Salitre Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Guayas Province. Its capital is the town of El Salitre. Its population at the 2001 census was 50,379.DemographicsEthnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: Montubio 79.5%Mestizo 15.9%Afro-Ecuadorian 2.6%White 1.8%Indigenous 0.1%Other 0.1%