This first settlement was founded around 1760, but they were faced with harsh weather and had difficulty connecting to Machala due to the constant rising of the Jubones River —in Quechua, “devourer of men”— so they were forced to move to another place.

So the story was told in 1822 when Mr. Gabino Serrano, great grandfather of Andrés Corsino García, had the fortune of lodging the Marshal Antonio José de Sucre in his house as he advanced with the liberating troops, who sealed the independence of the country in the Victory of Pichincha on May 24 of the same year.

Pasaje grew rapidly with the immigration of people from Cuenca, Loja and Zaruma, attracted by the fertility of its land and notable progress.

The priest Dr. José Ochoa León, the deputy for El Oro Province in that year, and a close friend of President Cordero, was the one who finally made possible the cantonization of Pasaje in 1894.

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