Guayaquil Department
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| Guayaquil Department | |||||||||||
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| Capital | Guayaquil | ||||||||||
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• Established | June 25, 1822 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Ecuador Peru (parts of it) | ||||||||||
Guayaquil Department was one of the departments of Gran Colombia created in 1824 in 1830.[clarification needed]
It bordered the Ecuador Department in the east, the Azuay Department in the South, and the Pacific Ocean in the West.
Subdivisions
The department had two provinces and nine cantons: Guayaquil Province (capital Guayaquil) with cantons Guayaquil, Daule, Babahoyo, Baba, Punta de Santa Elena and Machala; and Manabí Province (capital Portoviejo). with cantons Portoviejo, Jipijapa, and Montecristi.