Montecristi

Montecristi is a town within the Manabi province of Ecuador and the capital of Montecristi Canton. Montecristi turned into shaped at some stage in the primary years of the Spanish conquest, probably among 1536 and 1537, with settlers from Manta who left their village fleeing pirate attacks. many of the first settlers seems a person named "Criste", who could have constructed his residence on top of the mountain, so it's far believed that the area received the call of Montecriste, which later, for idiomatic ease, ended up being referred to as Montecristi. As of the 2010 census Montecristi had 70.292 population.

The metropolis is renowned for the production of Panama hats, the pleasant nice of which is called montecristi superfino after it. Montecristi is the birthplace of Eloy Alfaro Delgado, president of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911 and the leader of the Ecuadorian Liberal Revolution. because of this, Montecristi became decided on by using the Ecuadorian Constituent assembly in 2007 because the seat of covenants for the 2008 constitution of Ecuador.