El Comercio (Ecuador)
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Grupo El Comercio C. A. |
Editor | Fernando Larenas |
Editor-in-chief | Hernan Ramos |
Founded | 1906 |
Language | Spanish |
Headquarters | Avenida Pedro Vicente Maldonado 11515. Quito, Ecuador |
Circulation |
68.000 Daily 152.000 Sunday |
Website | El Comercio |
El Comercio is a daily Ecuadorian newspaper in Quito. It covers news from inside and outside the country, although its focus is primarily on the former, especially on Quito, Guayaquil and occasionally Cuenca. It competes against El Universo for the largest print distribution in Ecuador.
The paper was founded on January 1, 1906 in Quito, Ecuador by Celiano Monge and brothers César Mantilla Jácome and Carlos Mantilla Jácome. The paper has remained in the Mantilla family, and currently, the President of the newspaper is Jorge Fabrizio Acquaviva Mantilla, and the Publisher is Guadalupe Mantilla de Acquaviva.
The main sections and supplements are Politics, Opinion, Law, Business, Sports, Quito, Ecuador, World, Society, Culture, Family, Education, Blogs, among others.