Provinces of Ecuador






Provinces of Ecuador






























Ecuador
Coat of arms of Ecuador.svg

This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Ecuador
















Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador portal


  • Other countries

  • Atlas




Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular – provincia). The provinces of Ecuador and their capitals are:

























































































































































































Map key
Province
Capital
Population (2010)
Area (km²)
1

Azuay

Cuenca
712,127
8,309.58
2

Bolívar

Guaranda
183,641
3,945.38
3

Cañar

Azogues
225,184
3,146.08
4

Carchi

Tulcán
164,524
3,780.45
5

Chimborazo

Riobamba
458,581
6,499.72
6

Cotopaxi

Latacunga
409,205
6,108.23
7

El Oro

Machala
600,659
5,766.68
8

Esmeraldas

Esmeraldas
534,092
16,132.23
9

Galápagos

Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
25,124
8,010.00
10

Guayas

Guayaquil
3,645,483
15,430.40
11

Imbabura

Ibarra
398,244
4,587.51
12

Loja

Loja
448,966
11,062.73
13

Los Ríos

Babahoyo
778,115
7,205.27
14

Manabí

Portoviejo
1,369,780
18,939.60
15

Morona Santiago

Macas
147,940
25,690.50
16

Napo

Tena
103,697
12,542.50
17

Orellana

Puerto Francisco de Orellana
136,396
21,692.10
18

Pastaza

Puyo
83,933
29,641.37
19

Pichincha

Quito
2,576,287
9,535.91
20

Santa Elena

Santa Elena
308,693
3,690.17
21

Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Santo Domingo de los Colorados
368,013
3,446.65
22

Sucumbíos

Nueva Loja
176,472
18,084.42
23

Tungurahua

Ambato
504,583
3,386.25
24

Zamora-Chinchipe

Zamora
91,376
10,584.26
Total

Ecuador
Republic
14,483,499
283,561 square kilometres (109,484 sq mi)

1 Population as per the census carried out on 2010-11-28[1]


In addition, there are or were four areas that are non-delimited. These locations are:




  • Las Golondrinas: In a referendum held on April 3, 2016, 56.9% of voters voted in favor of Las Golondrinas being incorporated into the Imbabura Province.[2]


  • La Manga del Cura: In a referendum held on September 27, 2015, 64.2% of the voters voted in favor of La Manga del Cura being incorporated into the Manabí Province.[3]


  • El Piedrero (surrounded by Guayas and Cañar)


  • Matilde Esther (surrounded by Los Ríos, Guayas y Bolívar)



See also



  • Cantons of Ecuador


  • ISO 3166-2:EC, ISO 3166-2 for codes.


  • (in French) Leaders of Ecuador provinces



References





  1. ^ "Ecuador: Urban Places", https://www.citypopulation.de/php/ecuador,php, accessed 10 July 2017


  2. ^ "Las Golondrinas le pertenece a Imbabura" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 October 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ "La Manga del Cura decide pertenecer a Manabí" (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2015.




External links



  • "Provinces of Ecuador". Statoids.









Popular posts from this blog

Xamarin.iOS Cant Deploy on Iphone

Glorious Revolution

Dulmage-Mendelsohn matrix decomposition in Python