Ventanas Canton is a

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Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

, located in the

Los Ríos Province Los Ríos () is a province in Ecuador. The province's capital is Babahoyo. The province was founded on October 6, 1860. Under legislative decree. Babahoyo was made its capital on September 30, 1948. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuador ...

. Its capital is the town of

Ventanas Ventanas is an Ecuadorian city; head of the Ventanas Canton, in the Los Ríos Province, as well as the fourth most populated city in the Province of Los Ríos. It is located in the center of the coastal region of Ecuador, on an extensive plain, ...

. Its population at the 2001 census was 71,145.

Governance

The Ventanas canton, like the other Ecuadorian cantons, is governed by a municipal government as stipulated in the National Political Constitution. The Municipal Government of Ventanas is a sectional government entity that administers the canton autonomously from the central government.

Populations figures

According to INEC projections for 2022, the canton has a population of 76,104 inhabitants, making it the fourth most populous canton at the provincial level. Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: Ethnic groups as of the

Ecuadorian census The Ecuadorian census is conducted by the governmental institution known as ''INEC'', ''Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos'' (National Institute of Statistics and Census).INEC The census in Ecuador is conducted every 10 years, and its obj ...

of 2010: *

Mestizo ( , ; fem. , literally 'mixed person') is a term primarily used to denote people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry in the former Spanish Empire. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturall ...

55.5% *

Montubio Montubio is the term used to describe the Mestizos in Ecuador, mestizo people of the countryside of coastal Ecuador. The Montubio make up 7.4% of the country's population and were recognized as a distinct ethnicity by the government in the sprin ...

33.8% *

Afro-Ecuadorian Afro-Ecuadorians (), also known as Black Ecuadorians (), are Ecuadorians of predominantly Sub-Saharan African descent. History and background Most Afro-Ecuadorians are the descendants of enslaved Africans who were transported by predominantly B ...

5.8% *

White White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wa ...

3.7% *

Indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

1.0% *Other 0.3%

Political divisions

The canton is divided into 5 parishes (), classified as either urban or rural. The canton has more parishes than any other canton in Ecuador. The urban parishes make up the city of

. Rural parishes *Chacarita *Los Ángeles *Zapotal Urban parishes *10 de Noviembre *Ventanas

References

Cantons of Los Ríos Province {{Ecuador-geo-stub