Esmeraldas is a city in Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton Esmeraldas and the capital of the province Esmeraldas. It has an international port and a small airport (IATA location identifier: ESM). Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ...
This province is one of the five that form the Coastal Region, It borders on the north with Colombia, on the south with the provinces of Manabi and Pichincha, on the east with Carchi and Imbabura, and on the west with the Pacific Ocean.
The city of Esmeraldas, capital of the province by the same name, and a Pacific port, is a main trade center for the agricultural, livestock and forestry produce of the region, trading in bananas, rubber, cocoa, wood and cattle.
The Esmeraldas River, located in northwest Ecuador and 80 km in length, is the main water collector of the region; it is a watercourse whose source is the confluence of innumerable small mountain streams, and two important Andean rivers, the Guayllabamba and the Blanco.
Esmeraldas, comprising 15,237 square kilometers and 428.902 inhabitants, is the northern coastal province bordering the Republic of Colombia.
The city of Esmeraldas with a population of 250.566 inhabitants is the provincial capital and home to 80% of Ecuador's fl population.
The bureaucracy and the state controlled petroleum industry account for 23% full-employment, while 70% of the population in the city of Esmeraldas is engaged in the informal and self-employed sector.
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