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Also known as San Gregorio de Portoviejo

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.

Key facts

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Portoviejo
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San Gregorio de Portoviejo
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City
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City
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Spanish: Portoviejo se Levanta Querer es Poder (English: ''Portoviejo rises, When there's a will there's a way'')
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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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Ecuador
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Country
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Manabí
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Canton
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Portoviejo
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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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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • 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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