Flood Risk Guayaquil

This is the group page of five students from Delft University of Technology who are going to analyse the water problems in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Over the last decades Guayaquil has grown rapidly. It is the city with the highest population in Ecuador with more than 2.5 million people. Guayaquil is on the west coast of Ecuador and is located at the end of a large estuary and the river Guayas. From an article published in the ‘Nature Climate Change’ (‘Future flood losses in major coastal cities’, 2013) it has become known that Guayaquil is on  ...