GUAYAQUIL

(2° 10’ 8.; 79° 58’ W.), City; chief port, Ecuador, 8. America; ‘built mainly of wood. Among principal structures are government buildings, town hall, cathedral, bp.’s palace, univ. G. exports cacao, coffee, rubber; has shipyards and various manufactures. The city was formerly regarded as the -most unhealthy in the world, on account ‘of. the prevalence of yellow fever. ‘ -W. ©. Gorgas, acting for the Rockefeller Foundation, cleared the city of this plague in 1919. Pop. 60,000. wovince, Ecuador; S. America; most important, industrially and commercially,-of the republic; climate hot, humid, unhealthy; soil fertile; agriculture is chief pursuit; vrincipal products—cacao, coffee, tobacco, sugar-cane: capital. Guayaquil. Area, 8300 sq. mil 4: seaport, Mexico, on Gulf of Californias good harbor; exports metals, hides.,Pop.? °