Guayaquil

The Guayaquil Canton, officially the Municipality of Guayaquil, is a canton in the center of the Guayas Province in western Ecuador. The canton was named after its seat, the city of Guayaquil, the most populous city in Ecuador. Political divisions The canton is divided into 16 urban parishes and 5 rural parishes. The urban parishes make up the city of Guayaquil. Urban parishes Ayacucho Bolivar (Sagario) Carbo (Concepcion) Chongón Febres Cordero Garcia Moreno Letamendi Nueva de Octubre Olmedo (San Alejo) Pascuales Roca Rocafuerte Sucre Tarqui Urdaneta Ximena Rural parishes Juan Gomez Rendon (Progreso) Morro Posorja Puná Tenguel Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: Mestizo 70.8% White 11.4% Afro-Ecuadorian 10.9% Montubio 5.0% Indigenous 1.4% Other 0.6%