Pichincha
Pichincha is a province of Ecuador located in the northern Sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura and Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo and Sucumbíos to the east, and Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: province of Ecuador with 2,580,000 residents
- Description: province of Ecuador
- Also known as: “EC-P”, “Pichincha Province”, and “Picjhincha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Terminal terrestre Carcelén and Colegio Americano de Quito.
Terminal terrestre Carcelén
Bus station
Photo: Ceancata, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Terminal terrestre Carcelén is a bus station.
Colegio Americano de Quito
School
The Fundación Colegio Americano de Quito or Colegio Americano de Quito is a private college preparatory school in Quito, Ecuador. In 1940 it was founded by the former president of Ecuador and the president of the Organization of American States Galo Plaza Lasso, and Boaz Long.
Cimborio ‘Virgen Del Cisne’
Church
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Cimborio ‘Virgen Del Cisne’ is a church, which is situated 7 km east of Pichincha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calacalí and Chaupicruz.
Calacalí
Village
Photo: Alfonfin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Calacalí is a rural parish of Quito Canton, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. It is northwest of Casitagua Volcano and southwest of Pululagua Volcano. In the central square of Calacalí there is an equator monument. Calacalí is situated 9 km north of Pichincha.
Chaupicruz
Neighborhood
Chaupicruz is an electoral parish or district of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. The parish was established as a result of the October 2004 political elections when the city was divided into 19 urban electoral parishes. Chaupicruz is situated 9 km south of Pichincha.
Pichincha
- Location: Ecuador, South America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Pichincha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بشنتشا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بيتشينتشا”
- Armenian: “Պիչինչա”
- Basque: “Pichincha probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Пічынча”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Пічынча”
- Bengali: “পিচিঞ্চা প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Пичинча”
- Catalan: “Província de Pichincha”
- Cebuano: “Provincia de Pichincha”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Pichincha”
- Chinese: “Pichincha Séng”
- Chinese: “皮欽查省”
- Chinese: “皮钦查省”
- Danish: “Pichincha Province”
- Dutch: “Pichincha”
- Esperanto: “Pichincha”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Pichincha”
- Finnish: “Pichincha”
- Finnish: “Pichinchan provinssi”
- French: “Pichincha”
- French: “Province de Pichincha”
- Galician: “Provincia de Pichincha”
- Georgian: “პიჩინჩის პროვინცია”
- German: “Pichincha”
- German: “Provinz Pichincha”
- Greek: “Πιτσίντσα”
- Gujarati: “પિચિન્ચા પ્રાંત”
- Hindi: “पिचिंचा प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Pichincha tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Pichincha”
- Italian: “provincia del Pichincha”
- Italian: “Provincia del Pichincha”
- Japanese: “ピチンチャ州”
- Japanese: “ピチンチャ県”
- Kannada: “ಪಿಚಿಂಚಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “피친차주”
- Ladino: “Pichincha”
- Latvian: “Pičinčas province”
- Lithuanian: “Pičinčos provincija”
- Malay: “Pichincha Province”
- Maltese: “Pichincha”
- Marathi: “पिचिनचा प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pichincha Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Pichincha (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Pichincha”
- Northern Sami: “Pichincha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pichincha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Pichincha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pichinchaprovinsen”
- Norwegian: “Pichincha”
- Ossetian: “Пичинчæ (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Пичинчæ”
- Persian: “استان پیچینچا”
- Polish: “Pichincha”
- Polish: “Prowincja Pichincha”
- Portuguese: “Pichincha”
- Portuguese: “Província de Pichincha”
- Quechua: “Pichincha marka”
- Quechua: “Pichincha”
- Russian: “Пичинча”
- Scots: “Pichincha Province”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pichincha (provincija)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pichincha”
- Sinhala: “පිචින්චා පළාත, ඉක්වදෝරය”
- Sinhala: “පිචින්චා පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Pinchincha”
- Spanish: “Pichincha”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Pichincha”
- Swedish: “Pichincha”
- Tamil: “பிசைஞ்சா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “పిచించా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “పిచించా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปิชินชา”
- Turkish: “Pichincha ili”
- Turkish: “Pichincha”
- Ukrainian: “Пічинча”
- Ukrainian: “Пічінча”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Пічінча”
- Urdu: “پیچینچا صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Pichincha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pichincha”
- Wayuu: “Pichiincha”
- Welsh: “Talaith Pichincha”
- Western Armenian: “Փիչինիչա”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پچینچا”
- Wu Chinese: “皮钦查省”
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