Montecristi
Montecristi is a town in the Manabí province of Ecuador and the capital of Montecristi Canton. Montecristi was formed during the first years of the Spanish conquest, possibly between 1536 and 1537, with settlers from Manta who left their village fleeing pirate attacks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Fernando Locatelli, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 18,400 residents
- Description: Ecuador
- Also known as: “Monte Cristi”, “Monte Cristi (Ecuador)”, and “Montecristi, Ecuador”
Montecristi
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Montecristi, Montecristi Canton, Manabí, Coastal Lowlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-1.0504° or 1° 3′ 2″ southLongitude
-80.6607° or 80° 39′ 39″ westPopulation
18,400Elevation
135 metres (443 feet)United Nations Location Code
EC MTCOpen location code
66CXW8XQ+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 249596849OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Swedish—“Montecristi” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Albanian: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Albanian: “Montecristi”
- Arabic: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Arabic: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Arabic: “Montecristi”
- Asturian: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Asturian: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Asturian: “Montecristi”
- Basque: “Montecristi (Ekuador)”
- Basque: “Montecristi”
- Catalan: “Montecristi (Equador)”
- Catalan: “Montecristi, Equador”
- Catalan: “Montecristi”
- Cebuano: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Cebuano: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Cebuano: “Montecristi”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Montecristi”
- Chinese: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Chinese: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Chinese: “Montecristi”
- Chinese: “蒙特克里斯蒂 (厄瓜多)”
- Chinese: “蒙特克里斯蒂 (厄瓜多爾)”
- Chinese: “蒙特克里斯蒂”
- Danish: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Danish: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Danish: “Montecristi”
- Dutch: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Dutch: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Dutch: “Montecristi”
- French: “Montecristi (Équateur)”
- French: “Montecristi, Équateur”
- French: “Montecristi”
- Galician: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Galician: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Galician: “Montecristi”
- German: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- German: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- German: “Montecristi”
- Irish: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Irish: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Irish: “Montecristi”
- Italian: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Italian: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Italian: “Montecristi”
- Lithuanian: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Lithuanian: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Lithuanian: “Montecristi”
- Lithuanian: “Montekristis”
- Polish: “Montecristi (Ekwador)”
- Polish: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Polish: “Montecristi”
- Portuguese: “Montecristi (Equador)”
- Portuguese: “Montecristi, Equador”
- Portuguese: “Montecristi”
- Quechua: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Quechua: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Quechua: “Montecristi”
- Russian: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Russian: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Russian: “Montecristi”
- Russian: “Монтекристи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Montecristi (Ekvador)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Montecristi”
- Spanish: “Montecristi”
- Swedish: “Montecristi (Ecuador)”
- Swedish: “Montecristi, Ecuador”
- Swedish: “Montecristi”
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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 Wikipedia page “Montecristi”. Photo: Fernando Locatelli, CC BY 3.0.