Provinces of Ecuador

Provinces of Ecuador

Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular – provincia). The provinces of Ecuador and their capitals are:

Map key	Province	Capital	Population1	Area (km²)
1	Azuay	Cuenca	712,127	8,309.58
2	Bolívar	Guaranda	183,641	3,945.38
3	Cañar	Azogues	225,184	3,146.08
4	Carchi	Tulcán	164,524	3,780.45
5	Chimborazo	Riobamba	458,581	6,499.72
6	Cotopaxi	Latacunga	409,205	6,108.23
7	El Oro	Machala	600,659	5,766.68
8	Esmeraldas	Esmeraldas	534,092	16,132.23
9	Galápagos	Puerto Baquerizo Moreno	25,124	8,010.00
10	Guayas	Guayaquil	3,645,483	15,430.40
11	Imbabura	Ibarra	398,244	4,587.51
12	Loja	Loja	448,966	11,062.73
13	Los Ríos	Babahoyo	778,115	7,205.27
14	Manabí	Portoviejo	1,369,780	18,939.60
15	Morona Santiago	Macas	147,940	24,059.40
16	Napo	Tena	103,697	12,542.50
17	Orellana	Puerto Francisco de Orellana	136,396	21,692.10
18	Pastaza	Puyo	83,933	29,641.37
19	Pichincha	Quito	2,576,287	9,535.91
20	Santa Elena	Santa Elena	308,693	3,690.17
21	Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas	Santo Domingo de los Colorados	368,013	3,446.65
22	Sucumbíos	Nueva Loja	176,472	18,084.42
23	Tungurahua	Ambato	504,583	3,386.25
24	Zamora-Chinchipe	Zamora	91,376	10,584.26

¹ Population as per the census carried out on 2011-11-28

In addition, there are three areas within Ecuador that are non-delimited. These locations are (relative positions in parentheses):

1. El Piedrero (surrounded by Guayas & Cañar)
2. Las Golondrinas (surrounded by Pichincha, Esmeraldas, & Imbabura)
3. Manga del Cura (surrounded by Manabi, Los Rios, Guayas, & Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas): In a popular referendum on 27 September 2015 64.2% of Manga del Cura voters voted to be incorporated in Manabí province.

See also

• Cantons of Ecuador
• ISO 3166-2:EC, ISO 3166-2 for codes.
• (French) Leaders of Ecuador provinces
• (Spanish) es:Manga del Cura
• (Spanish) Magna del Cura referendum of 2015

External links

• Provinces of Ecuador at statoids.com