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Quito (Spanish pronunciation: ⓘ; Quechua: Kitu), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, [4] an active stratovolcano in the Andes.
Ecuador's capital and second largest city [contradictory] is Quito, [106] which is in the province of Pichincha in the Sierra region. It is the second-highest capital city with an elevation of 2,850 meters. Ecuador's largest city [contradictory] is Guayaquil, [107] in the Guayas Province.
Quito (capital) Riobamba; Rioverde; Rocafuerte; San Lorenzo; San Vicente; Santa Rosa; ... Media related to Cities in Ecuador at Wikimedia Commons This page was last ...
Situated in the "middle of the world," Ecuador’s capital, Quito, serves up a wealth of deep cultural experiences. We offer a roundup of the 10 best.
The capital is sometimes incorrectly stated as Rarotonga, the island on which Avarua is located. ... Ecuador: South America: Highest official capital (2,850 m). [5]
Delightful colonial cities, active volcanoes and sections of the Amazon await you in the land of the Equator
Ecuador. Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, 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.
The series of explosions began Wednesday night, when a car bomb exploded in Quito, Ecuador's capital, in an area where an office of the country’s corrections system was previously located. Two ...