Milagro | |
Official Name: | San Francisco de Milagro |
Nickname: | Tierra de la caña de azucar y de la piña (Milagro la ciudad mas dulce del Ecuador) |
Settlement Type: | City |
Total Type: | City |
Motto: | Milagro is changing (Milagro esta cambiando) |
Pushpin Map: | Ecuador |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ecuador |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Guayas |
Subdivision Type2: | Canton |
Subdivision Name2: | Milagro |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Pedro Solines |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 17 September 1913 |
Area Total Km2: | 26.06 |
Elevation M: | 12 |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 159970 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | ECT |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Coordinates: | -2.1347°N -79.5872°W |
Blank Name Sec1: | Climate |
Blank Info Sec1: | Aw |
Area Code: | (+593) 04 |
Blank Name: | Demonym |
Blank Info: | milagreño, -a |
San Francisco de Milagro (also known as Milagro, which is Spanish for Miracle) is a city located in Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of Milagro Canton.
Milagro is the fourth largest city in the province of Guayas. As of the census of 2022, there were 195,943 people residing within the canton limits.[2]
Denisse Robles, mayor (2014), pledged to get a city railway station and to improve the coverage of Milagro's drinking water.[3] She was elected the mayor of Milagro in 2014 with 38% of the vote, finishing ahead of the incumbent mayor Francisco Asan.[4] Robles assumed office in May 2014, becoming the first female mayor of the city, and the youngest mayor in the country.[5]