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Machala

Machala

Machala is one of the largest cities in Ecuador and is a part of the of . Machala is known as the 'banana capital of the world' because of its central role in exporting Ecuador's bananas.
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  • Type: City with 289,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the El Oro Province
  • Also known as: “San Antonio de Machala”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio 9 de Mayo.

Stadium
Photo: Rosaelisil4, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Machala, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Audaz Octubrino, Fuerza Amarilla and Orense. The stadium holds 16,500 spectators and opened in 1939.

Machala

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
United Nations Location Code
EC MCH
Open location code
6782P2RR+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 760725882
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3654533
Wiki­data ID
Q215080
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Machala” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Machala”
  • Arabic: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Arabic: “ماتشالا”
  • Asturian: “Machala”
  • Basque: “Machala”
  • Belarusian: “Machala”
  • Belarusian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Belarusian: “Мачала”
  • Bengali: “Machala”
  • Bengali: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাকহালা”
  • Catalan: “Machala”
  • Catalan: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Cebuano: “Machala”
  • Cebuano: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماچالا”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Machala”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Chinese: “Machala”
  • Chinese: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Chinese: “馬查拉”
  • Chinese: “马查拉”
  • Chuvash: “Мачала”
  • Croatian: “Machala”
  • Croatian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Czech: “Machala”
  • Czech: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Danish: “Machala”
  • Danish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Dutch: “Machala”
  • Dutch: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “Machala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتشالا”
  • Esperanto: “Maĉala”
  • Esperanto: “Maĉalo”
  • Esperanto: “Machala”
  • Esperanto: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Finnish: “Machala”
  • Finnish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • French: “Machala”
  • French: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Galician: “Machala”
  • Galician: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Georgian: “Machala”
  • Georgian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Georgian: “მაჩალა”
  • German: “Machala”
  • German: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Greek: “Machala”
  • Greek: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Greek: “Ματσάλα”
  • Gujarati: “Machala”
  • Gujarati: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Gujarati: “મચાલા”
  • Hebrew: “Machala”
  • Hebrew: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Hebrew: “מצ’אלה”
  • Hebrew: “מצאלה”
  • Hindi: “Machala”
  • Hindi: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Hindi: “मचाला”
  • Indonesian: “Machala”
  • Indonesian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Irish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Italian: “Machala”
  • Italian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Japanese: “Machala”
  • Japanese: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Japanese: “マチャラ”
  • Kannada: “Machala”
  • Kannada: “ಮಕಾಲಾ”
  • Korean: “Machala”
  • Korean: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Korean: “마찰라”
  • Latvian: “Mačala”
  • Latvian: “Machala”
  • Latvian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Lithuanian: “Mačala”
  • Lithuanian: “Machala”
  • Lithuanian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Malay: “Machala”
  • Malay: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Marathi: “Machala”
  • Marathi: “माचाला”
  • Moksha: “Мачала”
  • Nauru: “Machala”
  • Nauru: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Northern Frisian: “Machala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Machala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Machala”
  • Persian: “Machala”
  • Persian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Persian: “ماچالا”
  • Polish: “Machala”
  • Polish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Portuguese: “Machala”
  • Portuguese: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Quechua: “Machala”
  • Quechua: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Romanian: “Machala”
  • Romanian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Russian: “Machala”
  • Russian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Russian: “Мачала”
  • Serbian: “Маћала”
  • Serbian: “Мачала”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Machala”
  • Sinhala: “Machala”
  • Sinhala: “මචාලා, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “මචාලා”
  • Slovak: “Machala”
  • Slovak: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Slovenian: “Machala”
  • Spanish: “Machala”
  • Spanish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Swedish: “Machala”
  • Swedish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Tamil: “Machala”
  • Tamil: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Tamil: “மசாலா”
  • Tatar: “Мачая”
  • Telugu: “Machala”
  • Telugu: “మచాల”
  • Thai: “Machala”
  • Thai: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Thai: “มาชาลา”
  • Turkish: “Machala”
  • Turkish: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Ukrainian: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Ukrainian: “Мачала”
  • Urdu: “Machala”
  • Urdu: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Urdu: “ماچالا”
  • Vietnamese: “Machala”
  • Vietnamese: “San Antonio de Machala”
  • Volapük: “Machala”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Machala”
  • Western Panjabi: “Machala”
  • Western Panjabi: “مچالا”
  • Wu Chinese: “马查拉”
  • “Machala”
  • “San Antonio de Machala”

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