Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral is a public university located in Guayaquil, Guayas Province in Ecuador. ESPOL has five University Faculties or Schools fifteen Research centers and several associated centers providing twenty-six Undergraduate degrees and ten master's degree and research in multiple areas of knowledge.HistoryFoundation yearsOn October 24, 1958, through Executive Decree 1664 by President Camilo Ponce Enriquez, the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral was created as a higher education institution due to increasing demands for a scientific and technological education for the Littoral Region.On Tuesday, May 19, 1959, ESPOL was inaugurated, and the following Monday,May 25, 1959, classes began. Its first location, due to the lack of its own campus, was the old "Casona" building on "Chile" Street of the Universidad de Guayaquil. The area around the historical Peñas area provided a central location in the city, and the buildings in that area were bough by ESPOL with an initial payment of 12 million sucres.On 1969, The Quinto Guayas Battalion, gave to ESPOL the area between the Simón Bolívar embankment and Loja Street, where the four departments that existed at that time (Engineering in Geology, Mining engineering and Petroleum engineering; Electrical engineering; Naval engineering and Mechanical engineering) were co-located.