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Portoviejo
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Portoviejo (), also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo, is a city in Ecuador, and the capital of the Province of Manabí, located about from the Pacific coast. It is still known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" due to the former Tamarind plantations in the area.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1535 establishments in the Spanish Empire, People from Portoviejo Canton and Populated places established in 1535.
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Key facts
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- Portoviejo
- Settlement.official_name
- San Gregorio de Portoviejo
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- City
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- City
- Settlement.motto
- Spanish: Portoviejo se Levanta Querer es Poder (English: ''Portoviejo rises, When there's a will there's a way'')
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- Collage Portoviejo.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- From top, left to right: Vicente Amador Flor Central Park, Metropolitan Cathedral of Jesus the Good Shepherd, Eloy Alfaro monument, Olmedo street, Manabi Agriculture monument, Portoviejo Botanical Garden and Manabi Technical University.
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- Flag of Portoviejo.svg
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- Ecuador
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Manabí
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Canton
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Portoviejo
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- Urban parishes
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- List of parishes
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- 12 de Marzo
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
GAD Municipal de Portoviejo
Sitio web oficial del Gobierno Autónomo Descentralizado Municipal del cantón Portoviejo: servicios en línea, noticias, transparencia y trámites ciudadanos.
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- San Gregorio de Portoviejo
- Demonym
- Portovejense
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Portoviejo Canton
- Continent
- Americas
- Population
- 244129
- Area
- 47.17
- Elevation
- 53
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Capital of
- Portoviejo Canton
- Official website
- www.portoviejo.gob.ec
- Image
- Collage Portoviejo.png
- Dialing code
- 593 5
- Patron saint
- Virgin of Mercy
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- topic's main category
- Category:Portoviejo
- Commons gallery
- Portoviejo
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Portoviejo
- Commons category
- Portoviejo
- twinned administrative body
- Barakaldo
- inception
- 1535-03-12
- postal code
- EC130150
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Portoviejo
- member of
- Creative Cities Network
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Gastronomy
- Points of interest
- Education
- Transportation
- Geography
- Climate
- Notable people
- Twin cities
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Portoviejo (), also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo, is a city in Ecuador, and the capital of the Province of Manabí, located about from the Pacific coast. It is still known as the city of the "Royal Tamarind Trees" due to the former Tamarind plantations in the area.
It serves as the main political and economical centre of the Portoviejo River valley, which also includes the cantons of Santa Ana and Rocafuerte, where about are cultivated every year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portoviejo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
3 mapped locations