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The Living Guide to the Peninsula and Ruta del Spondylus

ECUAWIKI

A community-run guide to the Santa Elena coast of Ecuador — written by residents, for residents and visitors alike. Choose where you want to go.

🌊

Portal

The Peninsula

The westernmost point of mainland Ecuador. Three cities, dozens of fishing villages, eight thousand years of human history, and the most diverse stretch of Pacific coast in the country.

Salinas · La Libertad · Santa Elena
Ballenita · Ancón · Anconcito
Punta Blanca · Baños de San Vicente

Explore the Peninsula →

🏄

Portal

Ruta del Spondylus

The coastal highway north of the peninsula. A chain of surf towns, fishing coves, cloud-forest headlands, and some of the most beautiful beaches in Ecuador, running toward Manabí.

Ayangue · Manglaralto · Montañita
Olón · Curia · San José · Ayampe
La Rinconada · Las Tunas

Explore the Route →

📋

Portal

How-to Guides

The paperwork, the systems, and the things nobody explains to you when you arrive. Visas, cédulas, banking, internet, medical services — written by people who figured it out the hard way.

Visas · Cédulas · Residency
Banking · Medical Services
Internet · Taxis · Couriers

Open the Guides →

EcuaWiki — Founded and maintained by Stephan Kleeblatt. Community-contributed · Free · Ad-free · Active.

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-'''EcuaWiki''' is a collaborative documentation project dedicated to providing useful information for people living in, visiting, or relocating to Salinas and the surrounding areas of the Santa Elena Province in Ecuador.
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-[[The Salinas Greater Area|La Peninsula aka Salinas Greater Area]]
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-[[How-to Guides|How-to Guides]] Visas, Paperwork, taxes, banking.
-[[Ecuadorian Food 101]]
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+<div style="font-size:1.35em; font-weight:bold; color:#003d5c; margin-bottom:10px; line-height:1.2;">[[Portal:Peninsula|The Peninsula]]</div>
+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.88em; color:#6a6a6a; line-height:1.65; margin-bottom:20px;">The westernmost point of mainland Ecuador. Three cities, dozens of fishing villages, eight thousand years of human history, and the most diverse stretch of Pacific coast in the country.</div>
+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.82em; color:#4a4a4a; line-height:2; margin-bottom:22px;">Salinas · La Libertad · Santa Elena<br/>Ballenita · Ancón · Anconcito<br/>Punta Blanca · Baños de San Vicente</div>
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+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.88em; color:#6a6a6a; line-height:1.65; margin-bottom:20px;">The coastal highway north of the peninsula. A chain of surf towns, fishing coves, cloud-forest headlands, and some of the most beautiful beaches in Ecuador, running toward Manabí.</div>
+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.82em; color:#4a4a4a; line-height:2; margin-bottom:22px;">Ayangue · Manglaralto · Montañita<br/>Olón · Curia · San José · Ayampe<br/>La Rinconada · Las Tunas</div>
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+<div style="font-size:1.35em; font-weight:bold; color:#003d5c; margin-bottom:10px; line-height:1.2;">[[Portal:How-to Guides|How-to Guides]]</div>
+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.88em; color:#6a6a6a; line-height:1.65; margin-bottom:20px;">The paperwork, the systems, and the things nobody explains to you when you arrive. Visas, cédulas, banking, internet, medical services — written by people who figured it out the hard way.</div>
+<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.82em; color:#4a4a4a; line-height:2; margin-bottom:22px;">Visas · Cédulas · Residency<br/>Banking · Medical Services<br/>Internet · Taxis · Couriers</div>
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+<div>'''EcuaWiki''' — Founded and maintained by [[User:Stephan Kleeblatt|Stephan Kleeblatt]]. Community-contributed · Free · Ad-free · [[Special:RecentChanges|Active]].</div>
+<div>[[Wiki Guidelines|Contribute]] · [[Help:Formatting|How to edit]] · [[How to Donate|Donate]]</div>
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