The most beautiful beach in Ecuador. Isla Portete will remind you of the Caribbean with its white sands and turquoise waters.
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It's only a 3 minute drive from Mompiche and then a 50 cent boat ride to this gorgeous Ecuadorian beach that looks like it could be in Mexico. Soft white sands and beautiful warm water. You can stay overnight on Isla Portete but it's not necessary as it's close enough to be a day trip from Mompiche.
Although we went for the day I would love to stay overnight as the only sounds are the wind through the palm trees and the waves.
And if you're going to go eat anywhere try Comedor Karen but make sure Nellie is working.
Isla Portete is considered the first free settlement for Afro-Ecuadorians in all of the Americas.
During the times of slavery, people were kidnapped from Africa. And brought to these colonial settlements, a lot of them went to Peru to work in the gold mines. However, along the way, there were a lot of shipwrecks actually in the Esmeraldas area. In this case, it looks like there are 17 people that survived a shipwreck and then they settled here .
In the main square there is a statue to recognize this. This monument is of Alonso de Illescas. So this was a slave who took on his slave owner's name and but he did quite well and was a big part of that business.
So at one point, they were bringing slaves from Panama down to Peru to work in the gold and silver mines and it crashed, just off this island. And so both Alonso and 16 others made their way, they survived on this island. Now they’ve left this island. And that's because they thought that they were too much out in the open and that maybe the Spanish would come looking for them.
So they went deeper into Esmeraldas, into the mountains and the jungle there, the forest there.
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