Durán
Durán, also known as Eloy Alfaro, is the second largest city in the province of Guayas, Ecuador and the seat of Durán Canton. It is located near the confluence of the Daule & Babahoyo rivers, where the Guayas River enters the ocean, across the Guayas River from Guayaquil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 179,000 residents
- Description: city of Guayas Province, Ecuador
- Also known as: “Alfaro”, “Duran”, “Durán (Ecuador)”, “Durán, Ecuador”, and “Eloy Alfaro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Unity Bridge and Duran.
National Unity Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Marco Jácome, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Unity Bridge is a bridge complex in northeastern Guayaquil, Ecuador with a length of 2,186 metres. The National Unity Bridge crosses the Daule River and Babahoyo River, which combine to form the Guayas River immediately downstream.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guayaquil.
Guayaquil
Photo: Frankiac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guayaquil is the largest city in Ecuador. This article also covers Durán, which is a UNESCO Creative City on the other side of the river.
Durán
- Category: locality
- Location: Eloy Alfaro (Duran), Durán Canton, Guayas, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.1689° or 2° 10′ 8″ southLongitude
-79.8341° or 79° 50′ 3″ westPopulation
179,000Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)United Nations Location Code
EC DUNOpen location code
6792R5J8+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 249423310OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Volapük—“Durán” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Durán”
- Catalan: “Durán (Equador)”
- Catalan: “Durán, Equador”
- Catalan: “Duran”
- Catalan: “Durán”
- Catalan: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Cebuano: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Cebuano: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Cebuano: “Durán”
- Cebuano: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Central Kurdish: “دوران، ئێکوادۆر”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Duran”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Durán”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Chinese: “杜兰”
- Chinese: “杜蘭”
- Dutch: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Dutch: “Duran, Ecuador”
- Dutch: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Dutch: “Durán”
- Esperanto: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Esperanto: “Durán”
- French: “Durán (Équateur)”
- French: “Durán, Équateur”
- French: “Duran”
- French: “Durán”
- French: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Galician: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Galician: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Galician: “Duran”
- Galician: “Durán”
- Galician: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Georgian: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Georgian: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Georgian: “Durán”
- Georgian: “დურანი”
- German: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- German: “Durán, Ecuador”
- German: “Durán”
- Hebrew: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Hebrew: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Hebrew: “Durán”
- Irish: “Durán”
- Italian: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Italian: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Italian: “Durán”
- Japanese: “エロイアルファロ”
- Japanese: “ドゥラン”
- Japanese: “ドュラン”
- Korean: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Korean: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Korean: “Durán”
- Korean: “두란”
- Lithuanian: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Lithuanian: “Durán”
- Lithuanian: “Duranas”
- Northern Frisian: “Durán (Ekwadoor)”
- Northern Frisian: “Durán”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Durán”
- Norwegian: “Durán”
- Ossetian: “Дуран (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Дуран”
- Persian: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Persian: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Persian: “Durán”
- Persian: “دورن (گوایاس)”
- Persian: “دورن”
- Polish: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Polish: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Polish: “Durán”
- Portuguese: “Durán (Equador)”
- Portuguese: “Durán, Equador”
- Portuguese: “Duran”
- Portuguese: “Durán”
- Portuguese: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Quechua: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Quechua: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Quechua: “Durán”
- Russian: “Дуран”
- Sinhala: “ඩුරන්, ඉක්වදෝරය”
- Spanish: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Spanish: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Spanish: “Duran”
- Spanish: “Durán”
- Spanish: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Swedish: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Swedish: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Swedish: “Durán”
- Swedish: “Eloy Alfaro”
- Tatar: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Tatar: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Tatar: “Durán”
- Tatar: “Дуран”
- Venetian: “Durán”
- Volapük: “Durán (Ecuador)”
- Volapük: “Durán, Ecuador”
- Volapük: “Durán”
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