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Sustainable Development & Conservation, Ecuador (1278 words) |
 | 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. |
| Unfortunately, the mentioned statistics establish that the Province of Esmeraldas, and the city of Esmeraldas in particular, evidences a rate of poverty comparable to the shantytowns in Brazil and India. |
| Esmeraldas - What's New - Ecuador (1325 words) |
| Esmeraldas is called "the green province", due to its exuberant vegetation whose deep green hues remind one of the gemstone by the same name (the emerald). |
| 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 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. |
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