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During the Colonial time the vicinity of the area was used for livestock. With the creation of the park the area has become popular for hiking, climbing, camping, fishing, and birdwatching. Control points are located at the road entries to the park. The park has a refuge hut and can be reached from Cuenca and Guayaquil.
The mangroves are found between Ecuador and Peru where many rivers empty into the Pacific and the Gulf of Guayaquil. They fringe the Gulf of Guayaquil and the northwestern Pacific Coast of Peru near Tumbes. They cover an area of 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2). [1]
It belongs to the company Holcim Ecuador and is administered by the foundation Fundación Pro-Bosque. It can be visited. It can be visited. More than 200 species of birds, [ 1 ] more than 50 species of mammals (more than twenty of them bats), more than 10 species of reptiles and 10 species of amphibians can be seen, along with a variety of ...
This is a list of national parks in Ecuador. National parks. There are 11 national parks: [1] Name Photo Location Area Established Cayambe-Coca:
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Guayaquil (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaʝaˈkil] ⓘ), officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest city in Ecuador and also the nation's economic capital and main port. The city is the capital of Guayas Province and the seat of Guayaquil Canton .
The Guayaquil flooded grasslands adjoin the Western Ecuador moist forests ecoregion to the west and north, and a section of the Ecuadorian dry forests ecoregion to the east. To the southeast they merge into the South American Pacific mangroves ecoregion. The extreme south adjoins the Tumbes–Piura dry forests. [2]
The Galápagos Archipelago is one of the largest scientific and tourist attractions of Ecuador; undoubtedly, it is the most known and famous attraction of the country. Currently, the number of visitors to the Galápagos reaches about 200 000 tourists per year.