Qualla: Babahoyo https://qualla.com/babahoyo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Babahoyo https://qualla.com/babahoyo Babahoyo: Introduction https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Danny Cañar, CC BY-SA 4.0. In Babahoyo, the rivers decide where the city can stand. The San Pablo River runs down from the western slopes of the Andes, and the Catarama River meets it in an estuary, and together they form the Babahoyo River, which flows south to join the Daule and become the Guayas, which flows through Guayaquil and out to the Pacific at the Gulf. Babahoyo is one of the last inland points before that system becomes tidal. The city holds about 98,000 people and serves as the capital of Los Ríos province - a lowland province of rice paddies, banana plantations, and agricultural work that feeds the country. It floods almost every winter. It has burned down at least once. And on June 9, 2023, it became the place where Bella Montoya banged on the inside of a coffin lid.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Babahoyo: The Woman Who Was Not Dead https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Tuxedo14, CC BY-SA 4.0. Bella Montoya, 76 years old, was admitted to the Martín Icaza government hospital with suspected stroke. She went into what doctors recorded as cardiorespiratory arrest. Resuscitation failed. The attending physician pronounced her dead, and her body was released to her family. A ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-the-woman-who-was-not-dead.mp3 0:06 2 full Babahoyo: Bodegas, Fires, and the Move https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Alfredo Molina, CC BY-SA 3.0. Before Babahoyo was Babahoyo, it was Bodegas - Spanish for warehouses. The customs office and royal stores for the Audiencia de Quito sat here, controlling commerce between Guayaquil and the Ecuadorian mountains. Goods coming up from the coast or down from the highlands passed th...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-bodegas-fires-and-the-move.mp3 0:06 3 full Babahoyo: Floods, Bridges, and Buses https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Elemaki, CC BY-SA 2.5. Babahoyo floods. Not occasionally, not dramatically, but routinely during Ecuador's rainy winter season. In early 2008, the entire city flooded in a particularly severe event that stretched across months. The infrastructure responds with what infrastructure can. Four vehicle brid...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-floods-bridges-and-buses.mp3 0:06 4 full Babahoyo: Rice, Sugar, and the Floating Houses https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Agencia de Noticias ANDES, CC BY-SA 2.0. The surrounding fields produce rice and bananas in the quantities a province called Los Ríos - The Rivers - can reliably deliver. Babahoyo handles the processing and export: rice mills, sugar refineries, balsa wood exports, and the strange commodity called tagua - vegetable ivory...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-rice-sugar-and-the-floating-houses.mp3 0:06 5 full Babahoyo: The Virgin of Merced and Parque 24 de Mayo https://qualla.com/babahoyo/ Photo credit Agencia de Noticias ANDES, CC BY-SA 2.0. September 24 is the day of the Virgin of Merced, Babahoyo's patron. Beginning September 15, neighborhood groups carry the Virgin through the streets on nine consecutive nights. On the day itself, the city holds a fair - artisans from the mountain and coastal regions of Ecuador se...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/m/babahoyo-wp/6pxm-babahoyo-the-virgin-of-merced-and-parque-24-de-mayo.mp3 0:06 6 full