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The Quito Revolt of 1765, also known as the Rebellion of the Barrios or the Quito Insurrection, was an uprising and insurrection in Quito that temporarily overthrew the colonial Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada in the city from 1765 until 1766.
The Cotocollao Parish is a parish in northwest Quito, Ecuador. It is one of the biggest parishes of the city. It is one of the biggest parishes of the city. The use of the area is primarily residential , however it also has a very active commercial zone around the Avenida de La Prensa and has the "El Condado" shopping mall.
Santa Prisca is an electoral parish (parroquia electorale urban) or district of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. The parish was established as a result of the October 2004 political elections when the city was divided into 19 urban electoral parishes.
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Convento de San Francisco (Saint Francis Convent) (upper right of the photo) as seen from Itchimbía. Itchimbía is a hill in Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. [1] [2] It is surrounded to the east by Machángara River, a river that originates in the southern part of the city of Quito. Itchimbía is on the eastern/northeastern border of the ...
Calderón is a rural parish of Quito Canton, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.It lies northeast of the city of Quito, on Ecuador Highway 35 (designated by the Ecuadorian transit police as E-35), a north-to-south-running highway which is the Ecuadorian segment of the Pan-American Highway.
According to the 2007 estimates, it is 1,840,000. Of this, the population of the urban parishes (the city of Quito itself) was 1,399,378, and the population of the rural parishes (outside of the city of Quito but still within the canton) was 440,475. [2] The total population density of the canton is 439.8 inhabitants per km² (1139.1/mi²).
Set behind Hotel Quito, the neighborhood of Guápulo runs down the winding Camino de Orellana, from González Suárez to Calle de los Conquistadores, the main road out of Quito and to the neighboring suburbs. [2] [3] Often considered an artsy, bohemian neighborhood of Quito, Guápulo is home to many local artists and a couple of hippy cafés ...