Milagro is a city

City

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 located in Guayas

Guayas Province

Guayas is a coastal province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean ; to the east by Los Ríos, Bolívar, Chimborazo, Cañar, and Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos and Bolívar; and to the south by El Oro and the Pacific Ocean.With a population of over 3...

, Ecuador

Ecuador

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. It is the seat of Milagro Canton

Milagro Canton

Milagro Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Guayas Province. Its capital is the town of Milagro. Its population at the 2001 census was 140,103....

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Milagro is the second largest city in the province of Guayas. As of the census

Census

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 of 2007, there were 180,103 people residing within the canton limits. Milagro is known for its impressive progress in agriculture, industry and commerce. Sugar cane and pineapples are the most important crop

Agriculture

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History of the name

The name Milagro is derived from a legend. The story goes that in 1784, a man called Miguel de Salcedo arrived to the farm that is now Milagro, which in that time was part of Yaguachi.

His wife got sick and he started to look for a cure, but he couldn't find anything. One day a local Indian came to him and gave him a bunch of leaves and said that they will heal the woman.
Miguel de Salcedo, as desperate as he was, gave those leaves to his wife hoping that they work out and they did. However, Miguel de Salcedo did not think that the leaves saved his wife, instead he thought that San Francisco de Asís had saved his wife. Everybody thought that it was a "miracle" (milagro), and from that day that land started to be called Milagro.

Progress of Milagro

Milagro has been improving its infrastructure and getting better these last years. With the opening of a shopping center (El Paseo Shopping Milagro), cinema theaters, and the regeneration of the downtown, Milagro has now a new face that gives pride to the citizens of this location. The tourism is greater than before. One attractive place that has this city is Jerusalem, located at the bottom of the river Chimbo. But for most of the tourists, its main attraction is the Ingenio Valdez, which is the pride of Milagreños. This city provides hotel infrastructure, homes and nightclubs, social clubs and public and private sport courts, as the club Nacional and Visaltur. Its dishes are grilled meat, dried meat and dry goat, among others.

For more information about our city and people, visit www.milagromoda.com

List of Milagro residents

Azucena Mora- actress

Mercy Moran Lopez- wall street

Sylvana - singer, politician