Guayaquil

Guayaquil, officially Santiago de Guayaquil is the second biggest city in Ecuador, with 2,578,201 human beings in its metropolitan place. It is also the kingdom's main port. The town is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil canton. Guayaquil was based on July 25, 1538 with the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil Most Noble and Most Loyal City of Santiago of Guayaquil with the aid of Spanish conqueror Francisco de Orellana.

Even before it turned into founded by way of the Spaniards, it already existed as a local village. In 1687, Guayaquil changed into attacked and looted by using English and French pirates underneath the command of George d'Hout and Picard and Groniet. Of extra than 260 pirates, 35 died and 46 had been wounded; 75 defenders of the metropolis died and extra than one hundred have been wounded. In 1709, the English captains Woodes Rogers, Etienne Courtney, and William Dampier, at the side of a crew of one hundred ten, looted Guayaquil and demanded ransom; however, they all of sudden departed without amassing the ransom after an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.