Quito
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in 1534 on the ruins of an ancient Inca city. Quito's Old City is the largest in the Americas and was one of the first UNESCO World Heritage Sites, recognized as the largest and most intact colonial city center remaining in the Americas.
- Email: serviciosciudadanos@quito.gob.ec
- Type: City with 2,670,000 residents
- Description: capital of Ecuador
- Also known as: “Kitu” and “Quito, Ecuador”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palacio de Carondelet and City of Quito.
Palacio de Carondelet
Government office
Carondelet Palace is the seat of government of the Republic of Ecuador, located in Quito. Access is by the public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande, around which are also the Archbishop's Palace, Municipal Palace, Hotel Plaza Grande, and Metropolitan Cathedral.
El Panecillo
Peak
Quito
- Category: locality
- Location: Quito, Quito Canton, Pichincha, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.2202° or 0° 13′ 13″ south
Longitude
-78.5123° or 78° 30′ 44″ west
Population
2,670,000
Elevation
2,854 metres (9,364 feet)
IATA airport code
UIO
United Nations Location Code
EC UIO
Open location code
67F3QFHQ+W3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Adyghe to Zulu—“Quito” goes by many names.
- Adyghe: “Кито”
- Afrikaans: “Quito”
- Albanian: “Kuito”
- Amharic: “ኪቶ”
- Arabic: “كيتو”
- Aragonese: “Quito”
- Armenian: “Կիտո”
- Asturian: “Quitu”
- Aymara: “Kitu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kito”
- Balinese: “Quito”
- Bashkir: “Кито”
- Basque: “Quito”
- Belarusian: “Кіта”
- Bengali: “কিতো”
- Bengali: “কুইটো”
- Bosnian: “Quito”
- Breton: “Quito”
- Bulgarian: “Кито”
- Burmese: “ကီတိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Quito”
- Cebuano: “Quito (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “Quito”
- Central Kanuri: “Quito”
- Central Kurdish: “کیتۆ”
- Chavacano: “Quito”
- Chechen: “Кито”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Quito”
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “Quitu”
- Chinese: “Quito”
- Chinese: “基多”
- Chuvash: “Кито”
- Croatian: “Quito”
- Czech: “Quito”
- Danish: “Quito”
- Dimli (individual language): “Quito”
- Dutch: “Quito”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيتو”
- Esperanto: “Kito”
- Estonian: “Quito”
- Extremaduran: “Quitu”
- Fiji Hindi: “Quito”
- Finnish: “Quito”
- French: “Quito”
- French: “San Francisco de Quito”
- Galician: “Quito”
- Georgian: “კიტო”
- German: “Quito”
- German: “Quito/Ecuador”
- Greek: “Κίτο”
- Greek: “Σαν Φρανσίσκο ντε Κίτο”
- Guarani: “Kíto”
- Guarani: “Quito”
- Gujarati: “ક્વિટો”
- Haitian: “Kito”
- Hakka Chinese: “Quito”
- Hausa: “Quito”
- Hawaiian: “Quito”
- Hebrew: “קיטו”
- Hindi: “क्विटो”
- Hindi: “क्वीटो”
- Hungarian: “Quito”
- Icelandic: “Quito”
- Ido: “Quito”
- Iloko: “Quito”
- Inari Sami: “Quito”
- Indonesian: “Quito”
- Interlingua: “Quito”
- Interlingue: “Quito”
- Irish: “Quito”
- Italian: “Quito”
- Japanese: “キト”
- Javanese: “Quito”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಟೋ”
- Kazakh: “Кито қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Кито”
- Kinyarwanda: “Quito”
- Kirghiz: “Кито”
- Korean: “키토”
- Kotava: “Quito”
- Kurdish: “Quito”
- Ladino: “Kito”
- Latin: “Quitum”
- Latvian: “Kito”
- Latvian: “Kitu”
- Ligurian: “Quito”
- Lingala: “Quito”
- Lithuanian: “Kitas”
- Livvi: “Kito”
- Lombard: “Quito”
- Luxembourgish: “Quito”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Quito”
- Macedonian: “Кито”
- Malagasy: “Quito”
- Malay: “Quito”
- Malayalam: “ക്വിറ്റോ”
- Maltese: “Quito”
- Maori: “Quito”
- Marathi: “कितो”
- Marathi: “क्वितो”
- Mazanderani: “کیتو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Quito”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Quito”
- Minangkabau: “Quito”
- Mingrelian: “კიტო”
- Moksha: “Кита”
- Moksha: “Кито”
- Mongolian: “Кито”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كيطو”
- Narom: “Qùito”
- Nauru: “Quito”
- Northern Frisian: “Quito”
- Northern Luri: “کیتو”
- Northern Sami: “Quito”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Quito”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quito”
- Norwegian: “Quito”
- Novial: “Kito”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Quito”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kītūn”
- Ossetian: “Кито”
- Panjabi: “ਕੀਤੋ”
- Papiamento: “Quito”
- Persian: “کیتو”
- Piemontese: “Quito”
- Polish: “Quito”
- Portuguese: “Quito, Equador”
- Portuguese: “Quito”
- Pushto: “کیتو”
- Quechua: “Kitu”
- Romanian: “Quito”
- Romansh: “Quito”
- Russian: “Кито”
- Sakizaya: “kitu”
- Sardinian: “Quito”
- Saterfriesisch: “Quito”
- Scots: “Quito”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Quito”
- Serbian: “Кито”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Quito”
- Shona: “Quito”
- Sicilian: “Quito”
- Silesian: “Quito”
- Sindhi: “ڪيوٽو”
- Sinhala: “ක්විටෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Quito”
- Slovak: “Quito”
- Slovenian: “Kito”
- Slovenian: “Quito”
- Somali: “Quito”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیتو”
- Spanish: “Carita de Dios”
- Spanish: “Luz de América”
- Spanish: “Mitad del Mundo”
- Spanish: “Quito”
- Spanish: “Quitu”
- Swahili: “Quito”
- Swedish: “Quito”
- Swiss German: “Quito”
- Tagalog: “Quito”
- Tajik: “Кито”
- Talysh: “Kito”
- Tamil: “கித்தோ”
- Tamil: “குயிடோ”
- Tamil: “க்வீடோ”
- Tatar: “Кито”
- Telugu: “కీటో”
- Thai: “กีโต”
- Tibetan: “ཁེ་ཐོ།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Quito”
- Turkish: “Kito”
- Turkish: “Quito”
- Turkmen: “Kito”
- Udmurt: “Кито”
- Uighur: “كىتو”
- Ukrainian: “Кіто”
- Upper Sorbian: “Quito”
- Urdu: “کیٹو”
- Uzbek: “Kito”
- Venetian: “Quito”
- Veps: “Kito”
- Vietnamese: “Quito”
- Volapük: “Quito”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quito”
- Welsh: “Quito”
- Western Frisian: “Kito”
- Western Frisian: “Quito”
- Western Panjabi: “کوئتو”
- Wu Chinese: “基多”
- Yiddish: “קיטא”
- Yoruba: “Quito”
- Yue Chinese: “基多”
- Zulu: “i-Quito”
- “Quito”
- “San Francisco de Quito”
- “UIO”
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