Sasaa03 / Mapillary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gualaceo
Sign in to saveGualaceo, nicknamed “El Jardin del Azuay” (The Garden of Azuay), is a city in the Azuay Province of Ecuador and the capital of the eponymous Gualaceo Canton. It is located 35 km east from the city of Cuenca and is one of the biggest cities in Azuay.
In the Vinony graph
The entry is geolocated on the map in A, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Gualaceo is referenced by 15 other articles, and connects out to Gualaceo Canton, Ecuador and list of sovereign states.
It is catalogued under topics including 1534 establishments in the Spanish Empire, Populated places established in 1534 and Populated places in Azuay Province.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Weather now
cached 2206h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Gualaceo
- Region
- Azuay
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 17,122
- Timezone
- America/Guayaquil
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Official website
GAD GUALACEO – GAD GUALACEO
gualaceo.gob.ec →Link to the official site · 2,706 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Santiago de Gualaceo
- Demonym
- gualaceño
- Country
- Ecuador
- Located in
- Azuay Province
- Population
- 13843
- Area
- 6.62
- Elevation
- 2235
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Capital of
- Gualaceo Canton
- Founded by
- Sebastián de Belalcázar
- Official website
- www.gualaceo.gob.ec
- Image
- Parque Cental de Gualaceo.JPG
- Dialing code
- 593 7
- Patron saint
- St. James the Elder
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Gualaceo
- inception
- 1534-04-00
- office held by head of government
- mayor
- postal code
- EC010350
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-inca period
- Conquest of Gualaceo
- Virreinal period
- Climate
- References
Gualaceo, nicknamed “El Jardin del Azuay” (The Garden of Azuay), is a city in the Azuay Province of Ecuador and the capital of the eponymous Gualaceo Canton. It is located 35 km east from the city of Cuenca and is one of the biggest cities in Azuay.
Gualaceo is located in the Sierra Region of Ecuador, nestled in the Santa Bárbara valley in the Hoya de Paute, at an altitude of 2,330 meters above sea level. and an Andean valley climate of 17 degrees average. It is crossed by four rivers that are part of the Santiago hydrographic demarcation: San Francisco, Santa Bárbara, Guaymincay and San José. It is nicknamed "Jardín del Azuay" for its natural landscapes and the diversity of flora.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gualaceo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (4)
On the map
2 mapped locations