Milagro, Ecuador

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Milagro (Spanish for miracle) is a city located in Guayas, Ecuador. It is the seat of the canton of Milagro.

Milagro is the second largest city in the province of Guayas. As of the census of 2001, there are 140,103 people residing within canton limits. Sugar cane is the most important crop.

[edit] The History of the name of Milagro

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.

[edit] The 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.