Quito

Quito
—  Caipital ceety o Ecuador  —
San Francisco de Quito
Banner Seal
Eik-name(s): Luz de América (Licht o Americae), Carita de Dios (God's Face), Ciudad de los Cielos (Ceety o the heavens)
Quito Location o Quito athin Ecuador
Coordinates: 00°15′00″S 78°35′00″W
Kintra	Ecuador
Province	Pichincha
Canton	Quito
Foondation	6 December 1534
Foonder	Sebastián de Benalcázar
Named for	Quitu
Urban parishes	32 urban parishes Argelia, La Belisario Quevedo Carcelén Centro Histórico Chilibulo Chillogallo Chimbacalle Cochapamba Comité del Pueblo Concepción, La Condado, El Cotocollao Ecuatoriana, La Ferroviaria, La Guamaní Inca, El Iñaquito Itchimbía Jipijapa Kennedy Libertad, La Magdalena Mariscal Sucre Mena, La Ponceano Puengasí Quitumbe Rumipamba San Bartolo San Juan Solanda Turubamba
Govrenment
- Govrenin body	Municipality o Quito
- Mayor	Augusto Barrera
- Ceety cooncil	List of councilmembers Luis Caicedo Fernando Carrión Luz Elena Coloma Sergio Garnica María Hernández Carmen Elena de Janón Carlos Jaramillo Javier Jiménez Indira Medina Gonzalo Ortiz Ramiro Pérez Pablo Ponce Patricia Ruiz Patricio Alejandro Ubidia Macarena Valarezo
Aurieapprox.
- Caipital ceety o Ecuador	324 km2 (125.1 sq mi)
- Watter	0 km2 (0 sq mi)
- Metro	4,204 km2 (1,623.2 sq mi)
Hicht	2,850 m (9,350 ft)
Indwallers (2011)
- Caipital ceety o Ecuador	2,697,698
- Densitie	8,326.2/km2 (21,564.8/sq mi)
- Metro	3,342,201
- Metro  densitie	795/km2 (2,059.1/sq mi)
- Demonym	Quiteño(-a)
Time zone	ECT (UTC-5)
Postal code	EC1701 (new format), P01 (old format)
Aurie code(s)	(0)2
Wabsteid	http://www.quito.gov.ec

San Francisco de Quito, maist aften cried Quito (Spainyie pronunciation: [ˈkito]), is the caipital ceety o Ecuador in northwastren Sooth Americae. It is locatit in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastren slopes o Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes muntains. Wi a population o 1,397,698 accordin tae the last census (2001), an, as estimatit bi the municipality, approximately 1,504,991 in 2005, Quito is the seicont maist populous ceety in Ecuador, efter Guayaquil. It is an aa the caipital o the Pichincha province an the seat o Metropolitan Destrict o Quito. The canton recordit a population o 1,842,201 residents in the 2001 naitional census. In 2008 the ceety wis designatit as the heidquarters o the Union o Sooth American Naitions.

The elevation o the ceety's central square (Plaza de La Independencia or Plaza Grande) is 2,800 m (aboot 9,186 ft), makin Quito the seicont-heichest administrative caipital ceety in the warld (efter La Paz, Bolivie), an the heichest legal caipital (ahead o Sucre, an aa in Bolivie, an Bogotá, Colombie).

The central square o Quito is locatit aboot 25 km (15 miles) sooth o the equator; the ceety itsel extends tae athin aboot 1 km (0.6 miles) o zero latitude. A monument an museum markin the general location o the equator is kent locally as la mitad del mundo (the middle o the warld), tae avoid confusion, as the wird ecuador is Spainyie for equator.

Quito, alang wi Krakow, wur the first Warld Cultural Heritage Sites declared bi UNESCO in 1978.

Twin touns an sister ceeties

See an aw: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Sooth Americae

Quito is twinned wi:

• Madrid, Spain
• Buenos Aires, Argentinae
• Bogotá, Colombie
• Managua, Nicaragua
• Louisville, Kentucky, USA
• Coral Gables, USA
• Vancouver, Canadae
• Toronto, Canadae
• La Paz, Bolivie
• Dubai, UAE
• Buxton, Unitit Kinrick
• Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Kraków, Poland

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