Andean Highlands
Tungurahua Province
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Ambato

Ambato is a city located in the central valley of . Lying on the banks of the , the city also sits beneath several tall mountains.
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  • Type: City with 165,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ecuador, capital of the Tungurahua Province
  • Also known as: “Ambato, Ecuador”, “Juan Bautista de Ambato”, and “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Historically known as: “San Juan de Ambato”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Bellavista and Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Elevation.

Stadium
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is a multi-use in Ambato, . It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Mushuc Runa, Macará, and Técnico Universitario.

Church
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The Also Ambato Cathedral is the name that receives a religious building that belongs to the Catholic Church and is located between Bolivar and Montalvo streets in front of the Juan Montalvo Park of the city of Ambato capital of the province of Tungurahua in the center of the South American country of .

Park
Photo: Parque Cevallos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Ambato

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
United Nations Location Code
EC ATF
Open location code
67C3Q95C+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249420749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3660689
Wiki­data ID
Q210161
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ambato” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Ambato”
  • Arabic: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Arabic: “أمباتو”
  • Armenian: “Ambato”
  • Armenian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Armenian: “Ամբատո”
  • Asturian: “Ambato”
  • Basque: “Ambato”
  • Belarusian: “Ambato”
  • Belarusian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Belarusian: “Амбата”
  • Bengali: “Ambato”
  • Bengali: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Bengali: “আমবাতো”
  • Bosnian: “Ambato”
  • Bosnian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Catalan: “Ambato”
  • Catalan: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Catalan: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Cebuano: “Ambato (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Ambato”
  • Cebuano: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Ambato”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Chinese: “Ambato”
  • Chinese: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Chinese: “安巴托”
  • Chuvash: “Амбато”
  • Croatian: “Ambato”
  • Croatian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Czech: “Ambato”
  • Czech: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Danish: “Ambato”
  • Danish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Dutch: “Ambato”
  • Dutch: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Dutch: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امباتو”
  • Esperanto: “Ambato”
  • Esperanto: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Finnish: “Ambato”
  • Finnish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • French: “Ambato”
  • French: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Galician: “Ambato”
  • Galician: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Georgian: “Ambato”
  • Georgian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Georgian: “ამბატო”
  • German: “Ambato”
  • German: “Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • German: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Greek: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Greek: “Αμπάτο”
  • Gujarati: “Ambato”
  • Gujarati: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Gujarati: “અંબાટો”
  • Hindi: “Ambato”
  • Hindi: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Hindi: “एम्बाटो”
  • Indonesian: “Ambato”
  • Indonesian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Italian: “Ambato”
  • Italian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Japanese: “Ambato”
  • Japanese: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Japanese: “アンバート”
  • Kannada: “Ambato”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಬಾಟೊ”
  • Korean: “Ambato”
  • Korean: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Korean: “암바토”
  • Latvian: “Ambato”
  • Latvian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Lithuanian: “Ambatas”
  • Lithuanian: “Ambato”
  • Lithuanian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Malay: “Ambato”
  • Malay: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Marathi: “Ambato”
  • Marathi: “अंबाटो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ambato”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ambato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ambato”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Norwegian: “Ambato”
  • Persian: “Ambato”
  • Persian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Persian: “آمباتو، اکوادور”
  • Persian: “آمباتو”
  • Persian: “امباتو، اکوادور”
  • Polish: “Ambato”
  • Polish: “Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Polish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Polish: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Portuguese: “Ambato”
  • Portuguese: “Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Portuguese: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Portuguese: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Quechua: “Ambato”
  • Quechua: “Ampatu llaqta”
  • Quechua: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Romanian: “Ambato”
  • Romanian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Russian: “Ambato”
  • Russian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Russian: “Амбато”
  • Serbian: “Амбато”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ambato (Ekvador)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ambato”
  • Sinhala: “Ambato”
  • Sinhala: “අම්බාටෝ, ඉක්වදෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “අම්බාටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Ambato”
  • Slovak: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Slovak: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Slovenian: “Ambato”
  • Spanish: “Ambato”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de las Flores y las Frutas”
  • Spanish: “Cuna de los Tres Juanes”
  • Spanish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Spanish: “Tierrita Linda”
  • Swedish: “Ambato”
  • Swedish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Swedish: “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Tagalog: “Ambato”
  • Tamil: “Ambato”
  • Tamil: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Tamil: “அம்பாடோ”
  • Tatar: “Ambato”
  • Tatar: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Tatar: “Амбато”
  • Telugu: “Ambato”
  • Telugu: “అంబటో”
  • Thai: “Ambato”
  • Thai: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Thai: “อัมบาโต”
  • Turkish: “Ambato, Ekvador”
  • Turkish: “Ambato”
  • Turkish: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Ukrainian: “Ambato”
  • Ukrainian: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Ukrainian: “Амбато”
  • Urdu: “Ambato”
  • Urdu: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Urdu: “امباتو، ایکواڈور”
  • Venetian: “Ambato”
  • Vietnamese: “Ambato”
  • Vietnamese: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Volapük: “Ambato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ambato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Juan de Ambato”
  • Welsh: “Ambato”
  • Welsh: “San Juan Bautista de Ambato”
  • Western Panjabi: “امباتو”
  • Wu Chinese: “安巴托”
  • “Ambato”

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