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Quito

Quito

Quito, the capital of , 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.
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  • Type: City with 2,670,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Ecuador
  • Also known as: “Kitu”, “Quito, Ecuador”, “San Francisco de Quito”, and “UIO”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palacio de Carondelet and City of Quito.

Government office
Photo: Taty2007, CC BY 3.0.
Carondelet Palace is the seat of government of the Republic of , 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.

Protected area
Photo: Hubertl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a protected area.

Peak
Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 200-metre-high hill of volcanic-origin, with loess soil, located between southern and central Quito. Its peak is at an elevation of 3,016 metres above sea level.

Quito

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
node 58950371
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3652462
Wiki­data ID
Q2900
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zulu—“Quito” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Кито”
  • Afrikaans: “Quito”
  • Afrikaans: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Albanian: “Kuito”
  • Amharic: “ኪቶ”
  • Arabic: “كيتو”
  • Aragonese: “Quito”
  • Aragonese: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Armenian: “Quito”
  • Armenian: “Կիտո”
  • Asturian: “Quitu”
  • Asturian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Aymara: “Kitu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kito”
  • Balinese: “Quito”
  • Bashkir: “Кито”
  • Basque: “Quito”
  • Belarusian: “Кіта”
  • Bengali: “কিতো”
  • Bengali: “কুইটো”
  • Bosnian: “Quito”
  • Breton: “Quito”
  • Breton: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Bulgarian: “Кито”
  • Burmese: “ကီတိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Quito”
  • Catalan: “San Francisco de 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”
  • Chimborazo Highland Quichua: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Chinese: “Quito”
  • Chinese: “UIO”
  • Chinese: “基多”
  • Chuvash: “Кито”
  • Croatian: “Quito”
  • Czech: “Quito”
  • Czech: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Danish: “Quito”
  • Danish: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Quito”
  • Dutch: “Quito”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتو”
  • Esperanto: “Kito”
  • Estonian: “Quito”
  • Estonian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Extremaduran: “Quitu”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Quito”
  • Finnish: “Quito”
  • French: “Quito”
  • French: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • French: “UIO”
  • Galician: “Quito”
  • Galician: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Georgian: “Quito”
  • Georgian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Georgian: “კიტო”
  • German: “Quito”
  • German: “Quito/Ecuador”
  • German: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Greek: “Κίτο”
  • Greek: “Σαν Φρανσίσκο ντε Κίτο”
  • Guarani: “Kíto”
  • Guarani: “Quito”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વિટો”
  • Haitian: “Kito”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Quito”
  • Hausa: “Quito”
  • Hawaiian: “Quito”
  • Hawaiian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Hebrew: “קיטו”
  • Hindi: “Quito”
  • Hindi: “क्विटो”
  • Hindi: “क्वीटो”
  • Hungarian: “Quito”
  • Icelandic: “Quito”
  • Icelandic: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Ido: “Quito”
  • Iloko: “Quito”
  • Inari Sami: “Quito”
  • Indonesian: “Quito”
  • Interlingua: “Quito”
  • Interlingue: “Quito”
  • Irish: “Quito”
  • Italian: “Quito”
  • Italian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Italian: “UIO”
  • Japanese: “Quito”
  • Japanese: “キト”
  • Javanese: “Quito”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಟೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Quito”
  • Kazakh: “UIO”
  • Kazakh: “Кито қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Кито”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Quito”
  • Kirghiz: “Quito”
  • Kirghiz: “Кито”
  • Korean: “Quito”
  • Korean: “UIO”
  • Korean: “키토”
  • Kotava: “Quito”
  • Kurdish: “Quito”
  • Ladino: “Kito”
  • Ladino: “Quito”
  • 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”
  • Malay: “San Francisco de 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”
  • Ossetian: “Кито”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੀਤੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Quito”
  • Persian: “کیتو”
  • Piemontese: “Quito”
  • Polish: “Quito”
  • Portuguese: “Quito, Equador”
  • Portuguese: “Quito”
  • Portuguese: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Portuguese: “UIO”
  • Pushto: “کیتو”
  • Quechua: “Kitu”
  • Quechua: “Quito”
  • Romanian: “Quito”
  • Romanian: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Romanian: “UIO”
  • Romansh: “Quito”
  • Russian: “Quito”
  • Russian: “Кито”
  • Sakizaya: “kitu”
  • Sardinian: “Quito”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Quito”
  • Scots: “Quito”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Quito”
  • Serbian: “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”
  • Spanish: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Spanish: “UIO”
  • Swahili: “Quito”
  • Swedish: “Quito”
  • Swiss German: “Quito”
  • Tagalog: “Quito”
  • Tajik: “Кито”
  • Talysh: “Kito”
  • Tamil: “Quito”
  • Tamil: “கித்தோ”
  • Tamil: “குயிடோ”
  • Tamil: “க்வீடோ”
  • Tatar: “Кито”
  • Telugu: “కీటో”
  • Thai: “กีโต”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་ཐོ།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Quito”
  • Turkish: “Kito”
  • Turkish: “Quito”
  • Turkish: “UIO”
  • Turkmen: “Kito”
  • Udmurt: “Кито”
  • Uighur: “Quito”
  • Uighur: “كىتو”
  • Ukrainian: “Quito”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіто”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Quito”
  • Urdu: “Quito”
  • Urdu: “کیٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Kito”
  • Uzbek: “Quito”
  • Venetian: “Quito”
  • Veps: “Kito”
  • Vietnamese: “Quito”
  • Volapük: “Quito”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Quito”
  • Welsh: “Quito”
  • Welsh: “San Francisco de Quito”
  • Western Frisian: “Kito”
  • Western Frisian: “Quito”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوئتو”
  • Wu Chinese: “Quito”
  • Wu Chinese: “基多”
  • Yiddish: “קיטא”
  • Yoruba: “Quito”
  • Yue Chinese: “Quito”
  • Yue Chinese: “基多”
  • Zulu: “i-Quito”
  • “Quito”

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