Guayas
First-level unit, Ecuador: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.
Inside Guayas
The 26 ADM2 units of Guayas.
People, area and density
Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.
4,334,305
24.2% of Ecuador.
4,416,337
+2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.
15,722 km²
276 people per km².
EC-G
Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.
1,806,174
people on land at or below 10 m, 41.7% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).
Guayas in humanitarian data
Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.
4,387,434
people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).
1.6%
of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).
162%
of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).
26 units inside Guayas
Each unit has its own page.
Boundary licences: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno | – | 27,316 | 36,043 | 219.7 | 124 | 0.6% | 14,260 |
| Balao | – | 26,863 | 29,870 | 410.61 | 65 | 0.6% | 6,163 |
| Balzar | – | 67,702 | 61,910 | 1,193.38 | 57 | 1.6% | 4 |
| Colimes | – | 33,449 | 33,095 | 762.06 | 44 | 0.8% | 240 |
| Crnel. Marcelino Maridueña | – | 14,707 | 13,773 | 255.49 | 58 | 0.3% | 0 |
| Daule | – | 158,926 | 282,302 | 468.38 | 339 | 3.7% | 142,226 |
| Duran | – | 415,625 | 440,802 | 301.6 | 1,378 | 9.7% | 304,447 |
| El Piedrero | – | 4,939 | 9,327 | 170.64 | 29 | 0.1% | 0 |
| El Triunfo | – | 60,130 | 57,056 | 397.1 | 151 | 1.4% | 0 |
| Empalme | – | 89,475 | 92,830 | 719.26 | 124 | 2.1% | 0 |
| Gnral. Antonio Elizalde | – | 8,949 | 12,972 | 153.53 | 58 | 0.2% | 0 |
| Guayaquil | – | 2,538,148 | 2,418,705 | 4,124.04 | 615 | 59.4% | 848,907 |
| Isidro Ayora | – | 16,817 | 20,145 | 490.06 | 34 | 0.4% | 37 |
| Lomas de Sargentillo | – | 21,594 | 23,769 | 67.07 | 322 | 0.5% | 1,389 |
| Milagro | – | 213,505 | 217,982 | 406.73 | 525 | 5% | 56,608 |
| Naranjal | – | 89,471 | 93,458 | 1,738.1 | 51 | 2.1% | 13,216 |
| Naranjito | – | 46,663 | 45,703 | 226.15 | 206 | 1.1% | 0 |
| Nobol | – | 22,298 | 24,170 | 137.37 | 162 | 0.5% | 17,822 |
| Palestina | – | 24,061 | 22,790 | 194.77 | 124 | 0.6% | 1,609 |
| Pedro Carbo | – | 53,136 | 55,069 | 940.05 | 57 | 1.2% | 0 |
| Playas | – | 49,305 | 49,335 | 269.98 | 183 | 1.2% | 25,655 |
| Salitre | – | 66,581 | 63,914 | 395.4 | 168 | 1.6% | 67,914 |
| Samborondon | – | 63,691 | 125,303 | 360.75 | 177 | 1.5% | 60,651 |
| San Jacinto de Yaguachi | – | 64,979 | 71,458 | 512.08 | 127 | 1.5% | 40,131 |
| Santa Lucia | – | 61,423 | 54,171 | 359.24 | 171 | 1.4% | 40,538 |
| Simon Bolivar | – | 34,534 | 30,713 | 293.23 | 118 | 0.8% | 0 |
Open exposure layers
Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.
- Urban areas
- None at this resolution
- বন্দর
- None at this resolution
- বিমানবন্দর
- None at this resolution
- Major roads
- None at this resolution
- রেলপথ
- None at this resolution
- Rivers and lakes
- None at this resolution
Risk values
Neighbouring units
- EC-OEl Oro
- EC-SE*Santa Elena
- EC-MManabi
- EC-AAzuay
- EC-FCañar
- EC-RLos Ríos
- EC-BBolívar
- EC-HChimborazo
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ECU ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2011
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ECU ADM2, source: INEC – Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, OCHA ROLAC, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- দেশ
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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