Guayaquil's Great Fire

Identification and evaluation of sources
This investigation will focus on how did Guayaquil’s Great Fire affect the life of the citizens between 1896 and 1930 in order to analyze the consequences of Guayaquil’s Great Fire, which occurred in 1896. We are also going to focus in Guayaquil’s rebuilding and to what extend did citizen’s mentality helped the city rebirth in less than 30 years. In the first source, we have by first hand, the testimony of a man that outlived the fire. This will help us know the point of view of someone who saw directly the consequences of the fire. In the second source, we see a compilation of information that narrates, step by step, the fire, how it advanced, and how it affected the economy of Guayaquil.
Source: Extract from “Crónica del Gran Incendio acaecido en Guayaquil el 5 y 6 de Octubre de 1896” (Chronicle of the Great Fire happened in Guayaquil on October 5 and 6, 1896), wrote by Gónzales B., B., and published in 1896.
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I’ve always been interested in Guayaquil’s history, and I’ve always been in love with its architecture. So, when I first knew about the Great Fire, my heart kind of broke. We, as a city, lost so much, not just in an economy aspect but in cultural and social aspects, too. We lost incredible buildings, and invaluable objects (such as José Joaquin de Olmedo’s inkwell and pen). But, most important of all, and what I love the most about my city, my people and this specific piece of Guayaquil history, is the fact that people rise out of the (ashes) shadows. That they didn’t give up, and even in the darkest time, they’ll kept positive. They want they city back, and they did more than that: They improve it. They built a stronger city, a city that was ready to defeat every adversity that will come to them. They pass, from having absolutely nothing, to build the big city in which we