November 2021 Guayaquil prison riot

The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed and several others were injured in the riot that took place in that prison. It was the deadliest prison fight in the country's history and one of the deadliest in Latin American history.

Estadio Christian Benítez Betancourt is a football stadium in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It was named after footballer Christian Benítez. Guayaquil City F.C. play their home games at the 10,152-capacity stadium.

Hogar de Cristo, Guayaquil, "Home of Christ" – HC, was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1971 in response to a critical shortage of housing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and in accord with the preferential option for the poor which spread in the Catholic church after the Second Vatican Council of Bishops in the 1960s.While HC continues to prefabricate homes, its activities have extended to supplying community facilities, education and worker training, health care, microcredit, and special services for abused women and children.

The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) is a public university located in Guayaquil, Guayas Province in Ecuador. ESPOL has five faculties or schools, fifteen research centers, and several associated centers providing twenty-six undergraduate and ten master's degrees.

Tarqui is an urban parish in Guayaquil Canton, Guayas, Ecuador, named after the Battle of Tarqui. Tarqui is the largest and most populous parish in Guayaquil. It occupies the northern half of the city. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 835,486 inhabitants, 42.9% of the population in the city. Its southeastern portion belongs to the downtown.

Mapasingue is a barrio (neighborhood) of the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UEES) is a non-profit private university in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Its campus is in Samborondón, Greater Guayaquil. One distinctive program of UEES is the College of International Studies, home to the International Careers Program (ICP), which offers courses entirely in English, the School of Translation and Interpretation, the School of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, and the Center for International Education. Founded by Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado, it was accredited by CONESUP, then the Ecuadorian higher education governing agency.

The Guayaquil Ecuador Temple is the 58th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

The German School of Guayaquil (Spanish: Colegio Alemán Humboldt Guayaquil, German: Deutsche Schule Guayaquil) is a multilingual school in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It was founded in 1957 by Renate Lemke to meet the necessities of the German immigrants in the city. It is one of 117 German schools abroad and one of the three German schools in Ecuador. It belongs to the International Baccalaureate Organization and offers the Diploma Program.

Xavier, Guayaquil (Spanish: Unidad Educativa Javier) is a private Catholic pre-school, primary and secondary school, located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The school was established as a school for boys in 1956 by the Society of Jesus; and became coeducational in 2004.

Simón Bolívar Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Guayas Province. Its capital is the town of Simón Bolívar. Its population at the 2001 census was 20,385.

Centro Comercial Albán Borja is a shopping mall located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It was inaugurated on 10 March 1983, and its named after Colonel Agustín Albán Borja of the navy; its architecture is based on hexagonal shapes which makes many of the people who visit the shopping center become disoriented, due to the shape of a 8 with seven points makes the food court triangular in shape. With a construction area of 72,000 m2, capacity for 800 vehicles, 130 commercial premises, it is, together with the Policentro, the first two shopping centers in the city of the 80s. The establishment also functions as an administrative shopping center, with an average of approximately between 15,000 and 20,000 daily visitors for judicial and banking services, business procedures and the purchase of groceries. Its influx increased due to the arrival of the prosecutor's flagrante delicto unit and the office for users of the Municipal Transit Authority (ATM). In 2017, the shopping center was remodeled for the first time after 34 years of operation, including LED lighting, flooring, and replacement of the wooden deck at a cost of $400,000.