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Montecristi is a town in the Manabí province of Ecuador and the capital of Montecristi Canton.
Map of Montecristi, Ecuador
As of the 2010 census Montecristi had 70.292 inhabitants.
The town is renowned for the production of Panama hats, the best quality of which is named montecristi superfino after it.
Montecristi is the birthplace of Eloy Alfaro Delgado (25 June 1842-28 January 1912), president of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911 and the leader of the Ecuadorian Liberal Revolution. Because of this, Montecristi was selected by the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly in 2007 as the seat of covenants for the 2008 Constitution of Ecuador.
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Montecristi, Ecuador Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA