Ambato
Ambato is a city located in the central Andean valley of Ecuador. Lying on the banks of the Ambato River, the city also sits beneath several tall mountains.
- Type: City with 165,000 residents
- Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Tungurahua Province
- Also known as: “Ambato, Ecuador”, “Ciudad de las Flores y las Frutas”, “Cuna de los Tres Juanes”, “Juan Bautista de Ambato”, “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”, “Tierrita Linda”, and “امباتو، اکوادور”
- Historically known as: “San Juan de Ambato”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Estadio Bellavista and Parque Cevallos.
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Elevation
Building
Ambato
- Category: locality
- Location: Ambato Canton, Tungurahua Province, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-1.2422° or 1° 14′ 32″ south
Longitude
-78.6288° or 78° 37′ 44″ west
Population
165,000
Elevation
2,597 metres (8,520 feet)
IATA airport code
ATF
UN/LOCODE
EC ATF
Open location code
67C3Q95C+4F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ambato” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أمباتو”
- Armenian: “Ամբատո”
- Asturian: “Ambato”
- Basque: “Ambato”
- Belarusian: “Амбата”
- Bengali: “আমবাতো”
- Bosnian: “Ambato”
- Catalan: “Ambato”
- Cebuano: “Ambato (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Ambato”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Ambato”
- Chinese: “安巴托”
- Chuvash: “Амбато”
- Croatian: “Ambato”
- Czech: “Ambato”
- Danish: “Ambato”
- Dutch: “Ambato”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امباتو”
- Esperanto: “Ambato”
- Finnish: “Ambato”
- French: “Ambato”
- Galician: “Ambato”
- Georgian: “ამბატო”
- German: “Ambato”
- Greek: “Αμπάτο”
- Gujarati: “અંબાટો”
- Hindi: “अम्बातो”
- Indonesian: “Ambato”
- Italian: “Ambato”
- Japanese: “アンバート”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಬಾಟೊ”
- Korean: “암바토”
- Latvian: “Ambato”
- Lithuanian: “Ambatas”
- Malay: “Ambato”
- Marathi: “अंबाटो”
- Northern Frisian: “Ambato”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ambato”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ambato”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Juan de Ambato”
- Norwegian: “Ambato”
- Persian: “آمباتو، اکوادور”
- Persian: “آمباتو”
- Polish: “Ambato”
- Portuguese: “Ambato”
- Quechua: “Ampatu llaqta”
- Romanian: “Ambato”
- Russian: “Амбато”
- Serbian: “Амбато”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ambato (Ekvador)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ambato”
- Sinhala: “අම්බාටෝ, ඉක්වදෝරය”
- Sinhala: “අම්බාටෝ”
- Slovak: “San Juan de Ambato”
- Slovenian: “Ambato”
- Spanish: “Ambato”
- Swedish: “Ambato”
- Tagalog: “Ambato”
- Tamil: “அம்பாடோ”
- Tatar: “Амбато”
- Telugu: “అంబటో”
- Thai: “อัมบาโต”
- Turkish: “Ambato, Ekvador”
- Turkish: “Ambato”
- Ukrainian: “Амбато”
- Urdu: “امباتو، ایکواڈور”
- Venetian: “Ambato”
- Vietnamese: “Ambato”
- Volapük: “Ambato”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ambato”
- Welsh: “Ambato”
- Western Panjabi: “امباتو”
- Wu Chinese: “安巴托”
- “Ambato”
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