Machala
Machala is one of the largest cities in Ecuador and is a part of the Coastal Lowlands of Ecuador. Machala is known as the 'banana capital of the world' because of its central role in exporting Ecuador's bananas.
- Type: City with 289,000 residents
- Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the El Oro Province
- Also known as: “San Antonio de Machala” and “सान अंतोनियो दे माचाला”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio 9 de Mayo.
Machala
- Category: locality
- Location: Machala, Machala Canton, El Oro, Coastal Lowlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-3.2589° or 3° 15′ 32″ south
Longitude
-79.9589° or 79° 57′ 32″ west
Population
289,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
MCH
UN/LOCODE
EC MCH
Open location code
6782P2RR+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Machala” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማቻላ”
- Arabic: “ماتشالا”
- Asturian: “Machala”
- Azerbaijani: “Machala”
- Basque: “Machala”
- Belarusian: “Мачала”
- Bengali: “মাচালা”
- Bengali: “ম্যাকহালা”
- Catalan: “Machala”
- Cebuano: “Machala”
- Central Kurdish: “ماچالا”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Machala”
- Chinese: “馬查拉”
- Chinese: “马查拉”
- Chuvash: “Мачала”
- Croatian: “Machala”
- Czech: “Machala”
- Danish: “Machala”
- Dutch: “Machala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتشالا”
- Esperanto: “Maĉala”
- Esperanto: “Maĉalo”
- Finnish: “Machala”
- French: “Machala”
- Galician: “Machala”
- Georgian: “მაჩალა”
- German: “Machala”
- Greek: “Ματσάλα”
- Gujarati: “મચાલા”
- Hausa: “Machala”
- Hebrew: “מצ’אלה”
- Hebrew: “מצאלה”
- Hindi: “मचला”
- Hindi: “माचाला”
- Indonesian: “Machala”
- Italian: “Machala”
- Japanese: “マチャラ”
- Javanese: “Machala”
- Kannada: “ಮಕಾಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Мачала”
- Kirghiz: “Мачала”
- Korean: “마찰라”
- Latvian: “Mačala”
- Lithuanian: “Mačala”
- Malay: “Machala”
- Marathi: “माचाला”
- Moksha: “Мачала”
- Nauru: “Machala”
- Northern Frisian: “Machala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Machala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Machala”
- Oromo: “Machala”
- Panjabi: “ਮਚਾਲਾ”
- Persian: “ماچالا”
- Polish: “Machala”
- Portuguese: “Machala”
- Pushto: “مچھالا”
- Quechua: “Machala”
- Romanian: “Machala”
- Russian: “Мачала”
- Serbian: “Маћала”
- Serbian: “Мачала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Machala”
- Sinhala: “මචාලා, ඉක්වදෝරය”
- Sinhala: “මචාලා”
- Slovak: “Machala”
- Slovenian: “Machala”
- Somali: “Machala”
- Spanish: “Machala”
- Swahili: “Machala”
- Swedish: “Machala”
- Tajik: “Мачала”
- Tamil: “மசாலா”
- Tatar: “Machala”
- Tatar: “Мачая”
- Telugu: “మచాల”
- Thai: “มาชาลา”
- Turkish: “Machala”
- Ukrainian: “Мачала”
- Urdu: “ماچالا”
- Uzbek: “Machala”
- Vietnamese: “Machala”
- Volapük: “Machala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Machala”
- Western Panjabi: “مچالا”
- Wu Chinese: “马查拉”
- “Machala”
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