Qualla: Portoviejo https://qualla.com/portoviejo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Portoviejo https://qualla.com/portoviejo Portoviejo: Introduction https://qualla.com/portoviejo/ At 6:58 p.m. on April 16, 2016, the ground moved for 75 seconds and Portoviejo came apart. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the coast of Ecuador that Saturday evening, and by the time the shaking stopped more than 300 people in this inland city were dead and the downtown was rubble. Portoviejo had been through crises before, but this one took the churches and the banks and the market stalls at once. What happened next surprised even the people who lived it. The city chose to rebuild around its kitchen. Three years later, in October 2019, UNESCO named Portoviejo a Creative City of Gastronomy, the first Ecuadorian city to receive the designation. Food became the way back.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/y/f/portoviejo-wp/6pyf-portoviejo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Portoviejo: City of the Royal Tamarinds https://qualla.com/portoviejo/ Francisco Pacheco, a Spanish captain, founded Villa Nueva de San Gregorio de Portoviejo on March 12, 1535, making it one of the oldest cities in Ecuador. The original site was on the coast, but constant attacks from indigenous populations forced the settlers to relocate inland in...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/y/f/portoviejo-wp/6pyf-portoviejo-city-of-the-royal-tamarinds.mp3 0:06 2 full Portoviejo: The Earthquake https://qualla.com/portoviejo/ The Pacific plate grinds beneath the South American plate off the coast of Ecuador, and that interface produces some of the most powerful earthquakes on Earth. The 2016 rupture occurred about 20 kilometers below the surface near Muisne, with Pedernales roughly 35 kilometers from ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/y/f/portoviejo-wp/6pyf-portoviejo-the-earthquake.mp3 0:06 3 full Portoviejo: The UNESCO City https://qualla.com/portoviejo/ Portoviejo's answer was gastronomy. Manabi cuisine draws on deep coastal traditions: peanut-thickened seafood stews, plantain-based dishes like bolon and tigrillo, corundas and encebollados, and the use of green bananas and yuca in ways that mark the region as distinct from the A...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/y/f/portoviejo-wp/6pyf-portoviejo-the-unesco-city.mp3 0:06 4 full Portoviejo: Beyond the Plate https://qualla.com/portoviejo/ The city has other layers. The Jardin Botanico de Portoviejo sprawls across 50 hectares in the northeast, owned by the Technical University of Manabi and home to orchid gardens, a palmetum, and a plant rescue area that serves as both refuge and classroom. The Parque Arqueologico ...

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