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Quito

#176 in World

Ecuador

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© Asamblea Nacional del EcuadorCC BY-SA 2.0
Population
1.8M
Coordinates
-0.2299, -78.5249
Category
cities

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Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes.

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