Santa Ana Hill - Cerro Santa Ana

Santa Ana hill is located on the northeast side of town, next to the Guayas River and the traditional neighborhood of Las Peñas

The hill, formerly called Cerrito Verde is the place where the city was born when it was founded at its bottom in 1547. Currently, the hill is a tourist spot. In 310 meters you have restaurants, coffee houses, art galleries, and craft shops. It has squares and parks and green areas for recreation and rest. And of course, a majestic view of Guayaquil.

From the top you can see, to the north, the intersection of the Babahoyo and Daule rivers (that form the Guayas river) to the south, the downtown area and Santay Island and Duran to the east. To the west, there’s Mount Carmen and the rest of the city. There are 456 stairs of restaurants, people, services, history, and many more.

Plaza Mirador the Fortín

Is the highest point of the Hill, where the lighthouse is located, the Honors Plaza, the chapel of Santa Ana, the open museum

Lighthouse (built in 2002):  It has a great symbolic representation. It has a height of 18,75 mts. and posses an internal stair that takes you to the terrace, the strategic point to observe the city.

Open Museum (built in 2002): To guard the city that blossom in the Santa Ana Hill, it was founded in 1629 the Castle, Fort or San Carlos Fortín located at the top of the Santa Ana Hill. At the time that many continuos pirate attacks kept coming.

Santa Ana Port   

On the facilities of the old National Brewery, a new touristic attraction for the city and it will be called Puerta Santa Ana (Santa Ana Port). It will be a center for entertainment, recreation and sport. The project will have a recreational complex, civic plaza, convention center and a thematic museum related with the production of the beer. It will also have some spaces dedicated to a museum of important people like the singer Julio Jaramillo, the radiotalker Carlos Armando Romero Rodas, and the teams of the city Barcelona and Emelec. There will be a hotel, offices, restaurants, small businesses and small boardwalks that will turn it, without a doubt, in the new gathering center for the citizens of this city, the country and the whole world.

Barrio Las Peñas

Las Peñas neighborhood is the city’s oldest neighborhood, and now its being restored to show it as once was. Currently it is the center of cultural activities and expositions.  Located next to the river it lightens the city from its side. Currently, it gathers what it takes to be considered a liaison between written history and wooden constructions and contemporary construction made out of iron, cement and glass. Its peculiar architectonic style, its narrow street, the houses by the river that have two fronts make it an attractive destiny for tourists. Every July it becomes a window to the arts and culture of artists that live there and the cultural manifestations that take place year after year.