Guano Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Chimborazo Province. Its capital is the town of Guano. Its population at the 2001 census was 37,888...

Guano (Spanish from Quechua: wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. Guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of...

Guano is a location in the Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. It is the seat of the Guano Canton. The town is well known for its handmade leather products...

(1964) Guano Canton, a subdivision of Chimborazo Province, Ecuador Guano, Ecuador, a town which is the administrative center of Guano Canton, in Chimborazo...

were claimed as insular areas on behalf of the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. These claims were made by private individuals to the...

Enderbury Island, also known as Ederbury Island or Guano Island, is a small, uninhabited atoll 63 km ESE of Kanton Island in the Pacific Ocean at 3°08′S...

formed the United States Guano Company to exploit the guano on Howland Island, with this claim being recognised under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of 1856....

arrangement only covered Canton and Enderbury islands; the remaining Phoenix Islands were still claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act, but aside...

the United States laid claim to all the Phoenix Islands under the 1856 Guano Islands Act. However, when Kiribati became an independent republic in 1979...

The Cantons of Ecuador are the second-level subdivisions of Ecuador, below the provinces. There are 221 cantons in the country, of which three are not...

Cotacachi y Cayambe. Chimborazo Province. Capital: Riobamba. Cantones: Riobamba, Ambato, Guano, Guaranda, Alausí y Macas. 0°13′S 78°31′W / 0.217°S 78.517°W...

cessation of claims, ended the Canton and Enderbury Islands Condominium, which had begun under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. In Art. 3 the US have...

mid-19th century through guano mining conducted by private American companies under the Guano Islands Act. After several decades, guano resources became depleted...

S. Coast Guard to arrange relief supplies. Canton and Enderbury Islands Canton Island Airport List of Guano Island claims Treaty of Tarawa Wikimedia Commons...

under the Guano Islands Act. Taylor assigned his interest in Sarah Ann Island (referred to as Sarah Anne) and the other islands to the U.S. Guano Company...

the guano on Lady Elliot Island, Wreck Reefs, Swain Reefs, Raine Island, Bramble Cay, Brampton Shoal, and Pilgrim Island to the Anglo-Australian Guano Company...

(6,267 m), Ecuador's highest mountain. The province is divided into 10 cantons. The following table lists each with its population at the time of the...

Great Republic. Later, the ship served in the guano trade, sailing "from Baker's Island with a cargo of guano to Hampton Roads in 99 days," between August...

United States Guano Company, under the name "Dangers Rock," along with a number of other islands. The claim was made under the U.S. Guano Islands Act of...

Congress enacted the Guano Islands Act that year, authorizing the president to take possession of unclaimed islands to mine guano. The U.S. has taken control...

Orona, McKean Island, Manra, Rawaki, Canton Island and Enderbury Island: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Kiribati....

in response to growing American influence through the Guano Islands Act, especially on Canton (later Kanton), where a commercial seaplane base was being...

seem to have been worked for guano, and was apparently not claimed (unlike the other Phoenix Islands) by American guano diggers. The British flag was...

& Co. of New London, Connecticut, under the American Guano Islands Act. No record exists of guano deposits ever being exploited, however. On 28 May 1892...

the guano on Lady Elliot Island, Wreck Reef, Swain Reefs, Raine Island, Bramble Cay, Brampton Shoal, and Pilgrim Island to the Anglo Australian Guano Company...

Vier, Liz Libido, Subzonic, Björn Again, The Corrs, Alanis Morissette, Guano Apes, Betty Legler, Bananafishbones, Polo Hofer Und Schmetterband, Echt...

of human blood. Researchers reported in 2013 that 'bird soil' containing guano droppings from bird houses were able to turn white edible bird's nests red...

Winterjam was held in the city and bands such as Sum 41, Crazy Town, and Guano Apes performed during this event. Davos is part of the rail network of the...

States began expanding beyond North America in 1856 with the passage of the Guano Islands Act, causing many small and uninhabited, but economically important...

contracts to private Chinese merchants for the development and exploitation of guano and other resources on those islands and protesting against foreign nations'...