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Guayaquil
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Guayaquil travel guide

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Guayaquil is Ecuador's largest city and its port, hot and flat where Quito is cold and high. The Malecón along the river was rebuilt from 1999 into three kilometres of gardens and museums.

Four hundred and forty-four steps climb Las Peñas past painted houses to a lighthouse. Iguanas live loose in the cathedral square. Flights to the Galápagos leave from here, often more cheaply than from Quito.

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Top 10 sights in Guayaquil

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  1. 1© Alfredo Molina · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Guayaquil Metropolitan Cathedral

    The cathedral of Guayaquil, rebuilt in the 1930s and 1940s in concrete after fire destroyed the wooden original. It faces Seminario Park, where several hundred land iguanas live loose in the trees and on the paths.

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  2. 2© PhoenixTeam1 · CC BY 3.0

    Guayaquil Ecuador Temple

    A Latter-day Saints temple at Guayaquil in Ecuador. Ground was broken in August 1996 and it was dedicated in August 1999.

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  3. 3© Elemaki · CC BY 2.5

    Torre Morisca, Guayaquil

    A clock tower in Guayaquil in Ecuador, also called the Moorish tower. It has been rebuilt several times and the present structure was completed in 1931.

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  4. 4© Freddy eduardo · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo

    A museum on the Malecón 2000 riverside walk in Guayaquil in Ecuador. It opened on 30 July 2003 and covers Ecuadorian, Latin American and pre-Columbian art and culture.

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    Basilica La Merced

    A Catholic church in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It belongs to the archdiocese of Guayaquil and holds the rank of minor basilica.

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  6. 6© FundacionCNH · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Luis Adolfo Noboa Naranjo Museum

    An art museum at Guayaquil in Ecuador. It opened on 25 January 2006 and shows paintings by the contemporary Ecuadorian artists the businessman Luis Noboa Naranjo befriended.

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  7. 7© Freddy eduardo · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Presley Norton Museum

    An archaeological museum in Guayaquil in Ecuador. It holds eight thousand objects including pottery and figurines going back to 3000 BC, and occupies the house of the founder of the newspaper El Universo.

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  8. 8© Freddy eduardo · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Las Peñas

    An emblematic neighbourhood at the foot of Santa Ana hill in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This is where the city began, and the patrician houses built during the cocoa boom of the 1920s still stand.

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  9. 9© Freddy eduardo · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Parque Histórico de Guayaquil

    An eight-hectare park at Samborondon, Ecuador. Opened on 21 October 1999, it is divided into wildlife, traditional and urban-architecture zones, the last of them filled with houses moved here from the old city.

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  10. 10© Freddy eduardo · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Parque Centenario de Guayaquil

    A park in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where Avenida 9 de Octubre meets Calle 6 de Marzo. It is one of the city's best-known parks.

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