Tosagua, Manabí, Ecuador Genealogy

Guide to Canton of Tosagua ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * Tosagua was elevated to an ecclesiastical parish, on December 8, 1628.
 * Since August 2, 1822, Tosagua was a civil parish belonging to Montecristi, five years later, by disposition of the Congress of Bogotá, it became part of the Portoviejo Canton, twenty-five years later with the creation of the Rocafuerte Canton, it passes as a parish to new canton.
 * The Tosagua Canton was created as a canton on January 25, 1984.
 * The Tosagua Canton has a population of approximately 36,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no online records for the Tosagua Canton.

Parish Records

 * 1565-2011 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1863-1928 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries

 * 1862-2019 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * Cementerio de Tosagua

Urban Parishes

 * Angel Pedro Giler
 * Bachillero
 * Tosagua