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Quito is divided into three areas, separated by hills: Central: houses the colonial old city. Southern: is mainly an industrial and working-class residential area. Northern: is the modern Quito, with high-rise buildings, shopping centers, the financial district, and a mix of upper-class, middle-class, and working-class residential areas.
Mountains in Ecuador Name Elevation m Range Notes Chimborazo: 6,310 Cordillera Occidental: Ecuador's highest mountain Cotopaxi [1] 5,897 Cordillera Oriental: Active Volcano Cayambe: 5,790 Cordillera Oriental Active Volcano Antisana: 5,758 Cordillera Oriental Active Volcano El Altar/Capac-Urcu 5,319 Cordillera Oriental Iliniza Sur: 5,248 ...
La Paz, Bolivia Quito, Ecuador Bogotá, Colombia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thimphu, Bhutan Asmara, Eritrea Sana'a, Yemen Mexico City, Mexico Tehran, Iran Kabul, Afghanistan Nairobi, Kenya Kathmandu, Nepal. This is a list of national capitals ordered by elevation. Higher elevations typically have social, economic, and architectural effects on cities ...
The following table shows the tallest buildings in Ecuador. Rank Building City Height [1] Number of floors Year 1: ... Quito: 117 m: 38: 1928 4: El Forum: Guayaquil ...
Average Height Town / City Country Population Est. Year 4,150 m (13,615 ft) El Alto Bolivia 1,184,942: 2014 4,090 m (13,419 ft) Potosí Bolivia 170,000: 2007 [1]: 3,836 m (12,585 ft)
These days, about 500 mountaineers attempt the summit each year, according to Santiago Granda, the Undersecretary of Promotion at Ecuador’s Ministry of Tourism. He says just over half of them ...
Pichincha is a stratovolcano in Ecuador.The capital Quito wraps around its eastern slopes.. The two highest peaks of the mountain are Wawa Pichincha (Kichwa wawa child, baby / small, [3] Spanish spelling Guagua Pichincha) (4,784 metres (15,696 ft)) and Ruku Pichincha (Kichwa ruku old person, [3] Spanish Rucu Pichincha) (4,698 metres (15,413 ft)).
The following is a list of the world's major cities (either capitals, more than one million inhabitants or an elevation of over 1,000 m [3,300 ft]) by elevation.In addition, the country, continental region, latitude and longitude are shown for all cities listed.