Portovelo Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the El Oro Province. Its capital is the town of Portovelo. Its population at the 2001 census was 11,024.DemographicsEthnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: Mestizo 69.7%Montubio 18.0%White 7.6%Afro-Ecuadorian 4.3%Indigenous 0.1%Other 0.2%