Daule, Guayas

The city is located on the eponymous river Daule Daule in the province of Guayas in Ecuador. Daule is the seat of the canton of the same name. The 34 632 inhabitants ( 2005) A city located 44 kilometers north of the provincial capital, Guayaquil.

Canton Daule

The canton Daule 1820 set as the Free State province of Guayaquil under José Joaquín de Olmedo before their accession to Gran Colombia and is older than the 1830 founded from the crumbling Great Colombia Republic Ecuador. It has about 84,500 inhabitants (2005) and was in the 19th century one of the largest cantons of the country.

In the 20th century a number of new cantons were spun off from its territory; about one-third of today's 28 cantons of the province of Guayas are spin-offs from Daule or his " daughter cantons ".

The canton covers today an area of ​​2747 km ², which is adjacent to the cantons Santa Lucía ( in the north), Lomas de Sargentillo ( in the west), Guayaquil ( in the south) and Salitre and samborondon (in the east ). Daule is commonly known as the rice bowl of Ecuador, as in the Canton area mainly rice is planted. In addition to cocoa, corn and tropical fruits ( especially noticeable the mango plantations are ) attached. The industry is primarily rice processing ( shelling plants, rice mills ).