Guayaquil

Guayaquil is the largest city in . This article also covers Durán, which is a UNESCO Creative City on the other side of the river.
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  • Type: City with 3,500,000 residents
  • Description: city of Ecuador
  • Also known as: “GYE” and “Santiago de Guayaquil”
Photo: Michel3ro, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Modelo Alberto Spencer Herrera and Archdiocese of Guayaquil.

Stadium
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Estadio Modelo Alberto Spencer, also known as just Estadio Modelo, is a multi-purpose stadium in Guayaquil, . It is currently used mostly for association football matches and it sometimes hosts games of Rocafuerte Fútbol Club, Club 9 de Octubre, Club Sport Patria, Club Deportivo Everest, Calvi Fútbol Club, Panamá Sporting Club and Club Sport Norteamérica.

Church
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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan is an archdiocese located in the city of Guayaquil in .

Museum
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The is a museum in Guayaquil, which houses a collection of archaeological artifacts, including pottery and figurines made by the original settlers of Ecuador.

Guayaquil

Latitude
-2.1901° or 2° 11′ 24″ south
Longitude
-79.8869° or 79° 53′ 13″ west
Population
3,500,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
GYE
Open location code
6792R457+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249424015
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3657509
Wiki­data ID
Q43509
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Guayaquil” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guayaquil”
  • Afrikaans: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Albanian: “Guayaquil”
  • Arabic: “Guayaquil”
  • Arabic: “GYE”
  • Arabic: “جواياكيول”
  • Arabic: “سانتياغو دي غواياكيول”
  • Arabic: “غواياكيل”
  • Arabic: “غواياكيول”
  • Aragonese: “Guayaquil”
  • Aragonese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Armenian: “Guayaquil”
  • Armenian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Armenian: “Գուայակիլ”
  • Asturian: “Guayaquil”
  • Asturian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Aymara: “Wayakil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quayakil”
  • Balinese: “Guayaquil”
  • Basque: “Guayaquil”
  • Belarusian: “Guayaquil”
  • Belarusian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Belarusian: “Гуаякіль”
  • Belarusian: “Ґуаякіль”
  • Bengali: “Guayaquil”
  • Bengali: “GYE”
  • Bengali: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াইয়াকিল”
  • Bengali: “সান্তিয়াগো দে গুয়াইয়াকিল”
  • Bosnian: “Guayaquil”
  • Breton: “Guayaquil”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуаякил”
  • Catalan: “Guayaquil”
  • Catalan: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Cebuano: “Guayaquil (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Guayaquil”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوایاکیل”
  • Chechen: “Гуаякиль”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Guayaquil”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Chinese: “Guayaquil”
  • Chinese: “GYE”
  • Chinese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Chinese: “瓜亚基尔”
  • Chinese: “瓜亞基爾”
  • Chuvash: “Гуаякиль”
  • Croatian: “Guayaquil”
  • Croatian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Czech: “Guayaquil”
  • Danish: “Guayaquil”
  • Dutch: “Guayaquil”
  • Dutch: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جواياكيل”
  • Esperanto: “Guajakilo”
  • Esperanto: “Guayaquil”
  • Esperanto: “Gvajakilo”
  • Esperanto: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Estonian: “Guayaquil”
  • Estonian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Finnish: “Guayaquil”
  • Finnish: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • French: “Guayaquil”
  • French: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Galician: “Guayaquil”
  • Galician: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Georgian: “Guayaquil”
  • Georgian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Georgian: “გუაიაკილი”
  • German: “Guayaquil”
  • German: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Greek: “Guayaquil”
  • Greek: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Greek: “Γκουαγιακουίλ”
  • Greek: “Γκουάγιακουιλ”
  • Greek: “Γουαγιακίλ”
  • Gujarati: “Guayaquil”
  • Gujarati: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાયાક્વિલ”
  • Hausa: “Guayaquil”
  • Hebrew: “Guayaquil”
  • Hebrew: “GYE”
  • Hebrew: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Hebrew: “גואיאקיל”
  • Hebrew: “גואיקיל”
  • Hebrew: “גוויאקיל”
  • Hebrew: “ואיאקיל”
  • Hindi: “GYE”
  • Hindi: “गुआयाकिल”
  • Hindi: “ग्वायाकिल”
  • Hindi: “सांतियागो दे ग्वायाकिल”
  • Hungarian: “Guayaquil”
  • Hungarian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Icelandic: “Guayaquil”
  • Icelandic: “Gvæjakíl”
  • Icelandic: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Ido: “Guayaquil”
  • Indonesian: “Guayaquil”
  • Indonesian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Interlingue: “Guayaquil”
  • Interlingue: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Irish: “Guayaquil”
  • Irish: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Italian: “Guayaquil”
  • Italian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Japanese: “Guayaquil”
  • Japanese: “GYE”
  • Japanese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Japanese: “グアヤキル”
  • Japanese: “サンティアゴ・デ・グアヤキル”
  • Kannada: “Guayaquil”
  • Kannada: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಕ್ವಿಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಯಾಕೀಲ್”
  • Korean: “Guayaquil”
  • Korean: “GYE”
  • Korean: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Korean: “과야킬”
  • Ladino: “Guayaquil”
  • Ladino: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Latin: “Guaiaquilum”
  • Latin: “Guayaquil”
  • Latin: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Latvian: “Guayaquil”
  • Latvian: “Gvajakila”
  • Latvian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Latvian: “Santjago de Gvajakila”
  • Lithuanian: “Guajakilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Guayaquil”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvajakilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Luxembourgish: “Guayaquil”
  • Macedonian: “Guayaquil”
  • Macedonian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Macedonian: “Гвајакил”
  • Malagasy: “Guayaquil”
  • Malagasy: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Malay: “Guayaquil”
  • Malay: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Maltese: “Guayaquil”
  • Maori: “Guayaquil”
  • Maori: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Marathi: “Guayaquil”
  • Marathi: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Marathi: “ग्वायाकिल”
  • Mingrelian: “გუაიაკილი”
  • Moksha: “Гуаякиль”
  • Mongolian: “Гуаякиль”
  • Nauru: “Guayaquil”
  • Nauru: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guayaquil”
  • Northern Sami: “Guayaquil”
  • Northern Sami: “Wayakil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guayaquil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guyaquil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guayaquil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Norwegian: “Guayaquil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guayaquil”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Ossetian: “Guayaquil”
  • Ossetian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Ossetian: “Гуаякиль”
  • Ossetian: “Сантьяго-де-Гуаякиль”
  • Panjabi: “Guayaquil”
  • Panjabi: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਇਆਕੀਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Guayaquil”
  • Papiamento: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Persian: “Guayaquil”
  • Persian: “GYE”
  • Persian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Persian: “گوایاکیل”
  • Persian: “گوایاکیول”
  • Polish: “Guayaquil”
  • Polish: “GYE”
  • Polish: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Portuguese: “Guaiaquil”
  • Portuguese: “Guayaquil”
  • Portuguese: “GYE”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Quechua: “Guayaquil”
  • Quechua: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Quechua: “Wayakil”
  • Romanian: “Guayaquil”
  • Romanian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Russian: “Гуаякиль”
  • Russian: “Сантьяго-де-Гуаякиль”
  • Scots: “Guayaquil”
  • Scots: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Guayaquil”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Serbian: “Guayaquil”
  • Serbian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Serbian: “Гвајакил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guayaquil”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gvajakil”
  • Silesian: “Guayaquil”
  • Silesian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Sinhala: “Guayaquil”
  • Sinhala: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Sinhala: “ගුආයාක්විල්, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “ගුආයාක්විල්”
  • Slovak: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Slovenian: “Guayaquil”
  • Slovenian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Guayaquil”
  • Spanish: “Guayaquil, Ecuador”
  • Spanish: “Guayaquil”
  • Spanish: “GYE”
  • Spanish: “Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Spanish: “Perla del Pacífico”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Swahili: “Guayaquil”
  • Swahili: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Swedish: “Guayaquil”
  • Swedish: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Tahitian: “Guayaquil”
  • Tajik: “Гуаякил”
  • Tamil: “உவயாகில்”
  • Tatar: “Гваякил”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాయాక్విల్”
  • Thai: “Guayaquil”
  • Thai: “GYE”
  • Thai: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Thai: “กวายากิล”
  • Thai: “กัวยากิล”
  • Turkish: “Guayaquil”
  • Turkish: “GYE”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуаякіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуаякіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантьяго-де-Гуаякіль”
  • Urdu: “گوایاکل”
  • Urdu: “گویاکیل”
  • Uzbek: “Guayakil”
  • Uzbek: “Guayaquil”
  • Uzbek: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Venetian: “Guayaquil”
  • Veps: “Guajakil‘”
  • Veps: “Guajakil’”
  • Veps: “Guajakil”
  • Veps: “Guayaquil”
  • Veps: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Vietnamese: “Guayaquil”
  • Vietnamese: “GYE”
  • Vietnamese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Volapük: “Guayaquil”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guayaquil”
  • Welsh: “Guayaquil”
  • Western Armenian: “Guayaquil”
  • Western Armenian: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Western Armenian: “Կուայաքիլ”
  • Western Panjabi: “Guayaquil”
  • Western Panjabi: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوآیاکوئل”
  • Wu Chinese: “Guayaquil”
  • Wu Chinese: “GYE”
  • Wu Chinese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜亚基尔”
  • Xhosa: “e-Guayaquil”
  • Yiddish: “גואייאקיל”
  • Yoruba: “Guayaquil”
  • Yue Chinese: “Guayaquil”
  • Yue Chinese: “GYE”
  • Yue Chinese: “Santiago de Guayaquil”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓜亞基爾”
  • “Guayaquil”
  • “Santiago de Guayaquil”

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