Santa Elena Province

Santa Elena is an established on 7 November 2007 Province of the Republic of Ecuador. It consists of the three formerly belonging to the province of Guayas cantons Santa Elena Salinas and La Libertad. The new province has an oil refinery, an airport, a port and comprehensive tourist infrastructure, particularly in the seaside resort of Salinas.

Geography

The Santa Elena Province is located in the extreme west of Ecuador, centrally located in North-South direction, on the Santa Elena Peninsula, which protrudes from the Ecuadorian mainland in the Pacific Ocean and climate is a continuation of the coastal desert in northwestern Peru. The climate is accordingly mainly dry and hot.

The province is bordered on the south by the Gulf of Guayaquil, in the west on the open Pacific Ocean, the north by the province of Manabí and on the east by the "mother province " Guayas.

Policy

On 1 March 2007 President Correa signed a draft law which summarizes the cantons of La Libertad, Santa Elena Salinas and in 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 was administered until the election of prefects by a government committee of representatives of the cantons and the Governor appointed by the President Ana Treviño. In elections on March 16, 2008, a prefect, and the province of Parliament were elected. The elections to the prefecture won the previous Governor Ana Treviño for Movimiento País. As her successor in the governorship was named in May Gino Gonzalez.

Cantons

The Santa Elena province consists of three cantons:

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