Esmeraldas, Ecuador (ecu)

Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Esmeraldas, Ecuador ranks 781st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tuzla, Miyazaki Prefecture, and Pécs. Memorable people born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador include Enner Valencia, Iván Hurtado, and Carlos Tenorio. Esmeraldas, Ecuador has been the birth place of many soccer players, and athletes. Esmeraldas, Ecuador is located in Ecuador.

Esmeraldas is a coastal city in northwestern Ecuador. It is the seat of the Esmeraldas Canton and capital of the Esmeraldas Province. It has an international sea port and a small airport. Esmeraldas is the major seaport of northwestern Ecuador, and it lies on the Pacific coast at the mouth of the Esmeraldas River. It is the antipodes of Padang, Indonesia. The city is the principal trading hub for the region's agricultural and lumber resources, and is the terminus of the 313-mile (504-km) Trans-Ecuadorian Pipeline from the oil fields in northeastern Ecuador. Read more on Wikipedia