Guayaquil
Americannoun
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a seaport in western Ecuador, on the Gulf of Guayaquil.
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Gulf of Guyaquil, an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southwestern Ecuador.
noun
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Cuenca has a regional airport with flights to both cities, but I will typically pay $12 for a shuttle van to take me on a 3½-hour ride through the Andes mountains to the Guayaquil airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
And Guayaquil, known locally as the Pearl of the Pacific, is clearly a city on edge.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
Delgado grew up in Ecuador in the city of Guayaquil, the eldest of 10 children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Footage of his arrival in Guayaquil shows him wearing shorts, a T-shirt and flip flops while being led by armed security officers to a parked SUV before being transfered to the La Roca maximum-security prison.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
Santiago de Guayaquil was founded on St James’s day, the 25th of July 1535, by Sebastian de Benalcazar, but was twice abandoned before its permanent settlement in 1537 by Francesco de Orellana.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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