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Archives and Libraries

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National Archives of Ecuador (Archivo Nacional del Ecuador)
Av. 10 de Agosto N11-539 y Santa Prisca
Quito, Ecuador
Telefax: 593 2 228 0431
Email: Archivonacionalec@andinanet.net
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The National Archive is the leading institution in the custody and administration of Documentary Heritage, protecting and caring for the country's written memory and establishing technical rules and procedures for archival description.

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Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco – Historical Archive (Archivo Historico "Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco")
Carrion 10-40 y Av. 10 de Agosto
Quito, Ecuador
Telephone: 593 2 299 3284/299 3285
Email: darchhis@mmrree.gov.ec

The files that rest in the Historical Archive 'Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco' of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry were included in the Unesco Memory of the World Register, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. Among these documents are 69 volumes containing the files of 2,445 cases of naturalizations of foreign citizens between 1899 and 1968.

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Historical Archive of Guayas (Archivo Histórico del Guayas)
Calle Alberto Borges y Av. de las Américas # 1126 antes de llegar al aeropuerto
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Telephone: 593 4 239 4441
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This Archive includes five Funds that are: Protocols, Trials, Historical Library, Library of the Historical Research Center of Guayaquil, and Microfilms. Of these, the first two are of interest, whose extreme dates are 1635 to 1888, with a total of 8,000 documents. There are, however, 120 unclassified files, and there are only inventories from 1830 to 1888.

Libraries

National Library of Ecuador (Biblioteca Nacional Del Ecuador Eugenio Espejo)
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana - Benjamín Carrión, Avenida 6 de Diciembre
Quito, Ecuador
Sodiro y Valparaíso (esquina)
Quito 170524
Telephone: 593 2 381 4550
Email: info@bne.gob.ec
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Museums

National Museum of Ecuador (Museo Nacional)
Avenida Patria (between Avenida 6 de Diciembre and Avenida 12 de Octubre)
Quito, Ecuador
Telephone: 593 2 381 4550 Ext. 6000
Email: contacto.muna@culturaypatrimonio.gob.ec

Located in the circular, glass-plated, landmark building of the Casa de la Cultura is one of the country’s largest collections of Ecuadorian art, with magnificent works of pre-Hispanic and colonial religious art. The museum collection includes more than 1000 ceramic pieces dating from 12,000 BC to AD 1534, with highlights being ‘whistle bottles’ from the Chorrera culture, figures showing skull deformation practiced by the Machalilla culture, wild serpent bowls from the Jama-Coaque and ceramic representations of tzantzas (shrunken heads). The ‘coin axes’ from the Milagro-Quevedo culture and the famous ceremonial stone chairs of the Manteños culture are also interesting. Displays in the Sala de Oro (Gold Room) include a magnificent radiating golden sun mask. Archaeological exhibits include arrowheads from Ecuador’s first nomadic hunter-gatherers, the Valdivia culture (Ecuador’s first settled agriculturalists) and the Inca.

Record Offices

Records of births, marriages and deaths are at the civil registration office in each municipality.

Copies are in Quito at the:

Direccion Genereal del Registro Civil, Edificio San Agustin, Mejia y Guayaquil
Address: Av. Amazonas N37-61 y Naciones Unidas (Av. Amazonas N37-61 and United Nations)
Postal Code: 170507 / Quito - Ecuador
Telephone: +593 2 3731 110
Telephone: (593)(2)381 42 90
Website: https://www.registrocivil.gob.ec/

Provincial Office	Phone Number	Provincial Office	Phone Number
Azuay	072-844-611	Los Rios	052-731-220
Bolivar	032-980-292	Manabi	052-394-960
Cañar	072-244-450	Morona Santiago	072-700-173
Carchi	062-982-662	Napo	062-886-325
Cotopaxi	032-805-692	Orellana	062-882-170
Chimborazo	032-966-989	Pastaza	032-884-734
El Oro	072-931-068	Pichincha	022-675-902
Esmeraldas	062-724-525	Santa Elena	043-802-300 ext. 1041
Galapagos	052-520-312	Santo Domingo	022-743-041
Guayas	043-802-300 ext. 3200	Sucumbios	062-832-804
Imbabura	062-955-335	Tungurahua	032-520-648
Loja	072-571-364	Zamora Chinchipe	072-505-183