Santa Elena (canton seat)
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Santa Elena is a town in southwestern Ecuador
, and is the capital of both the province and the canton of the same name.
At the 2001 census
there were 111,671 people living within the canton limits.
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
, and is the capital of both the province and the canton of the same name.
At the 2001 census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
there were 111,671 people living within the canton limits.