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Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton

Tarqui is an urban parish in Guayaquil Canton, Guayas, Ecuador, named after the Battle of Tarqui.

Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton
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The place

Tarqui is an urban parish in Guayaquil Canton, Guayas, Ecuador, named after the Battle of Tarqui. Occupying the northern half of the city, it is the largest and most populous parish in Guayaquil. Most universities are located in its territory.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Guayaquil Ecuador Temple

    LDS Church temple in Guayaquil, Ecuador

    3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt

    Football stadium in Guayaquil, Ecuador

    3.1 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton

Airports
José Joaquín de Olmedo (GYE), 4 km · General Ulpiano Paez (SNC), 120 km · Mariscal Sucre (UIO), 282 km
  • Salinas/La Libertad → Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton
    387 km · quickest by road, 12h 51m · $30–40
  • Quito → Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton
    397 km · quickest by road, 13h 10m · $31–41
  • Tachina → Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton
    442 km · quickest by road, 14h 2m · $33–44
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe cost is $110 per person when booked via tour operator Canodos.
  • Go nextThe tour operator is essential if you don't speak Spanish.

From Wikivoyage: Guayaquil, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,230 km
  2. 02
    HuacachinaPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,406 km
  3. 03
    OllantaytamboPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,496 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,642 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,928 km

If you know how people move in Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton

Tarqui, Guayaquil Canton is 8 km from Guayaquil, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.