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Esmeraldas

city in Ecuador, capital of the Esmeraldas Province
City city Q149955

Facts

20 properties
Instance of
city
Inception
September 21, 1526[14]
Founder
Bartolomé Ruiz[4]
Country
Ecuador[3]
Official website
www.esmeraldas.gob.ec[15]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 0.950°, -79.667°
Capital of
Esmeraldas Province, Esmeraldas Canton[19][20]
Area
+28.48[25]
Demonym
Esmeraldeño/a[22]
Different from
Esmeraldas[23]
Elevation above sea level
+15[24]
Flag
flag of Esmeraldas Canton[5]
Local dialing code
593 6[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Esmeraldas Province[2]
Office held by head of government
mayor[18]
Official name
Esmeraldas[21]
P14541
33MOHW[26]
Population
+154035, +155487[16][17]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 154,035 · 155,487 GeoNames 218,727 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
EC080150[12]
Twinned administrative body
Santiago de Cuba, Montevideo, San Sebastián, Benidorm, Alicante, Puerto Cabezas[6][7][8][9][10][11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Esmeraldas (Ecuador) en San Mateo de las Esmeraldas en Esmeraldas, Ecuador en Esmeraldas ar Esmeraldas ar إسمرالداس ar Esmeraldas (Ecuador) ar San Mateo de las Esmeraldas ar Esmeraldas, Ecuador cs Esmeraldas, Ekvádor cs Esmeraldas (Ekvádor) cs San Mateo de las Esmeraldas da Esmeraldas (Ecuador) da San Mateo de las Esmeraldas da Esmeraldas, Ecuador de San Mateo de las Esmeraldas de Esmeraldas, Ecuador de Esmeraldas (Ecuador) el Esmeraldas el Εσμεράλντας
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
157559114
Library of Congress authority ID
nr96020187
GND ID
4392450-5, 4085611-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Norte de Esmeraldas.JPG ↗
BBC Things ID
01de5061-5691-4d20-bbf1-9172aaef1d96
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--86635
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
539581
FAST ID
1276599
Freebase ID
/m/06bnl6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-927023
GeoNames ID
3657990
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Esmeraldas
Show all 25 identifiers +13
Lex ID
Esmeraldas
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007540560705171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3898660
OpenStreetMap node ID
249423578
Quora topic ID
Esmeraldas-Ecuador
SNARC ID
Maya calendar
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1207086
Topic's main category
Category:Esmeraldas, Ecuador
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10037977
UN/LOCODE
ECESM
Who's on First ID
421201283
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJfCBxxC3HcYBpwQf778md
Yale LUX ID
place/3b37d209-a774-48b6-a46f-6519dd535b71

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🔗 Connections
People born here 93
Piero Hincapié, Pervis Estupiñán, Iván Hurtado, Alexánder Domínguez, Carlos Tenorio, Robert0 Arboleda, Ayrton Preciado, Frickson Erazo +85 more
Twinned administrative body 6
Montevideo, San Sebastián, Alicante, Santiago de Cuba, Benidorm, Puerto Cabezas
← Twinned administrative body 6
Montevideo, San Sebastián, Alicante, Santiago de Cuba, Benidorm, Puerto Cabezas
Residents 5
Jorge Guagua, Óscar Bagüí, Pedro Quiñónez, Osbaldo Lastra, Geovanny Nazareno
People who died here 3
Jonathan David González Valencia, Édison Realpe, Guillermo Ayoví Erazo
Capital of 2
Esmeraldas Province, Esmeraldas Canton
← Capital 2
Esmeraldas Province, Esmeraldas Canton
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Category:Births in Esmeraldas (Ecuador)
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Esmeraldas (Ecuador)
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Contained subdivisions 1
Universidad Luis Vargas Torres
Country 1
Ecuador
Different from 1
Esmeraldas
Founder 1
Bartolomé Ruiz
Instance of 1
city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Esmeraldas Province
Located in time zone 1
UTC−05:00
Office held by head of government 1
mayor
SNARC ID 1
Maya calendar
Topic's main category 1
Category:Esmeraldas, Ecuador
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Esmeraldas, Ecuador
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Esmeraldas Canton
← Headquarters location 1
Apostolic Vicariate of Esmeraldas
← Place served by transport hub 1
Colonel Carlos Concha Torres Airport
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Summary

Esmeraldas is a city[1].

Related Entities

Alexánder Domínguez Benidorm Carlos Tenorio city Ecuador Iván Hurtado San Sebastián Santiago de Cuba Universidad Luis Vargas Torres

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . esmeraldas.gob.ec. esmeraldas.gob.ec. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . app.powerbi.com. app.powerbi.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . compraspublicas.gob.ec. compraspublicas.gob.ec. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-10-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID → geografico/1207086
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID: geografico/1207086"
  2. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43894|batch #43894]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 16w ago · Plánovací kalendář · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Norte de Esmeraldas.JPG
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: Norte de Esmeraldas.JPG, Import image (P18) from Wikipedia infobox (template harvest)"
  4. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Founder → Bartolomé Ruiz
    Bbc things id → —
    Capital of → —
    Founded by → —
    + 93 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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