza
Building, 5th floor
JAMAICA
Address: Malecon de Entre Ríos
avenue, Mediterraneo Complex
#8
Fax: (04) 2830-346
Cell phone: 086542 515
Email: consuladojamaicagye@
yahoo.com
A previous appointment is
required.
Ana María Pinchin de Ching
JAPAN
*Embassy (Quito)
avenue and Jose Arizaga,
Amazonas Plaza Building, floors
11 and 12
Phone numbers: (02) 2278700 (02) 2456426 - (02) 2468738
Fax: (02) 2449 399
PO Box: 17-21-01518
/ [email protected] / japembec@
qi.mofa.go.jp
Website: www.ec.emb-ja-pam.
go.jp
and from 14:00 to 17:15.
Address: Km 11.5 Via Daule
Phone numbers: (04) 2100600 (04) 2100973. Ext 212 - 273
Fax: (04) 2100-151
[email protected]
17:00
Honorary Consul General in
Guayaquil
Jaime Simon Isaias
LEBANON
Address: 101 Jose Campos and
Garcíi Aviles, 1st floor
– (04) 2563715
Fax: (04) 2562-692
Guayaquil
121
Juan Saade Saade
MALTA
Address: 905 Malecon between
Victor Manuel Rendon and
Junin. Simon Bolívar Building,
1st floor, Office 103
Fax: (04) 2301948
Email: tjharding@camcomeb.
com
14:00
Trevor Harding Bickle
MEXICO
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: N36–165 6 de Diciembre avenue and Naciones
Unidas
- (02) 2923771 - (02) 5103267
- (02) 2510273
Fax: (02) 2448245
Email: embajadamexecuador@
sre.gob.mx
Website: www.embamex.sre.
gob.mx/ecuador
Fridays, from 9h00 to 18h00.
MONACO
Address: 516 9 de Octubre and
Escobedo
Phone numbers: (04) 2306606 (04) 2328435
Fax: (04) 2567438
13:00
Javier Tola Neira
MOROCCO
Address: 200 Victor Emilio
Estrada and Balsamos
Fax: (04) 2883542
13:00.
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Antonio Alvarez Eljuri
NETHERALNDS
Address: 1502 Quisquis and
Tulcan, 1st floor, Office101
Fax: (04) 2286 047
13:00
NICARAGUA
*Embassy (Quito)
avenue and Moreno Bellido,
COMONSA Building, 5th floor,
Office. 5 a, (across Petro-Comercial gas station)
– (02) 2238885
Fax: (02) 2550796 Ext. 105
Email: embani-caecuador@
cancilleria.gob.ni / smarin@
cancilleria.gob.ni
Address: Lomas de Urdesa (104
Las Brisas and Olmos) Km 7.5.
Milantex Office
– (04) 2250815
Fax: (04) 2251193 – (04)
2206853
13:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00
Honorary Consulate in Guayaquil
Adelsi Ivette Acevedo Perez
NORWAY
Address: 106 Malecon del
Salado and Todos los Santos –
Urdesa
Fax: (04) 2384544
Email: [email protected].
net
14:00
Andres Schmidt Orces
PANAMA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E12-92 German Aleman and Arroyo del Rio (El
Batan)
Phone numbers: (02) 2248321 (02) 2431792 - (02) 2433653
Fax: (02) 2275044
PO Box: 17–07–9017
Email: panaembaecuador@
hotmail.com / [email protected]
Website: www.embajadadepanamaecuador.com
PARAGUAY
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 24-594 12 de Octubre
avenue and General Francisco
Salazar, Torre Sol Verde Building, 8th floor.
Emergency cell phone:
0986247567
Telefax: (02) 2909005
Email: embaparaguayecuador@
hotmail.com / [email protected]
Website: www.embajadadeparaguay.ec
Address: Km 11. 5 Via Daule
(Plasticos del Litoral)
Phone numbers: (04) 2100600.
Ext. 212
Fax: (04) 2100-151
PO Box: 09-01-1299
Guayaquil
Xavier Felix Simon Isaias
PERU
avenue, Block 501, Kennedy
Norte, 14th floor, office 2,
Centrum Building
– (04) 2280135 – (04) 2280142
Fax: (04) 2280183
Website: www.consuladoperuguayaquil.com
PHILIPPINES
Address: Alborada, Block Bt. # 2
Fax: (04) 241944
Opening hours: 10:00 to 14:00
Corazon Oliva de Reyes
POLAND
avenue and Malecon. La Previsora Building, 29th floor, office
2901
– (04) 2325757
Fax: (04) 2326111
PO Box: 09 015 965
and from 13:30 to 17:30.
Francisco Rizzo Pastor
PORTUGAL
*Honorary Consulate en Guayaquil
Address: 603 Los Rios and
Quisquis
Fax: (04) 2441991
PO. Box: 09-01-1217
Opening Hours: from 09:00 to
12:00 and from 15:00 to 18:00
Antonio Marques Firmino
QATAR
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 1820 avenues 12 de
Octubre and Cordero, suite 605,
Swissotel (temporary residence)
Fax: (02) 2528913
[email protected]
RUMANIA
Address: Puntilla, Via Samborondon, Los Lagos Residential
Development Nº 28
Fax: (04) 2834088
Email: com.rumania@yahoo.
com
16:00
Maria Fernanda Parra
RUSSIA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 4612 Reina Victoria
and Ramon Roca
- (02) 2526375 - (02) 2554510
- (02) 2505089 (consular
section)
Fax: 2565-531
PO Box: 17 01 3868
Email: embrusia_ecuador@
mail.ru / conrusia_ecuador@
mail.ru (consular section)
Websites: www.ecuador.mid.ru
Thursdays, from 08:00 to 13:00
and from 15:00 to 19:00. On
Fridays from 08:00 to 12:00
and Asisclo Garay
Fax: (04) 245-1361
Honorary Consulate in Guayaquil
Alfredo Jose Ortega Maldonado
SIRIA
Address: 523 Huancavilca and
Cacique Alvarez
Fax: (04) 2403619
and from 16:00 to 18:00
Juan Saman Abud
SLOVENIA
*Consulate (Quito)
Address: N65-Galo Plaza Lasso
avenue and Los Eucaliptos,
diagonal to Los Recuerdos park,
headquarters of Hidria Perles
Ecuador S.A company.
Phone number: (02) 2485213 –
(02) 2471105
Fax: (02) 2809022
Email: ladislao.medvedsek@
hidria.com
SOUTH KOREA
*Embassy (Quito)
avenue and Cordero, World
Trade Center, B Tower, 3rd floor
Phone number: (02) 2909227 (02) 2909228 - (02) 2909229
Fax: (02) 2501-190
PO Box: 17-03-626
Email: [email protected] / ecuador@
mofa.go.kr
Opening hours: from 08:30
to 12:30 and 14:00 to 17:00,
Mondays to Fridays
Address: Km 3.5 Via Duran –
Tambo.
Fax: (04) 2559-029
Email: lchonill@poligrafica.
com
Opening hours: 09:00 a 16:00.
Luis Chonillo
SPAIN
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E12-73 Francisco
Salazar and Toledo
Phone numbers: (02) 3226296 (02) 3226303 - (02) 3226896
Fax: (02) 3227805
PO Box: 17 01 9322
Website: www.exteriores.es/
embajadas/quito
Consulate: 455 La Pinta and
Amazonas
Address: corner of Velez and
123
Tungurahua
15:30.
SWITZERLAND
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 35-17 Amazonas
avenue and Juan Pablo Sanz,
Xerox Building, 2nd floor
Fax: (02) 2449314
Cell phone: 099568258 (emergencies)
PO Box: 17-11-4815
Email: qui.vertretung@eda.
admin.ch / roland.fischer@eda.
admin.ch
Website: www.eda.admin. ch/
quito
Avenue, Conauto Building, 5th
floor
Fax: (04) 2681997
12:00
Guayaquil
Herbert Frei Perez
TUNISIA
Address: 812 Cordova and Victor
M. Rendon, Torres de la Merced
Building, 5th floor, Office 7
Fax: (04) 2309903
12:00
Honorary general Consul in
Guayaquil
Fathi Ben Bouzid
TURKEY
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: No. 9-28 Sebastian
de Benalcazar street between
Oriente and Esmeraldas
Fax: (02) 2511493
PO Box: 170409
Email: embassy.quito@mfa.
gov.tr
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General Information
Luís Alberto Trujillo Bustamante
UNITED STATES
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: E12-170 Avigiras and
Eloy Alfaro
Phone numbers: (02) 398-5000
After opening hours: (02)
398-5000
Fax: (02) 398-5100
PO Box: 17-17-1538
12:30 and 13:30 to 17:00
Consular Section: (02) 3985000
Customer service: Mondays to
Thursdays from 07:30 to 12:00
and from 13:30 to 15:00.
Usaid: Avigiras E12-170 and
Eloy Alfaro
Address: Santa Ana street and
José Rodriguez Bonin avenue
Call center for other provinces
of Ecuador: (04) 371-7000
For Guayaquil and another
cities of the Guayas province:
371-7000
VENEZUELA
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: N30-240 Amazonas avenue and Eloy Alfaro, COMONSA
Building, floors 8 and 9
Phone numbers: (02) 2554032 (02) 2557209 - (02) 2554483
Fax: (02) 2520306 - (02)
2232334 - (02) 3238318
PO Box: 17-01-688
Email: embve.ecuador@mppre.
gob.ve
Website: www.venezuela.org.ec
Opening Hours: from 08:00 to
13:00 and from 14:00 to 17:00,
Mondays to Fridays
Address: 329 Chile and Aguirre,
2nd floor, Bontex Building
Phone numbers: (04) 2326600 (04) 2326579 - (04) 2326566
Fax: (04) 2320-751
Email: conve.ecgiq@mppre.
gob.ve
13:00
Consulate General in Guayaquil
Marco Antonio Carrillo Jimenez.
URUGUAY
*Embassy (Quito)
Address: 2816 6 de Diciembre
avenue and Paul Rivet “Josueth González” Building, 9th
floor
- (02) 2544228 - (02) 2541968
Fax: (02) 2563763
PO Box: 17-12-282
Address: 114 Junín and Malecon, Torres del Rio Building,
5th floor, Office 9
Fax: (04) 2563952
Fridays: from 09:30 to 13:30
Hotel
Accommodations
LUXURY HOTELS
CONTINENTAL HOTEL
Address: 510 Chile avenue and
10 de Agosto street
Parish: Rocafuerte
Phone numbers: 04)2329270 –
(04)2325454
Website: www.hotelcontinental.
com.ec
Email: reservas@hotel continental.com.ec
GRAND GUAYAQUIL HOTEL
Address: 1506 Boyaca avenue
and Clemente Ballen street
Parish: Rocafuerte
Phone number: (04)2329690
Website: www.grandhotelguayaquil.com/
HAMPTON INN BOULEVARD
HOTEL
Address: 432 9 de Octubre Boulevard and Baquerizo Moreno
Avenue.
Parish: Carbo
Website: www.guayaquilhamptoninn.com
HILTON COLON HOTEL
avenue and Víctor Hugo Sicouret street.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: www.guayaquilhilton.
com
ORO VERDE HOTEL
Boulevard and Garcia Moreno
Avenue.
Parish: 9 de Octubre
Phone numbers: (04)2327999
– (04) 2329350
Website: [email protected]
Email: www.oroverdehotelel.com
RAMADA HOTEL
Address: 606 Malecon Simon
Bolivar avenue and Manuel
Luzarraga street.
Parish: Carbo
– (04)2565555
Website: www.hotelramada.com
UNIPARK HOTEL
street and Chile Avenue.
Parish: Rocafuerte
– (04) 2328352
Website: www.uniparkhotel.com
SHERATON HOTEL
Address: Joaquín Orrantia street
and Juan Tanca Marengo Avenue, Plaza del Sol.
Parish: Tarqui
– (04)2082081
Website: www.ghlhoteles.com
Email: reservas@sheraton.
com.ec
COURTYARD BY MARRIOT
GUAYAQUIL
Address: 236 Francisco de
Orellana Avenue, Blue Towers
Building.
Parish: Tarqui
– (04)2082081
Website: www.courtyardguayaquil.com
HM INTERNACIONAL
Address: Kennedy Norte Citadel,
Lot 7, Block 305.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: www.hmhotel.ec
SONESTA
Address: Joaquín Orrantia street
and Leopoldo Benitez Avenue.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: http://espanol.sonesta.com/guayaquil/
HOLIDAY INN GUAYAQUIL
AIRPORT
Address: Jaime Roldos Aguilera
avenue (next to Jose Joaquín
de Olmedo Airport).
Parish: Tarqui
Website: www.holidayinn.com
WYNDHAM GUAYAQUIL
Address: Puerto Santa Ana, at
the end of Numa Pompilio Llona
street in Las Peñas Neighborhood.
Parrish: Tarqui
Website: http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/ecuador/
guayaquil-guayas/wyndhamguayaquil/hotel-overview
FIRST - CLASS
ALEXANDER HOTEL
Address: 1107 Luque street and
Pedro Moncayo Avenue.
Parish: Rocafuerte
– (04)2328474
Website: http://hotelalexander.
com.ec/
DORAL HOTEL
Aguirre street.
Parish: Rocafuerte
Phone numbers: 2328490 –
2327088
Website: www.hdoral.com
RIZZO HOTEL
street and Chile Avenue.
Parish: Rocafuerte
– (04)2320544
Website: www.rizzohotel.ec
SOL DE ORIENTE HOTEL
Address: 603 Aguirre street #
603 and Escobedo Avenue.
Parish: Rocafuerte
Phone numbers: (04)2325500 –
(04) 2329352
Website: www.hotelsoloriente.
com
SOL DE ORO
Address: 1243 Lorenzo de
Garaycoa avenue and Clemente
Ballen street.
Parish: Rocafuerte
(04)2532067/8
MARCELIUS
Address: Jose Falconi avenue
and y Jose AlaVedra Tama
street.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: www.hotelmarcelius.com
GOLD CENTER HOTEL
Address: Rodolfo Baquerizo Nazur avenue, V Stage, Alborada
Citadel.
125
Parish: Rocafuerte
– (04)2262883
Website: www.goldcenterhotel.
com
PALACE HOTEL
Luque street.
Parish: Rocafuerte
(04) 2322887
Website: www.hotelpalaceguayaquil.com.ec
CASTELL HOTEL
Address: Miguel H. Alcívar avenue and Pumpilio Ulloa street,
Kennedy Norte Citadel.
Parish: Tarqui
– (04)2680099
Website: www.hotelcastell.com
CITY PLAZA HOTEL
Address: 922 Boyaca avenue
and Víctor Manuel Rendon
street.
Parish: Roca
Website: http://www.hotelcityplaza.com.ec/
CORONA REAL HOTEL
Address: Enrique de Grau Ruiz
avenue, Sauces IX, block L11,
lot 12.
Parish: Tarqui
MANGING GALLERY HOTEL
Boulevard and Garcia Moreno
avenue.
Parish: 9 de Octubre
Category: first-class
– (04)2691881
Website: www.hotelgaleriamanging.com
Email: reservas@hotelgaleria126
General Information
manging.com
AIRPORT HOTEL
Address: Americas avenue and
A street.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: http://airporthotelguayaquil.com
SECOND - CLASS
LA TORRE HOTEL
Luque street, Torre Azul Building floors 13-14 -15.
Parish: Rocafuerte
– (04)2531354
Website: www.latorrehotel.
com.ec
CALIFORNIA HOTEL
Address: 601 Ximena avenue
and Urdaneta street.
Parish: Roca
(04)2562548
Email: hotelcalifornia_@
hotmail.com
NEVADA HOTEL
Address: 710 Lorenzo de Garaycoa avenue and Quisquis street.
Parish: Roca
ALBORADA HOTEL
Address: La Alborada Citadel, IX
Stage, block 935, villa 8.
Parish: Tarqui
(04)2641444
HOTEL HOWARD JOHNSON
avenue and Abel Romero Castillo Avenue.
Parish: Tarqui
Phone numbers: (04)2397374(04)3900202
Website: www.ghlhotel.com.co
MARCELIUS HOTEL (BRANCH)
Address: Miguel H. Alcívar avenue and Abel Romero Castillo
Avenue, Kennedy Norte Citadel.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: www.hotelmarcelius.
com/indec.htm
Email: marcelius_hotel@
hotmail.com
MALECON INN HOTEL
Address: 203 Sucre street and
Pichincha avenue.
Parish: Rocafuerte
2511290
Website: http://www.maleconinn.com/home.html
ORQUIDEA INTERNACIONAL
HOTEL
Address: 309 J.J. Olmedo
Boulevard and Chile street.
Parish: Olmedo
Website: www.orquideainternacionalhotel.com
HOTEL PRESIDENTE INTERNACIONAL
Address: 112 Junin street and
Ximena avenue.
Parish: Roca
Website: http://presidenteinternacional.com/
TROPICAL INTERNACIONAL
HOTEL
Address: 516 Ambato avenue
and General Gomez street.
Parish: Ayacucho
Category: Second-class
– (04)6012133
Website: www.hoteltropicalinn.
com
GARZOTA INN Address: Isidro Ayora avenue
and Camilo Nevarez avenue.
Parish: Tarqui
Website: http://www.hotelgarzotainn.com
VERSAILLES INTERNACIONAL
Address: 100 Junin street and
Ximena avenue.
Parish: Roca
Email: hotelversailes@hotmail.
com
ONIX GOLD
Address: 514 Jose de Antepara
avenue between Padre Solano y
Luis Urdaneta streets.
Parish: Tarqui
RESIDENTIAL HOSTEL
FIRST-CLASS
MANSO BOUTIQUE HOSTEL
Address: 1406 Malecon Simon
Bolivar avenue and Aguirre
street
Parish: Rocafuerte
Website: www.manso.ec
BOARDING HOUSE
FIRST-CLASS
MANSION DEL RÍO
Address: 120 Numa Pompilio
Llona street, next to Puerto
Santa Ana.
Parish: Tarqui
2565827 – 2565983
Website: www.mansiondelrioec.com
APART-HOTEL
FIRST-CLASS
APART HOTEL KENNEDY
Address: Kennedy Norte Citadel
(near Hilton Colon Hotel)
Parish: Tarqui
Phone numbers: 2681 111 –
2681 060
Email: reservas@hotelkennedy.
com.ec
Shopping malls
LAS VITRINAS
Address: Kennedy Norte Citadel,
Dr. Juan Bautista Arzube street
between avenue 11 Northeast
and Blind Alley 11 Northeast.
POLICENTRO
Address: Kennedy Norte Citalde.
Avenues Plaza Dañin and San
Jorge.
PLAZA QUIL
Address: Carlos Luis Plaza Dañin
avenue and Francisco Boloña
street.
SAN MARINO SHOPPING
CENTER
Address: Avenues Francisco de
Orellana and Plaza Dañin.
PASEO ORELLANA
Orellana and Santiago Castillo.
MALL DEL SOL
Address: Avenues Joaquin Orrantia and Constitucion.
ALBOCENTRO
Address: Rodolfo Baquerizo
Nazur avenue and Gabriel
Roldos street.
PLAZA LA GARZOTA (GARZOCENTRO)
Address: Avenues Agustin Freire
and Guillermo Pareja.
PLAZA MAYOR
Address: Guillermo Pareja
Rolando avenue and Segundo
Cueva Celi street.
LA ROTONDA
Address: Benjamin Carrion
avenue and Third street.
CITY MALL
Address: Benjamin Carrino Mora
avenue and y Pedro Valverde
Alvarez street.
RIOCENTRO NORTE
Orellana and Guillermo Pareja.
RIOCENTRO CEIBOS
Address: Bombero Avenue, km
6.5 Via the Coast.
PLAZA CEIBOS SHOPPING
Address: Leopoldo Carrera Calvo
avenue, via Campus ESPOL
Prosperina “Gustavo Galindo”.
CENTRO COMERCIAL LOS CEIBOS
Address: Los Ceibos Citadel,
streets Dr. Jose de Rubira
Ramos and Dr. Jose Luis Auzlandazuri.
PIAZZA LOS CEIBOS
Address: Bombero avenue, km
6.5 Via the Coast.
PLAZA COLONIA
Address: Via the Coast, km 11.5
BLUE COAST CENTER
Address: Via the Coast, km 11.5.
COSTALMAR SHOPPING CENTER
Address: Via the Coast, Km 14.
LAGUNA PLAZA
Address: Via the Coast, km 12.5.
MUNICIPAL FLOWER MARKET
“ZAYDA LETTY CASTILLO”
Address: Machala avenue
between streets Vicente Piedrahita and Julian Coronel.
UNICENTRO
Address: Aguirre street between
streets Ch
imborazo and Chile.
PLAZA TRIÁNGULO
Address: Victor Emilio Estrada
avenue and Datiles street.
PASEO COMERCIAL EL CORREO
Address: Pedro Carbo street
betnwen streets Clemente Ballen and Aguirre
AVENTURA PLAZA
Address: Avenues Las Monjas
and Carlos Julio Arosemena.
CRAFT MARKET OF GUAYAQUIL
Address: streets Loja and
Baquerizo Moreno.
ALBAN BORJA
Address: Carlos Julio Arosemena
avenue and Ilanes street.
MALECON 2000
avenue from Olmedo street
until Colon street.
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Terrestrial distances (km)
The shortest paths are taken (urban sections are not included)
Locality
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 91011121314 15
1Ambato
0269220 406 40306338390288 99440251 47511 701
2Azoguez
269 0238 493272 37260630213252279520316242 432
3Babahoyo 220238 0 322273275130392 83121278455267240 427
4Bahia
406493322 0446530248392280381533455375895 682
5Baños
40272237 446 0309335430288116445291 87514 704
6Cuenca
306 37275 530309 0297667250289242557353205 395
7Daule
388260130 248336297 0425 47251300488313455 449
8Esmeraldas 390630392 392430667425 0472489670433343832 819
9Guayaquil 288213 83 280288550 47472 0204253535335415 402
10Guaranda
99252121 381116289251489204 0399350146494 684
11Huaquillas 440279278 533445242300670253399 0693489233 195
12Ibarra
251520455 455291557488433535350693 0204762 952
13Latacunga
47316 267 375 87353 313343335146 489204 0 558 748
14Loja
511242440 895514205455832415494233762558 0 190
15Macara
701432427 682704395449819402684195952748190 0
16Macas
230219427 842190231479620432305473479277436 626
17Machachi
99368313 313739405346291393198541152 52610 800
18Machala
382225216 471383188238608191337 73633492235 222
19Manta
404409281 120444448157442196402449505355611 598
20Otavalo
231500435 435271537468413515330673 20184742 932
21Playas
385310180 364385347131556 97301350632432512 499
22Portoviejo 369407248 86409444155407194367447470320609 596
23Puyo
101333298 513 61370396491349176506350148519 709
24Quevedo
224341193 219264378138289183224381352177543 530
25Quininde 290560292 292330567325100372413570333243732 719
26Quito
136405304 340176442373318420235578115 89647 837
27Riobamba
52217182 464555254280442233 61390303 99459 649
28Rumichaca 380649584 5844206866175626644798221293338911081
29Salinas
451376246 308451413197622163367416685498578 565
30 Sto. Domingo205445207 207245482240185287328485248158847 634
31Tena
180412377 586140449475497428255585271227598 788
32Tulcán
376645580 5804166826135586604758181253298871077
33Zamora
575306504 759516269519896481558297826622 64 254
BAHIA MALL
Address: streets Chile and
Chiriboga.
CENTRO SUR
Address: streets Chile and
Azuay.
CRAFT MARKET OF MALECON2000
avenue, next to Febres- Cordero
street.
MALL DEL SUR
Address: Avenues 25 de julio
and Dr. Ernesto Alban.
CRAFT SHOPPING CENTER
MACHALA
Address: Machala avenue
between streets Ayacucho and
Pedro Pablo Gomez.
128
General Information
RIOCENTRO SUR
Address: 25 de Julio avenue and
y Pio Jaramillo Alvarado street.
CENTRO COMERCIAL EL FORTÍN
Address: Avenues Modesto
Luque and Casuarina.
Conventions Center
SIMON BOLIVAR CONVENTION
CENTER
Address: Las Américas avenue and Dr.
Abel Romero Castillo street.
RODOLFO BAQUERIZO MORENO
EXHIBITION CENTER
Address: Boulevard 9 de Octubre
avenue and Tungurahua street.
OLD SOUTH MARKET
(CRYSTAL PALACE)
Address: Malecon Simon Bolivar, next
to Manabi street, Integration Square.
16 171819 2021 2223242526272829 3031 3233
230 99382404 231385 369101224290136 52380451 205180 376575
219 368225409 500310 407333341530405217649376 445412 645306
427 313218281 435180 242298103292304182584246 207377 580504
842 313471120 435364 86513219292340464584308 207586 580759
190 139383444 271385 409 61264330176 55420471 245140 416516
231 405188448 537347 444370378567442254686413 482449 682269
479 346238157 488131 155396138325373280617197 240475 613519
620 291608442 413556 407491289100318442562622 185497 558896
432 383191196 515 97 194349183372420233664163 287428 660481
305 198337402 330301 367176224413235 61479367 328255 475558
473 541 73449 673350 447506391570578390822416 485585 818297
479 152633505 20632 470350352333115303189685 248271 125826
277 52 492355 184432 320148177 243 89 99333 498 158 227 329 622
436 610235611 742512 609519543732647459891578 847598 887 64
626 800222598 932499 596709530719837649
1081565 6347881077254
0 329419628 459529 626129455520366245608595 435208 604326
329 0481363 132480 328200210191 37151281546 106215 277674
419 481 0387 613288 385444219508518328762354 423523 758299
628 363387 0 485280 35505178342390356634225 257584 630675
459 132613485 0612 450330332313 95285149667 228251 145806
529 480288280 612 0 278446267458517330761120 371525 1575776
626 328385 35 450278 0470143307355427599222 222549 595673
129 200444505 330446 470 0325391237116479512 306 79 475455
454 210319178 332267 143325 0189237276481333 104404 477607
520 191508342 313458 307391189 0218342462522 85397 458796
366 37518390 95517 355237237218 0188244570 133186 240711
245 151328456 285330 427116276342188 0432398 257195 428523
6082891762634 149361 599479481462244432 0514 377400 4955
595 546354225 665120 222512333522570396814 0 437591 810642
435 106423257 228371 222306104 85133257377437 0312 373711
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Sports Venues
LUIS CHIRIBOGA PARRA
STADIUM
Address: streets 40 and J.
CISNE 2 SPORTS COMPLEX
Address: Cooperative Cisne 2,
Las Balsas Avenue.
GEORGE CAPWELL STADIUM
OF EMELEC (BANCO DEL PACIFICO)
Address: Quito avenue between
streets General Gomez, San
Martín and Pio Montufar.
YEYO URAGA BASEBALL STADIUM
Address: Tungurahua street and
Damian Najera Avenue.
(next to Bellavista).
RAMON UNAMUNO STADIUM
Address: streets Los Rios and
Cuenca.
SPENCER
Address: avenues Las Americas
and Kennedy.
ABEL JIMENEZ PARRA COLISEUM
Address: Tungurahua street and
Capitan Najera Avenue.
VOLTAIRE PALADINES POLO
MONUMENTAL STADIUM OF
BARCELONA (BANCO DEL
PICHINCHA)
Address: Barcelona avenue and
Barcelona pedestrian bridge
MODELO STADIUM ALBERTO
COLISEUM
Address: avenues Las Americas
and Kennedy.
BASEBALL FIELDS OF
KENNEDY CITADEl
Address: Kennedy Citadel,
129
streets 7th west and G.
MIRAFLORES BASEBALL
FIELDS
Address: Victor Emilio Estrada
avenue and Enrique Diaz Galarza street.
CARLOS PEREZ PERASSO
GUAYAQUIL COUNTRY CLUB
Address: Via Daule, km 33.5
CHILD-JUVENILE MI LOTE
Address: Mucho Lote 1, Stage
2, Block 3.
Museums
Avenue, next to Loja street.
GUAYAQUIL IN HISTORY
MINIATURE MUSEUM
Avenue, next to Loja street.
EL FORTIN DE SANTA ANA
LUIS A. NOBOA NARANJO
SPORTS COURTS
Address: Martha Bucaram de
Roldos street and Barcelona
Avenue, San Eduardo Hill, Via
Daule
MUSEUM
Address: Stair 380 of the Diego
Noboa Stairways, Santa Ana
Hill, northeast of the city.
MUSEUM
Address: General Cordova
avenue and P. Icaza street,
downtown.
JULIO JARAMILLO POPULAR
NATIONAL TENNIS CLUB
Address: Via Daule, km 6.5.
MUSIC MUSEUM
Address: Santa Ana Port, Building # 3, second floor, northeast
of the city.
NAHIM ISAIAS MUSEUM
Address: Pichincha avenue and
Clemente Ballen street, Administration Square, downtown.
CHRISTIAN BENITEZ BETANCOURT STADIUM
Address: Los Vergeles Citadel
sector, between citadels Los
Samanes 7 and Orquideas (6NE
Santa Narcisa de Jesús Avenue),
north of the city.
MULTIPORPUSE SPORTS
BEER MUSEUM
Address: Santa Ana Port, Building # 3, second floor, northeast
of the city.
SHIPYARD MUSUEM: BARCE-
COURTS OF LINEAL PARK
Address: Via the Coast, Km. 8.5.
LONA AND EMELEC
Address: Santa Ana Port, Building # 3., second floor, northeast of the city.
ECO-SPORT TRINITARIA
Address: Marcelo Mario Suarez
Montesdeoca Avenue, Isla
Trinitaria.
“CORONEL FELIX LUQUE
PLATA” FIREFIGHTERS MU-
ALEJANDRO PONCE NOBOA
STADIUM
Address: Pío Jaramillo Alvarado
avenue and Sixto Duran Barrera
street, Fertisa sector, Sopeña
Neighborhood.
SEUM
Address: Vernaza Blind Alley
Malecon Simon Bolivar Avenue,
Colon Square.
“MARIA EUGENIA PUIG
LINCE” HISTORY OF GUAYA-
GUAYAQUIL TENNIS CLUB
Address: 9 de Octubre avenue
and Lizardo Garcia street.
QUIL IN CLAY MUSEUM
Address: Barcelona S.C. Avenue, between the bridges El
Velero and 17th street, northeast of the city.
HORSE RIDING COUNTRY CLUB
Address: Via Daule, km 22
ANTROPOLOGICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ART MUSUEM
(MAAC)
130
General Information
MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF
GUAYAQUIL
Address: Diez de Agosto avenue
and Chile street, downtown.
CARLOS ZEBALLOS MENENDEZ
MUSEUM (CULTURAL CENTER)
Address: 1200 Boulevard 9 de
Octubre and Pedro Moncayo
street, Cultural Center of Guayas
Building, 5th floor, downtown.
PRESLEY NORTON MUSEUM
Address: Boulevard 9 de
Octubre and Carchi Avenue,
downtown.
BAE CALDERON NAVAL MUSEUM
Address: Eloy Alfaro avenue and
Cañar street (32-A SE), south
of the city.
CONTEMPORARY NAVAL MUSEUM
Address: Fray Vacas Galindo
street and Jose Maria Urbina avenue (11 SE), south of the city.
Gloria Gallardo Zavala
President of the Public And Municipal Company of Tourism,
Civic Promotion and International Relations of Guayaquil
T
he President of the Public and
Municipal Company of Tourism,
Civic Promotion and International
Relations of Guayaquil is proud to
present to the people of Guayaquil,
to all Ecuadorians and foreigners, the
official guides of the Municipality of
Guayaquil based in an inventory made
by categories, with directions and
parishes, including the respective maps;
to promote them with our brand
“Guayaquil is my destination”, which has
represented a gigantic work that have
had the support of the Tourism team,
and the Director of Communication and
Urbanism and the Vistazo Group; from
historian Parsival Castro and Engineer
Aldo Mora who designed the maps. My
special gratitude to Carlos Julio Gonzalez
and Priscilla Parker who enriched these
guides with their wonderful pictures; also
to Lourdes Taznic and Ana Lema for the
work carried out on the Cocoa Route.
My eternal appreciation to all the
people that have made possible this
great work of presenting Guayaquil as
“the city of the River and the Estuary”,
with all its history, identity, beauty and
progress; a work achieved that represent
a dream come true for us.
Guayaquil is my Destination to know
its history
its heritage
its Museums and street Art.
Guayaquil is my Destination to live
the Route of Faith
Guayaquil is my Destination to have
fun and enjoy
Guayaquil is my Destination to enjoy
its nature
Guayaquil is my Destination to taste
its gastronomy
These official guides will be available
in PDF in the website web turismo.
guayaquil.gob.ec, for consults and
downloads.
All the information will be also
available through the mobile apps for
tablets and smartphones. Tourists will be
able to use GPS in their mobile devices
to get to the chosen destinations. In this
way, they can locate the sites they want
to go and tour the city of Guayaquil.
“Guayaquil captain of my soul, owner
of my destiny, you are the light that
illuminates my life, where my dreams
come true”.
Guayaquil is my destination.
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to know its history - Guayaquil es mi Destino

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