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Ecuador - Registration in the Province of Esmeraldas

Documents consisting of statistical charts of censuses or registers of the population of the Province of Esmeraldas and the towns existing there. These documents are in the National Archive of Ecuador in the series called Empadronamientos (Registration), Province of Esmeraldas, Box 16, Files from 1 to 31, Box 17, files from 1 to 3. The population censuses were taken between the years 1825 and up to 1871, on several occasions. The years in which the censuses were taken in this province were: 1825; 1855; 1861; 1865; 1868; 1871. In box 16, file 27, number of pages 3, of November 1868, there is a general chart of the population of the whole Province of Esmeraldas.

Heritage documents in the National Archive of Ecuador in the series called Registrations.

The parishes in which the censuses were taken in the region of Esmeraldas were: Atacames, La Tola, La Concepción, Río Verde, and Salima.

Esmeraldas: towns Colope, Tachina, Tabules, Tiaone, Chula and Chigues

Rio Verde: towns Rio Verde and Hostiones

La Tola: towns La Tola, Cayapas and La Posa

City of Esmeraldas: towns La Boa, Tabulé, Camarones, Pueblo Viejo, Majua, Colope, Tiaone, Timbre, Chigue, Magua, Viche, Calvario.

La Concepción: towns of Lachabi, Playa de Oro, Bogotá, Guinbi, Cachavi, Concepción and Guinvi. Cape San Francisco and its town Bunche. San Lorenzo and its town Tambillo.

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Ecuador

State of conservation

Good

Type of document

Manuscript

Current Use

Research

Publication date

Desde 1825 hasta 1871.

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