Esmeraldas

Esmeraldas is a coastal city in , It has one of the most popular beaches in Ecuador. Thousands of tourists come to Esmeraldas to enjoy the beautiful warm tropical weather, not cold at all and not too hot.
  • City with about 155,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (50 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ESM
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Esmeraldas Province
  • Also known as
    “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
    “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
    “Volcán Chimborazo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Folke Anderson.
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Latitude
0.9668° or 0° 58′ 1″ north
Longitude
-79.6524° or 79° 39′ 9″ west
UN/LOCODE
EC ESM
Open location code
67G2X88X+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Esmeraldas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Arabic: “Esmeraldas”
  • Arabic: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Arabic: “إسمرالداس”
  • Armenian: “Էսմերալդաս”
  • Asturian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Esmeraldas”
  • Basque: “Esmeraldas (Ekuador)”
  • Basque: “Esmeraldas”
  • Belarusian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Belarusian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Belarusian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Belarusian: “Эсмеральдас”
  • Belarusian: “Эсмэральдас”
  • Bengali: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Bengali: “Esmeraldas”
  • Bengali: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Bengali: “এসমেরালডাস”
  • Catalan: “Esmeraldas (Equador)”
  • Catalan: “Esmeraldas”
  • Catalan: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Cebuano: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Cebuano: “Esmeraldas”
  • Cebuano: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Esmeraldas”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Chinese: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Chinese: “Esmeraldas”
  • Chinese: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Chinese: “埃斯梅拉达斯”
  • Chinese: “埃斯梅拉達斯”
  • Czech: “Esmeraldas (Ekvádor)”
  • Czech: “Esmeraldas”
  • Czech: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Danish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Danish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Danish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Dutch: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Dutch: “Esmeraldas”
  • Dutch: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسمرالداس”
  • Esperanto: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Esperanto: “Esmeraldas”
  • Esperanto: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Esperanto: “Smeraldoj”
  • Estonian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Estonian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Estonian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Finnish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Finnish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Finnish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • French: “Esmeraldas (Équateur)”
  • French: “Esmeraldas”
  • French: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Galician: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Galician: “Esmeraldas”
  • Galician: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • German: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • German: “Esmeraldas”
  • German: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Greek: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Greek: “Esmeraldas”
  • Greek: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Greek: “Εσμεράλδας”
  • Greek: “Εσμεράλντας”
  • Gujarati: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Gujarati: “Esmeraldas”
  • Gujarati: “એસ્મેરાલ્ડાસ”
  • Hebrew: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Hebrew: “Esmeraldas”
  • Hebrew: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Hebrew: “אסמראלדאס”
  • Hindi: “एस्मेराल्दास”
  • Hindi: “सान मातेओ दे लास एस्मेराल्दास”
  • Hungarian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Hungarian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Hungarian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Indonesian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Indonesian: “Esmeraldas, Ekuador”
  • Indonesian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Irish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Italian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Italian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Italian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Japanese: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Japanese: “Esmeraldas”
  • Japanese: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Japanese: “エスメラルダス”
  • Jèrriais: “Esmeraldas”
  • Kannada: “Esmeraldas”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಮೆರಾಲ್ಡಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Korean: “Esmeraldas”
  • Korean: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Korean: “에스메랄다스”
  • Latvian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Latvian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Latvian: “Esmeraldasa”
  • Latvian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Lithuanian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Lithuanian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Lithuanian: “Esmeraldasas”
  • Lithuanian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Malay: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Malay: “Esmeraldas”
  • Malay: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Marathi: “Esmeraldas”
  • Marathi: “एस्मराल्डास”
  • Moksha: “Эсмэральдас”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esmeraldas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esmeraldas”
  • Norwegian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Persian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Persian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Persian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Persian: “اسمرالداس، اکوادور”
  • Persian: “اسمرالداس”
  • Polish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Polish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Polish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Portuguese: “Esmeraldas (Equador)”
  • Portuguese: “Esmeraldas”
  • Portuguese: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Quechua: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Quechua: “Esmeraldas”
  • Quechua: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Romanian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Romanian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Romanian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Russian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Russian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Russian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Russian: “Эсмеральдас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Esmeraldas (Ekvador)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Silesian: “Esmeraldas (Ekwadůr)”
  • Silesian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Sinhala: “Esmeraldas”
  • Sinhala: “එස්මෙරල්දාස්, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “එස්මෙරල්දාස්”
  • Slovak: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Slovak: “Esmeraldas”
  • Slovak: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Spanish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Spanish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Spanish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Spanish: “San Mateo”
  • Swedish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Swedish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Swedish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Tamil: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Tamil: “Esmeraldas”
  • Tamil: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Tamil: “எஸ்மெறால்டஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Tatar: “Esmeraldas”
  • Tatar: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Tatar: “Эсмеральдас”
  • Telugu: “Esmeraldas”
  • Telugu: “ఎస్మెరాల్డాస్”
  • Thai: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Thai: “Esmeraldas”
  • Thai: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Thai: “ซานมาเตโอเดลัสเอสเมรัลดัส”
  • Thai: “เอสเมรัลดัส”
  • Turkish: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Turkish: “Esmeraldas”
  • Turkish: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Ukrainian: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Ukrainian: “Esmeraldas”
  • Ukrainian: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Ukrainian: “Есмеральдас”
  • Urdu: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Urdu: “Esmeraldas”
  • Urdu: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Urdu: “ایزمیراداس، ایکواڈور”
  • Vietnamese: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Vietnamese: “Esmeraldas”
  • Vietnamese: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Esmeraldas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad Esmeraldas”
  • Welsh: “Esmeraldas (Ecuador)”
  • Welsh: “Esmeraldas”
  • Welsh: “San Mateo de las Esmeraldas”
  • Western Panjabi: “Esmeraldas”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایسمیرالداس”
  • Wu Chinese: “埃斯梅拉达斯(厄瓜多尔)”

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