Naranjal

Naranjal, additionally referred to as San José de Naranjal, is an Ecuadorian city; cantonal head of the Canton Naranjal, belonging to the Province of Guayas. It is positioned to the south of the coastal region of Ecuador, placed in an intensive plain, between the Chacaycu and Bucay rivers, at an altitude of 25 meters above sea degree and with a tropical rainy weather of 26 ° C on common.

Naranjal had a completely restricted improvement at some point of the colony, however due to its area, characterized by using the strategic value it represented for communications among the Coast and the Sierra, in times of independence it desired in a totally sizeable manner contacts with Guayaquil. It was one of the first cities that joined the revolution of October 9, 1820. Then, on the 15th of the equal month, independence became proclaimed on this canton beneath the participation of Jose Maria Andrade, Mariano Unda, Jeronimo Santa Cruz and Manuel Bernardo Enderica. When the Republic of Ecuador become created, it was the rural parish of the Guayaquil canton. Starting in 1950, agriculture changed into promoted, mainly bananas.