Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton. The city is located on the west bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil.
Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean ; to the east by Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos and Bolívar; and to the south by El Oro and the Pacific Ocean.
Machala is a city in south-west Ecuador. It is the capital of the El Oro Province, and is located near the Gulf of Guayaquil on fertile lowlands. Machala has a population of 288,072 ; it is the sixth-biggest city in the country, and the second-most important port. It has been referred to as the Banana Capital of the World.
The Central University of Ecuador is a national university located in Quito, Ecuador. It is the oldest and largest university in the country, and one of the oldest universities in the Americas. The enrollment at the university is over 10,000 students per year.
Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UEES) is a non-profit private university in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Its campus is in Samborondón, Greater Guayaquil. One distinctive program of UEES is the College of International Studies, home to the International Careers Program (ICP), which offers courses entirely in English, the School of Translation and Interpretation, the School of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, and the Center for International Education.
The Politecnica Salesiana University in Ecuador is an institution of higher education and Christian inspiration with Catholic character and a Salesian. The university is characterized by its opportunities for youth, especially from the poor sectors.
The National University of Misiones is a public university in Argentina. It has a publishing house and a radio station, LRH301 FM Universidad Nacional de Misiones, that streams in Ogg Vorbis format.
The University of San Andrés is a private university located in Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina on the shores of the Rio de la Plata, in the metropolitan area of Greater Buenos Aires. It is a small institution, with approximately 900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students.
Puebloviejo Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Los Ríos Province. Its capital is the town of Puebloviejo. Its population at the 2001 census was 29,420.
BAE Abdón Calderón is a naval ship of Ecuador, built in 1885 and preserved as a museum ship at Guayaquil.
Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, UCSG, is a private, catholic, higher education center, along with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Ecuador.
The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) is a public university located in Guayaquil, Guayas Province in Ecuador. ESPOL has five faculties or schools, fifteen research centers, and several associated centers providing twenty-six undergraduate and ten master's degrees.
The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) is a Pontifical Catholic university founded in 1946 in Quito, Ecuador.
The State University Santa Elena Peninsula is a public university located in the canton freedom of the province of Santa Elena in the Republic of Ecuador, is the first autonomous center of teaching and which has the largest student population in the area.
Monserratt Bustamante Chán is an Ecuadorian professor and academic. In 2017 she ran as a candidate for Vice President of Ecuador alongside presidential candidate Paco Moncayo, in alliance with Izquierda Democrática, Centro Democrático Nacional and Acuerdo Nacional por el Cambio.
The International University of La Rioja (UNIR) is a private open university in Spain focused on online education, based in Logroño, La Rioja. Also has presence in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. In December 2019, the institution had more than 45,000 distance learning external students, 12,000 of them overseas students. UNIR offers 37 university degrees, more than 80 master's degrees, 77 proprietary degrees, 16 advanced studies, and 3 doctoral programmes. The university is composed of six departments. It also has an Official Language School and a School of Doctoral programmes.
The Armed Forces University – ESPE, which can also be translated as Polytechnical School of the Army, formerly called "Escuela Politécnica del Ejército" is a higher education university in Sangolquí, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. Established on June 16, 1922, it originated from the Escuela de Oficiales Ingenieros, created by the Ecuadorian President José Luis Tamayo.
Ezequiel González Mas was a Spanish historian of Spanish literature, a cervantista, poet, art critic and writer.
Zaida Rovira was an Ecuadorian Ombudsman and Minister of Economic and Social Inclusion in Ecuador from November 2023.
Mónica Rosa Irene Palencia Núñez is a lawyer who was born in Mexico and she emigrated as an adult to Ecuador. She became the Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior and a citizen of Ecuador in 2023.
