Salinas, Ecuador's largest coastal resort, offers one of the country's best real estate investment markets and most popular and most upscale beach lifestyle.

Its cantonal head is the town of Salinas, and is composed of the rural parishes Ancon, and Jose Luis Tamayo Anconcito (Muey).

The finds shown include human and animal figurines, ceremonial and utilitarian vessels, bottles, whistles, stone axes, beads and necklaces made of Spondylus shells, horns, and a variety of both cylindrical and flat seals.

The Guancavilcas large rafts were in their black-colored vessels, hands and stone metate for grinding grains, spherical stone weights for nets and pointed to the divers who were also used to hit and release Spondylus shells attached to rocks; copper objects such as axes and hatchets handle coins and Spondylus shell accounts, circular and rectangular shapes that were marketed along with the copper material, in Mexico and Peru, are evidence of the last thousand years of navigation our country.

The beach extends for approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) and is relatively wide, with white to gray sand, medium waves and a prevalent inland breeze.

Although the city is located in a tropical zone near the Equator, the weather closely resembles a subtropical climate, being very warm and dry rather than hot, humid, and rainy.