Salinas is a city located in Guayas, Ecuador, by the Pacific Ocean. It is the seat of Salinas Canton, the westernmost canton in Ecuador. The city is an important tourist center.

Attractions

Salinas, is a small place offering the same services a big city offers.
Salinas is the starting point to the 'Route of the Sun' so there are quite a few tourist resorts and attractions that can be visited.
Salinas has one of the most developed tourism infrastructures on the coast of Ecuador and offers the modern comforts of a resort town, and also offers whale-watching opportunities.
There is a vast diversity of restaurants and cafeterias. On the Malecon, just two blocks away from the Barceló Colon Miramar, one can visit the Naval Archeological Museum. This small museum displays the vast archeological richness of the region with samples of the Ecuadorian pre-Hispanic history.
On the highway from Guayaquil to Salinas one can find the museum managed by the community descendants of the Valdivia culture. The museum is ideal to observe the functioning of archeological investigations. Pictures and illustrations show the geological and cultural history of the place. Next to the museum is a 100 year old house made of caña guadua (wooden cane).

Sports

Salinas Ecuador hosts world deep sea sport-fishing competitions, mainly for Tuna, Blue Martin and Black Marlin, and Sailfish is also popular.
Many world records have been obtained here.
The scenic bay is full of jet skiers, water skiers, hang-gliders, sky divers and a plethora of various sized yachts anchored in the bay adjacent to the yacht club.