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Independence of Guayaquil
Guayaquil's independence independence process was held on October 9 de1820, in order to break the colonial ties that existed between the territory of the Province of Guayaquil and the Spanish Empire, and which led to the emergence of the Free Province Guayaquil. Guayaquil's independence marked the beginning of the war of independence of the Royal Audience of Quito aspart of the emancipation of Spanish wars. Among the most influential factors for triggering can determine the will of the natives, which already had a high social and economic status, to obtain political power.
In traditional Ecuadorian historiography has wanted to see as precedents for the independence of the city to several popular uprisings as the "Crisis of the taxes" in 1592 or "TobaccoRebellion" in 1765, but really have very little to do with claims independence from Spain. The first survey asking a government Creole in the Royal Audience of Quito was the August 10, 1809, driven by certain sectors of the population Quito illustrated by the ideas of the hero Eugenio Espejo. Traditionally this event is known as the "First Cry of Independence", however, the leaders of the cause ofindependence never spoke but clearly more political autonomy regarding lametrópoli and the viceregal capital. Indeed swore allegiance to King Ferdinand VII, thus opposing the invasion which at that time was suffering Spain by French troops and the proclamation deNapoleón Joseph Bonaparte as the new king. The troops sent by the viceroy of Peru, José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, which depended then theRoyal Audience of Quito, popular resistance ended on November 8, 1810.
Other causes that influenced significantly the independence of Guayaquil were emancipatory campaigns in the northern region of South America, led by Simon Bolivar. These events weakened the Spanish forces of the Audiencia of Quito.
Among the prominent figures of the independence revolution are Dr. José Joaquín de Olmedo, thehero José de Antepara, military León Febres Cordero and Oberto or General José de Villamil and others.

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[Edit] Early uprisings in the Royal Audience of Quito

 
Felipe V, King of Spain.
In colonial times there were several rebellions against the Spanish regime. In the Royal Audience of Quito occurred between July 1592 and April 1593 the Crisis of Alcabalas resulting confrontationentrecriollos, supported by the councils, and the Crown, who defended the interests of the audience. The main reason for these events is because alcabala taxes that were imposed on all the Viceroyalty of Peru for the Creoles, Indians exonerating. The reasons for these taxes are based on the costly wars in northern manteníaEspaña Europe.1 The riots led to violent clashes were followed by a troop sent bythe Viceroy of Peru. As a result of these surveys, the town hall was passed and was decreased autonomy which had enjoyed Quito.2 City
The political, administrative and economic Audience, who established the Spanish in 1765, led to a further confrontation between natives and escutcheons known as the Tobacco Rebellion. The purpose of this revolt was the people's favoritism towards the return of adecentralized government implemented earlier by the Spanish monarchs of the House of Austria and the first of the House of Bourbon, with the participation fee that had local sectors in state decisions. King Felipe V of Spain, through an ordinance, estatizaba production and distribution of liquor, the rebels were protesting the sale of this product had been set to open in 1738.3 This hadstrengthened the power elite criolla.4
[Edit] revolutionary idealism and international factors

 
Declaration of Independence of the United States.

 
Napoleon on his Imperial throne, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1806.
Revolutionary ideas against European colonialism in the Americas began to take shape after the struggle for independence of the Thirteen Colonies, which the British Empire had...