El Guabo, El Oro, Ecuador Genealogy

Guide to Canton of El Guabo ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * It emerged as a picturesque village, between 1770 and 1775, until the late 1920s in the small, but important, legendary commercial river port, where large canoes and sloops came out transporting, mainly banana, cocoa and coffee to Tendales and Bajo Alto.
 * It was elevated to the category of Parish, on April 30, 1882.
 * The date of cantonization of El Guabo was September 7, 1978.
 * El Guabo Canton has a population of approximately 50,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no online records for the El Guabo Canton.

Parish Records

 * 1898-1959 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries

 * Cementerio de el Guabo

Urban Parishes

 * El Guabo

Rural Parishes

 * Barbones (Sucre)
 * La Iberia
 * Tendales
 * Río Bonito
 * Chontillal