La Rotonda, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Photo of the Week - 05/27/2007
The Rotonda on Guayaquil's Malecon esplanade commemorates the historic meeting between Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín on July 26, 1822 in Guayaquil to discuss strategy for the continuing efforts to free most of the South American continent from Spain.
Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín met privately. No one knows the words they exchanged, but the result of their discussion left Simón Bolívar as general in chief and San Martín retiring to private life.
Details of the statues designed by the Spanish sculptor, Jose Antonio Homs, and erected in 1937:
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Photos displayed with the kind permission of Peter and Jackie Main.
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