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Inocar installed a sea buoy to detect Tsunamis in Esmeraldas

At 70 nautical miles off the coast of the province of Esmeraldas, the Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOCAR) installed a tsunami detection buoy at a depth of 2,900 meters. The INOCAR staff and officials of the Mediterranean Maritime Signals of Spain and Sonardyne, from...
Posted On 10 Mar 2014
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Tame opens new route and improves flight schedules

From next month Tame will add a new international route to its flight menu. The state company will reach to Fort Lauderdale airport in Miami, USA and currently the schedules and costs of the passages are being defined. The decision came after a comprehensive review of the work of...
Posted On 07 Mar 2014
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Dayuma Kento, first contacted Huaorani woman, died

According to information from the Collective Huangana Organization Amazonian Women of Pastaza, Dayuma Kento, the first woman of the Huaorani ethnic group who maintained contact with foreign missionaries in the 50s, died on last Saturday at 07:00 am in Puyo, in the home of one of...
Posted On 03 Mar 2014
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Abdala Bucaram must take care over heart condition

Because of a cardiac inflammation, former president Abdala Bucaram Ortiz cannot discuss about politics or something exasperating for at least three months. Bucaram, self-exiled in Panama 17 years ago, suffers from myocarditis, a condition in which the heart is affected by a...
Posted On 03 Mar 2014
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Glaciers of Ecuadorian summits give up due to climate change

Bolivar Caceres is in charge of Glaciers Ecuador Program, which runs the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi) since 1994 to verify receding of icecaps in the seven summits with glaciers that Ecuador has, one of the impacts of climate change. Caceres explains...
Posted On 02 Mar 2014
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Ecuador plans to expand its continental shelf to 350 miles

The Expert Secretary of Sea, José Centanaro Rodríguez reported yesterday that  a study of the characteristics and resources of the seabed has started, this will last four years and  a  $ 40 million dollars investment . This research comes after the signing of UNCLOS (United...
Posted On 26 Feb 2014
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Correa inspects works in the Guayaquil-Isla Santay bridge

In order to verify the advances in the work; President Rafael Correa toured this Tuesday at midday the bridge that will join Guayaquil with Santay Island. This work is scheduled to be finalized until March. “We have a bridge to Durán, not be forgotten that Santay Island is...
Posted On 25 Feb 2014
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New Terminal via Daule will open in July 2015

The current mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, reported yesterday that in July this year the construction of the new satellite ground terminal of Guayaquil will begin, at km 14.5 of the Daule road, so that in July 2015, it will start serve travelers going to Duale, Nobol and other...
Posted On 20 Feb 2014
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Guayaquil suffered heavy rainfall with thunderstorm

Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorm fell yesterday afternoon in much of the city of Guayaquil. From approximately 17:00 downpour hit the center and South zone and spread to the north side at 18:00. The streets were flooded and caused traffic chaos, traffic congestion in...
Posted On 15 Feb 2014
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University of the Arts has begun to operate

The administrative activities of the University of the Arts (Uartes) start today. So said the Minister of culture and national heritage, Paco Velasco, in a press conference yesterday in the Simon Bolivar of the Guayas Government Hall. The array, located in the renovated building...
Posted On 12 Feb 2014
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