Gulf of Guayaquil
| Gulf of Guayaquil | ||
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 Satellite image of the Gulf of Guayaquil |
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | South America | |
| Geographical location | 3 ° 2 ′ S , 80 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| width | 230 km | |
| Islands | Puná and 12 others | |
| Tributaries | Río Guayas , Río Jubones , Río Zarumilla , Río Tumbes , Río Taura , Río Cañar , Río Balao Grande , Río Arenillas | |
The Pacific Located Gulf of Guayaquil is the largest golf on the Ecuadorian coast. It was named after Guayaquil, the largest city on it . It stretches for 230 kilometers between Cabo Blanco in Peru and the Punta de Santa Elena headland in Salinas in Ecuador. The banks are flat and mostly swampy . There are 13 larger and smaller islands in the gulf, the largest of which is Puná with approx. 855 km² .
The rivers Río Guayas , Río Jubones , Río Zarumilla and Río Tumbes flow into the Gulf of Guayaquil . Around the Gulf is located on an area of 3300 square kilometers, the ecoregion Golfo de Guayaquil Tumbes- mangroves in which, among other things, pointed crocodiles , howler monkeys , Pacas , crab raccoon and Mexican otters and marble egrets , wood storks and horned screamers are native. The ecoregion is endangered , among other things, by shrimp farming .
Web links
- Terrestrial Ecoregions - Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves (NT1413) , National Geographic , Wildworld, Ecoregion Profile,
- Gulf of Guayaquil-Tumbes mangroves (NT1413) , WWF report