These population figures are very nearly the same as those given by Cevállos for 1889. If the population of the Oriente be taken as 80,000, the aggretate is very nearly the same. The population of the provincial capitals is in some cases over-estimated, especially for Guayaquil and Quito, neither of which could have had 50,000 at the date of this estimate. The population of Quito in May 1906 was 50,841, of which 1365 were foreigners. As for the areas of the provinces the figures need not be questioned except those for the Oriente territory, which are much too large for the region actually occupied by Ecuador, and for the Galapagos Islands which are described by competent authorities as 2400 sq. m. The population of these islands was 400 (principally convicts) on Chatham Island in 1901, about 115 on Albemarle and 3 on Charles Island in 1903. Besides the provincial capitals already noted, there are no large and important towns in the country. The largest of the smaller towns is probably Jipijapa, in the province of Manabi, which is the centre of the Panama hat industry and had in 1900 an estimated population of 6000, nearly all Indians. +----------------+---------+-----------+------------+-----------+ | Provinces. | Area. |Population.| Capital. |Population.| +----------------+---------+-----------+------------+-----------+ | | sq. m. | | | | | Carchi | 1495 | 40,000 | Tulcan | 5,000 | | Imbabura | 2416 | 68,000 | Ibarra | 5,000 | | Pichincha | 6219 | 205,000 | Quito | 80,000 | | Léon | 2595 | 109,600 | Latacunga | 12,000 | | Tunguragua | 1686 | 103,000 | Ambato | 8,000 | | Chimborazo | 2990 | 122,000 | Riobamba | 12,000 | | Bolivar | 1260 | 43,000 | Guaranda | 6,000 | | Cañar | 1519 | 64,000 | Azogues | 4,000 | | Azuay | 3874 | 132,400 | Cuenca | 30,000 | | Loja | 3707 | 66,000 | Loja | 10,000 | | El Oro | 2340 | 32,600 | Machala | 3,200 | | Guayas | 8216 | 98,100 | Guayaquil | 60,000 | | Los Rios | 2296 | 32,800 | Babahoyo | 3,000 | | Manabi | 7893 | 64,100 | Portoviejo | 5,000 | | Esmeraldas | 5465 | 14,600 | Esmeraldas | 6,000 | | Oriente (ter.) | unknown | | | | | Galapagos Is. | 2865 | 2,000 | · · | · · | +----------------+---------+-----------+------------+-----------+