Manabi is a province rich in various resources. The contrasts are marked strongly in its 22 cantons: the sea and mountains; the ancestral culture of the chola and montubia population, which surprises with a thousand legends; , its typical, very appreciated by locals and foreign food crafts ... But the inhabitants of the canton Bolivar have turned their gaze to the ground, rich forever and, in this context, have been identified with agriculture and livestock. It is worth remembering that there were times when this county was a producer and exporter of rubber, balsa wood, tagua, cacao and cotton; reduced production in recent decades, for reasons known to all; but today, with the Presa La Esperanza and the Carrizal-Chone project men and women with renewed vigor, fincan, again, his illusion on earth.
This required, in Calceta, the presence of a center of higher learning in the agricultural and livestock areas, so that the student population, with difficulty moving to universities outside the region, could reach a degree, in order to serve more later, not only to the canton, but the entire region.Efforts, a long journey began in Congress and then in other instances since 1995. This creates the TOP AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Manabi ITSAM by Law No.. 116, published in Official Gazette No.. 935, on April 29, 1996.Three years later, the National Congress passed the Reform Act that transformed the Agricultural Technological Institute Superior of Manabi, ITSAM in Polytechnic School AGRICULTURAL Manabi ESPAM whose Law 99-25 was published in Official Gazette on April 30, 1999. Agricultural Polytechnic School of Manabi born as a legal entity under public law, autonomous, governed by the State Constitution, Law on Higher Education, its Constitution and Regulations, to prepare the Ecuadorian youth and make it professional, as required by the natural resources around them.