DURAN CITY

Anyone know, why this city is called “Duran”? 
 

It has two meanings:
FIRST: In the past, there lived here in the city a man named “Duran”. He had made a delicious fritada. When Guayaquil people wanted to eat Fritada, they said: Let’s go to Mr. Duran to eat his Fritada. After some time, they said: Let’s go to Duran to eat Fritada
SECOND: In the past, a man named Duran had a big ranch here, he needed a lot of workers. At that time, Mr. Duran gave a small gift of land to each one so they could build their home. When Mr. Duran died, workers called this place Duran, because their boss was a good person with them.

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Duran is known like RAILWAY CITY, because in the first moment when the train was here, was constructed the principal RAILWAY STATION and around there were houses for managers of the Railway Company, train drivers, brake men and staff that work in the railway maintenance. Nowadays that space is located in the Duran Downtown. The station where we have gone out, is practically a new station, where in the past years only was located the workshop.

Duran have around 125.000 habitants. Duran is a town 100% related to the railway activity for that reason its name is “Eloy Alfaro Duràn”. He finished the construction of the south railroad in 1908, june 24.

CEMENTERY
On my right side we can see the cementery of this town; It is almost old as the town. In that time the cemeteries located far from the population, for that reason, Ferrocarriles del Ecuador, provided services which let the families transport their dead relative to the cemetery in the train platform.

QUARRIES
The hill that we see towards your right side is called Concretos and Pre-fabricados S.A”. This hill has been working since the beginning of the demographic development.
At the beginning, these big blue rocks, men and women crushed those rocks with big combos. Those small rocks were put between the rails and the wooden sleepers.
Nowadays this quarries use crusher machines to get small stone.