Quito
Quito is the capital of Ecuador. It was founded in 1534 on the ruins of an ancient Inca city. Today, two million people live in Quito. It was the first city to be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.Photo: Hugo2224, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Palacio de Carondelet
Carondelet Palace is the seat of government of the Republic of Ecuador, located in Quito.El Panecillo
Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Panecillo is a 200-metre-high hill of volcanic-origin, with loess soil, located between southern and central Quito.
Quito
- Type: City with 2,670,000 residents
- Description: capital of Ecuador
- Categories: capital city, million city and locality
- Location: Quito, Quito Canton, Pichincha, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.2202° or 0° 13' 13" southLongitude
-78.5123° or 78° 30' 44" westPopulation
2,670,000Elevation
2,854 metres (9,364 feet)IATA airport code
UIOUnited Nations Location Code
EC UIOOpen Location Code
67F3QFHQ+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 58950371OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3652462Wikidata ID
Q2900Quito Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Adyghe: Кито
- Afrikaans: Quito
- Afrikaans: San Francisco de Quito
- Akan: Quito
- Albanian: Kuito
- Amharic: ኪቶ
- Arabic: Quito
- Arabic: كيتو
- Aragonese: Quito
- Aragonese: San Francisco de Quito
- Armenian: Quito
- Armenian: Կիտո
- Asturian: Quitu
- Asturian: San Francisco de Quito
- Avaric: Quito
- Aymara: Kitu
- Azerbaijani: Kito
- Balinese: Quito
- Bashkir: Кито
- Basque: Quito
- Belarusian: Кіта
- Bengali: কিতো
- 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 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
- English: Quito, Ecuador
- English: San Francisco de Quito
- English: UIO
- 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: 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
- Kazakh: Кито қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Quito
- Kirghiz: Quito
- Kirghiz: Кито
- Korean: Quito
- Korean: UIO
- Korean: 키토
- Kotava: Quito
- Kurdish: Quito
- Ladino: Kito
- Ladino: Quito
- Lao: Quito
- Latin: Quitum
- Latvian: Kito
- 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: क्वितो
- Mazanderani: کیتو
- Min Dong Chinese: Quito
- Min Nan Chinese: Quito
- Moksha: Кито
- Mongolian: Кито
- Moroccan Arabic: كيطو
- Narom: Qùito
- Nauru: Quito
- Northern Frisian: Quito
- Northern Luri: کیتو
- Northern Sami: Quito
- Norwegian: Quito
- Norwegian Bokmål: Quito
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Quito
- Novial: Kito
- Occitan (post 1500): Quito
- Ossetian: Кито
- Panjabi: ਕੀਤੋ
- Papiamento: Quito
- Persian: کیتو
- Piemontese: Quito
- Polish: Quito
- 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
- Sardinian: Quito
- Saterfriesisch: Quito
- Scots: Quito
- Scottish Gaelic: Quito
- Serbian: Quito
- Serbian: Кито
- Serbo-Croatian: Quito
- Shona: Quito
- Sicilian: Quito
- Silesian: Quito
- 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
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