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  2. Quito - Wikipedia

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    It is believed to be one of only a few in the world with human inhabitants. Quito Zoo, [72] located near the rural parish of Guayllabamba, about 20 km (12 mi) outside Quito, has the biggest collection of native fauna in Ecuador, including several kinds of animals that are sometimes targeted in Ecuador in the illegal fur trade. The Zoo works in ...

  3. Ciudad Mitad del Mundo - Wikipedia

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    The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located at San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, 26 km (16 mi) north of the center of Quito.

  4. List of capital cities by elevation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Geography of Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador is located on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2,237 km of coastline. It has 2237 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north (708 km border) and Peru in the east and south (1,529 km border). 283,561 km 2 (109,484 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km 2 (2,595 sq mi) water. Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in South America ...

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    World Heritage Sites; Site Image Location Year listed UNESCO criteria Description Machalilla National Park: Manabí: 1998 (mixed) The national park is located on the coast of Ecuador. Large parts are covered by dry tropical forest. There are also several archaeological sites in the area, related to the pre-Columbian Machalilla culture. [11]

  7. Portal:Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Rumicucho is a pucara (hilltop fortress) located 23 kilometres (14 mi) in a straight-line distance north of the city of Quito at an elevation of 2,401 metres (7,877 ft). Rumicucho in the Quechua language means "stone corner", perhaps referring to its strategic location between the territory of the Yumbo people to the east and the chiefdoms of ...

  8. Climbing the world’s other highest mountain – no ... - AOL

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    The reason lies in Chimborazo’s location, which is 1.5 degrees south of the equator. ... all of which are located further from the equator. Ecuador recently latched on to this statistical quirk ...

  9. Ecuador - Wikipedia

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    Ecuador, [a] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [b] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland.

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