Guayas Province
The Guayas Province (Spanish: Provincia del Guayas ) is with an estimated population of 3.5 million ( 2005), the most populous province in Ecuador. It is located on the Pacific coast of the country and named after the river Guayas, whose catchment system it permeates and shapes. The provincial capital is Guayaquil.
Location
The Guayas Province is located in the center of the coastal lowlands (Costa) of Ecuador. To the south it borders the province of El Oro and the Gulf of Guayaquil, on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean. Your neighboring provinces are in October / November 2007 divested from Guayas Province of Santa Elena in the West, Manabí in the northwest, Los Ríos in the northeast and east, Chimborazo, Cañar and El Oro in the east.
Policy
The dominant political party of the province is the Partido Social Cristiano, the Social Christian Party of Ecuador.
Its members include the confirmed in the 2004 election, directly elected prefect of the province, Nicolás Lapentti (the father of the eponymous tennis player ), the majority of the members of the Provincial Council ( Consejo Provincial ) and 17 of the 28 mayors of the canton capitals. Among the latter there is also Jaime Nebot, the mayor of the capital city of Guayaquil and two-time presidential candidate of his party.
The governor appointed by the president of Ecuador is since October 2008, Francisco Jiménez.
On 1 March 2007 President Correa signed a draft law that the cantons La Libertad, Santa Elena Salinas and summed to form a new " Province of Santa Elena ." The prefect of Guayas, the mayor of Guayaquil and large parts of the Provincial Council were opposed to the spin-off of the new province, which was ratified after long negotiations and partly violent strikes in the cantons concerned, on 7 November 2007 by the National Congress. The Santa Elena province exists now and is administered for 90 days until the election of prefects by a government committee of representatives of the cantons and the Governor appointed by the President Ana Treviño.
History
Since about 3500 BC Parts of the present province were inhabited, of which artifacts of the Valdivia culture testify.
The province was proclaimed 1820 as " Free Province of Guayaquil " and included the present provinces of Guayas, Los Ríos, El Oro, Manabí and Santa Elena. The first president was José Joaquín de Olmedo. The Law on the Territorial order of Greater Colombia was created in 1824 Department of Guayaquil as an administrative unit of Greater Colombia, which also includes the newly named Guayas province belonged. Since the founding of the state in 1830, the province is one of Ecuador and is in the 20th and 21st centuries its most populous and economically powerful province.
Cantons
The Guayas province is divided into 25 cantons with a varying number of about 50 urban and rural parishes 35-40 ( parroquias ). These are ( in order of establishment ):
Now, to the province of Santa Elena include: