Santa Elena Province

Santa Elena Province Provincia de Santa Elena
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Location in Ecuador
Basic data
Capital	Santa Elena
population	approx. 235,000
- Share in Ecuador
- Rank in Ecuador
- density	63 inhabitants per km²
surface	3,763 km²
- Share in Ecuador
- Rank in Ecuador
License Plate	Y
Set up	2007
prefect	Ana Treviño ( PAÍS )
Governor	Gino González
Seats in the National Congress
structure	3 cantons
ISO 3166-2	EC-SE
http://www.santaelena.gob.ec/

Santa Elena is a province of the Republic of Ecuador established on November 7, 2007 . It consists of three formerly the province of Guayas belonging cantons Santa Elena, Salinas and La Libertad. The new province has an oil refinery, an airport, a port and extensive tourist infrastructure, especially in the seaside resort of Salinas.

geography

The province of Santa Elena is located in the far west of Ecuador, centrally located in north-south direction, on the Santa Elena Peninsula , which protrudes from the Ecuadorian mainland into the Pacific Ocean and is climatically a continuation of the coastal desert in northwestern Peru. The climate is accordingly predominantly dry and hot.

The province borders in the south on the Gulf of Guayaquil , in the west on the open Pacific, in the north on the province of Manabí and in the east on the "mother province" Guayas.

politics

On March 1, 2007, President Correa signed a bill that merged the cantons of La Libertad, Santa Elena and Salinas into a new province of Santa Elena. The Prefect of Guayas, the Mayor of Guayaquils and large parts of the Provincial Council were against the spin-off of the new province, which was ratified by the National Congress on November 7, 2007 after long negotiations and sometimes violent strikes in the affected cantons . Until the election of a prefect, the province of Santa Elena was administered by a government committee made up of representatives of the cantons and the governor Ana Treviño appointed by the president. In elections on March 16, 2008, a prefect and the provincial parliament were elected. The previous governor Ana Treviño won the elections for the prefecture for Movimiento PAÍS . Gino González was named as her successor in the governorship in May.

Cantons

The province of Santa Elena consists of three cantons:

1. Santa Elena (established in 1839, capital: Santa Elena )
2. Salinas (established in 1937, previously part of Santa Elena, capital: Salinas )
3. La Libertad (established in 1993, previously part of the Salinas canton, capital: La Libertad )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ María Alejandra Torres, Provincialización de la Península, al Congreso ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Universo (Guayaquil), March 2, 2007, Hipólito Muñoz, Santa Elena es oficialmente provincia  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Universo, November 8, 2007, and Nuevos gobernadores de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas y de Santa Elena ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Mercurio de Manta, November 15, 2007 (Spanish)    
2. ↑ Call for selection  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Ecuadorian Supreme Electoral Court (Spanish).  
3. ↑ PAIS tiene ahora 2 prefectos ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Universo, March 18, 2008. 
4. ↑ Appointment decree (No. 1113) in the State Gazette ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 

Coordinates: 2 ° 10 ′  S , 80 ° 37 ′  W