Pedro Carbo

Pedro Carbo is a metropolis placed in the coastal Guayas, Ecuador, close to Manabí province. it is located on the 63 kilometer marker on the street from Guayaquil to Manabí. it is the seat of Pedro Carbo Cantón, founded in 1984. As of the census of 2001, there are 36,711 people living inside canton limits. a brand new census became performed in 2010 but effects are yet unknown. The city is named after Pedro Carbo Noboa, a 19th-century politician, diplomat and author from Guayaquil. The location now called Pedro Carbo became once referred to as "Rio Nuevo" and turned into an crucial metropolis in the parroquia "San Juan de Soledad", now referred to as the town of Isidro Ayora.

On August 1, 1893 the name changed into changed to Caamaño and became designated a rural parroquia of the cantón Daule, positioned to the east. The metropolis saved the name Caamaño till 1895 all through the Liberal Revolution, while its name become changed to honor Pedro Carbo Noboa. inside the Territorial department law of 1897, the change became formally documented. eventually on July 12, 1984 the president of the Republic, Dr. Oswaldo Hurtado Larrea, d the formation of Cantón Pedro Carbo, which became posted in the Civil Registry N° 790 on July 19, 1984.