Guano
Guano is a mountain town of about 9,000 people in Chimborazo Province in Ecuador. The scenic town lies at the foot of the El Altar volcano.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 12,700 residents
- Description: place in Chimborazo Province, Ecuador
- Also known as: “Guano, Ecuador”
Guano
- Categories: human settlement, parish of Ecuador, and locality
- Location: Guano, Guano Canton, Chimborazo Province, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-1.6078° or 1° 36′ 28″ southLongitude
-78.6448° or 78° 38′ 41″ westPopulation
12,700Elevation
2,763 metres (9,065 feet)United Nations Location Code
EC GNOOpen location code
67C399R4+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 249424138OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Guano” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Guano”
- Basque: “Guano (Ekuador)”
- Basque: “Guano”
- Cebuano: “Guano”
- Dutch: “Guano”
- Esperanto: “Guano”
- French: “Guano”
- German: “Guano”
- Indonesian: “Guano, Ekuador”
- Irish: “Guano”
- Italian: “Guano (Ecuador)”
- Italian: “Guano”
- Persian: “گوانو، اکوادور”
- Polish: “Guano (Ekwador)”
- Polish: “Guano”
- Quechua: “La Matriz kitilli”
- Quechua: “Wanu (Chimpurasu)”
- Quechua: “Wanu kitilli”
- Quechua: “Wanu”
- Spanish: “La Matriz”
- Swedish: “Guano”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Guano”. Photo: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0.