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	<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em; color:#5a3a00; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:18px; padding-left:16px; border-left:3px solid #d4a030;">"In Ancón, it seems the calendar stopped at the beginning of the 1900s. Old pump jacks still nod at the earth. The birdsong mixes with their mechanical rhythm. Victorian wooden houses lean into the coastal wind. A century of oil history is still visible in every street."</div>		<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em; color:#5a3a00; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:18px; padding-left:16px; border-left:3px solid #d4a030;">"In Ancón, it seems the calendar stopped at the beginning of the 1900s. Old pump jacks still nod at the earth. The birdsong mixes with their mechanical rhythm. Victorian wooden houses lean into the coastal wind. A century of oil history is still visible in every street."</div>

	'''Ancón''' (formally '''San José de Ancón''') is a rural parish in the [[Santa Elena ~~Canton~~]] and the birthplace of Ecuador's petroleum industry. On 5 November 1911, British company '''Anglo Ecuadorian Oilfields Limited''' drilled '''Pozo Ancón 1''' here — the first commercial oil well in the country, and the event that triggered over a century of hydrocarbon extraction on the Santa Elena Peninsula.		'''Ancón''' (formally '''San José de Ancón''') is a rural parish in the [[Santa Elena]] and the birthplace of Ecuador's petroleum industry. On 5 November 1911, British company '''Anglo Ecuadorian Oilfields Limited''' drilled '''Pozo Ancón 1''' here — the first commercial oil well in the country, and the event that triggered over a century of hydrocarbon extraction on the Santa Elena Peninsula.

	The company built a complete company town: British-style wooden houses for its managers, workers' barracks, social clubs, a hospital, a church, a commissary stocked with imported goods, and even a desalination plant. For 65 years Ancón operated as a self-contained British oil settlement on the Ecuadorian coast. When the state nationalised the fields in 1976 and the Anglo withdrew, the town was left largely as it was — and has been slowly ageing ever since.		The company built a complete company town: British-style wooden houses for its managers, workers' barracks, social clubs, a hospital, a church, a commissary stocked with imported goods, and even a desalination plant. For 65 years Ancón operated as a self-contained British oil settlement on the Ecuadorian coast. When the state nationalised the fields in 1976 and the Anglo withdrew, the town was left largely as it was — and has been slowly ageing ever since.

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	<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">'''San José de Ancón''' is a rural parish of Santa Elena canton, created by Ministerial Agreement No. 350 on 15 November 2002 (published in the Registro Oficial on 4 February 2003) after a civic campaign that began the day after the 1976 nationalization. It had '''7,918 residents''' in the 2022 census and covers about 78 km². It borders Santa Elena city to the north, the Pacific to the south, Atahualpa parish to the east, and José Luis Tamayo parish (Salinas canton) and La Libertad canton to the west. Its two communes are '''El Tambo''', known for woodworking (''ebanistería''), and '''Prosperidad''', which includes the Francisco de Orellana (Country Club) enclave and San Joaquín. The name comes from the Latin ''ancon'' (elbow, bend), a reference to the sheltered cove.</div>		<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">'''San José de Ancón''' is a rural parish of Santa Elena canton, created by Ministerial Agreement No. 350 on 15 November 2002 (published in the Registro Oficial on 4 February 2003) after a civic campaign that began the day after the 1976 nationalization. It had '''7,918 residents''' in the 2022 census and covers about 78 km². It borders Santa Elena city to the north, the Pacific to the south, Atahualpa parish to the east, and José Luis Tamayo parish (Salinas canton) and La Libertad canton to the west. Its two communes are '''El Tambo''', known for woodworking (''ebanistería''), and '''Prosperidad''', which includes the Francisco de Orellana (Country Club) enclave and San Joaquín. The name comes from the Latin ''ancon'' (elbow, bend), a reference to the sheltered cove.</div>
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	<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">The settlement was placed under the protection of St Joseph ('''San José''') by its Polish community in 1923; the present parish church, the Iglesia San José de Ancón, dates from 1957. On 6 November 1934 Schlumberger ran Ecuador's first electrical well log here.</div>		<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">The settlement was placed under the protection of St Joseph ('''San José''') by its Polish community in 1923; the present parish church, the Iglesia San José de Ancón, dates from 1957. On 6 November 1934 Schlumberger ran Ecuador's first electrical well log here.</div>
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	<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">Ancón's coast is backed by cliffs rather than tower blocks and sees far fewer visitors than Salinas. '''Playa Acapulco''', the main beach in the sheltered cove, has calm water and is the parish's weekend meeting place. '''Playa Mambra''', just south, has rock formations and the remains of an old seawater desalination plant; '''Playa La Sal (De los Chinos)''', the southernmost, is quieter still. The clifftop miradores look over the beaches, Anconcito and the pump jacks on the hillsides.</div>		<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">Ancón's coast is backed by cliffs rather than tower blocks and sees far fewer visitors than Salinas. '''Playa Acapulco''', the main beach in the sheltered cove, has calm water and is the parish's weekend meeting place. '''Playa Mambra''', just south, has rock formations and the remains of an old seawater desalination plant; '''Playa La Sal (De los Chinos)''', the southernmost, is quieter still. The clifftop miradores look over the beaches, Anconcito and the pump jacks on the hillsides.</div>
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	<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">The Ancón–Anconcito cliffs are a proposed geosite of the Santa Elena Peninsula Geopark Project, exposing Tertiary sediments and natural bitumen seeps. Wildlife includes frigatebirds, blue-footed boobies offshore, burrowing owls in the dry scrub, and humpback whales from June to September, which can be watched from the clifftops.</div>		<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">The Ancón–Anconcito cliffs are a proposed geosite of the Santa Elena Peninsula Geopark Project, exposing Tertiary sediments and natural bitumen seeps. Wildlife includes frigatebirds, blue-footed boobies offshore, burrowing owls in the dry scrub, and humpback whales from June to September, which can be watched from the clifftops.</div>
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	<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">'''19 March''' — Fiesta de San José, the patron-saint feast (Mass and procession)<br>'''15 November''' — anniversary of parish status (2002)<br>'''February''' — Carnival<br>'''2 November''' — Día de los Difuntos (colada morada and guaguas de pan)<br>'''31 December''' — ''años viejos'' burned at midnight</div>		<div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:0.85em; color:#5a4a3a; line-height:1.7; margin-bottom:10px;">'''19 March''' — Fiesta de San José, the patron-saint feast (Mass and procession)<br>'''15 November''' — anniversary of parish status (2002)<br>'''February''' — Carnival<br>'''2 November''' — Día de los Difuntos (colada morada and guaguas de pan)<br>'''31 December''' — ''años viejos'' burned at midnight</div>
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