Otavalo
Otavalo is a city in the North of Ecuador. It has about 50,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the canton of the same name. Otavalo is world-famous for its indigenous population, the Otavalos, many of which are travelling around the world to sell their famous handicrafts or play in Andean Folk music groups.Photo: Bcasterline, Public domain.
Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 32,300 residents
- Description: city of Imbabura Province, Ecuador
- Also known as: “Otovalo” and “San Luis de Otavalo”
Otavalo
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Otavalo, Otavalo Canton, Imbabura, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
0.2295° or 0° 13′ 46″ northLongitude
-78.2621° or 78° 15′ 44″ westPopulation
32,300Elevation
2,532 metres (8,307 feet)Open location code
67G36PHQ+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 249596377OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3653693Wikidata ID
Q1020794
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Otavalo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Otavalo”
- Arabic: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Arabic: “اوتابالو”
- Asturian: “Otavalo”
- Basque: “Otavalo”
- Catalan: “Otavalo”
- Catalan: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Cebuano: “Otavalo”
- Cebuano: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Otavalo”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Chinese: “Otavalo”
- Chinese: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Chinese: “奧塔瓦洛”
- Dutch: “Otavalo”
- Dutch: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوتابالو”
- Esperanto: “Otavalo”
- Esperanto: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Finnish: “Otavalo”
- Finnish: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- French: “Otavalo Ecuador”
- French: “Otavalo”
- French: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Galician: “Otavalo”
- Galician: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- German: “Otavalo”
- German: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Irish: “Otavalo”
- Irish: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Italian: “Otavalo”
- Italian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Lithuanian: “Otavalas”
- Lithuanian: “Otavalo”
- Lithuanian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Persian: “Otavalo”
- Persian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Persian: “اوتاوالو”
- Polish: “Otavalo”
- Polish: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Portuguese: “Otavalo”
- Portuguese: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Quechua: “Otavalo”
- Quechua: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Quechua: “Utawalu”
- Romanian: “Otavalo”
- Romanian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Russian: “Otavalo”
- Russian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Russian: “Отавало”
- Spanish: “Otavalo”
- Spanish: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Swedish: “Otavalo”
- Swedish: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Ukrainian: “Otavalo”
- Ukrainian: “San Luis de Otavalo”
- Ukrainian: “Отавало”
- “Otavalo”
- “San Luis de Otavalo”
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