El Guabo Canton

The Guabo is a canton in the province of El Oro in Ecuador. Its capital is the city cantonal Guabo. Its population in the 2010 census was 50,009 inhabitants. The date of canton of El Guabo was September 7, 1978. The mayor for the period 2009-2014 was John Franco Aguilar.

Geographic Location
The Guabo is located in the north of the province of El Oro, has an area of 580.2 km2, at a distance of 18 km from Machala capital of the province. To the north the canton Orangery (Canton), south to the cantons Machala and Pasaje Canton, east to the Canton Ponce Enriquez and Pasaje Canton , and west by the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Guayaquil. The canton is located in the coastal region with a tropical humid climate, in which the most important crop is bananas for export.

Demographics
Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010:
 * Mestizo 82.3%
 * Afro-Ecuadorian 6.9%
 * White 6.0%
 * Montubio 4.0%
 * Indigenous 0.7%
 * Other 0.2%

History
It arises as a village between 1700 and 1750 in the rain forest of the south-west of the country and north of what is now the province gold, bounded by a river on the left bank doublets, covered by the leafy robust guaba that gave its name to become the end of 1920 in the small commercial river traffic point, in 1882 the manor liberal parish since 1978 illustrious canton in the open door of the late twentieth century. The time schedule takes us to the year 1977, which was for the progressive and then parish Guabo, the beginning of his "off" to what it meant for the life and soul of this always virile and fighter, achieving cantonización persevering quest for happily given at the beginning of September 7, 1978.

Political division
The Guabo is divided into five parishes: The Guabo (cantonal) Bourbons (Sucre) The Iberia Tendales (heads in Puerto Tendales) Rio Bonito Works of Mr. John Franco called: The Linear Park course is not a straight line.

Guabo Colleges

 * National Joint College Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
 * National Joint College Dr. Jose Miguel Garcia Moreno
 * College Night "The Guabo"
 * Latin American Private College
 * Mora Private College Quinonez
 * Ati II Private College Pillahuaso