Salango acquired legal status as a commune by in the No. 074 Agreement in the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock on October 30, 1979.
After a process of analysis and discussion of its historical past and identification, it was recorded in the Development Council for Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador CODENPE by Agreement 016 on the 19th of April in 2004, as a community of ancestral roots.
It has a communal territory of 2536 hectares. Its principal economic activity is fishing.
The Community of Salango of the Canton Puerto Lopez, Manabi Province, holds property rights to a territory about 2,536 hectares, is made up of the small towns of Salango and Rio Chico.
The communities on the south central coast of Ecuador including Salango, are descendants of the Pueblo Manta Huancavilca, with 5,000 years of history and culture. The first settlements belonged to the Valdivia culture, followed by Machalilla, Engoroy- Chorrera, Bahia, Guangala and culminated with the so-called Regional Integration Period Mante�a (800-1530 AD)
In 1526, there was the first contact between Spanish and native sailors of Salango. At that time there was a powerful chiefdom known as Salangome, which was the nucleus of a "league of merchants" that dominated the sea trade, devoting their trade to a large variety of seafood, including the shell "spondylus."
During the colonial era a religion unknown to our Indians was imposed. By a synod of 1535, the original language of Ecuador's coastal communities was abolished and the Spanish language imposed, which is why now there are only traces and words of our native language as colonche, vine, Tuzco, Sercapez, Valdivia, and Salango.
Due to the natural advantages they have, these communities have been prized by external interests that have consistently affected their territories, natural resources as well as cultural heritage and history.
In 1937 the Ecuadorian government enacted the Law of
