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Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Quito Street Tours
Phone:
+593 99 886 0539

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday12:30pm - 9pm
Wednesday12:30pm - 9pm
Thursday12:30pm - 9pm
Friday12:30pm - 9pm
Saturday2pm - 9pm


Quito is the capital city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of 2,850 metres above sea level, it is the second-highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, and the one which is closest to the equator. It is located in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains. With a population of 2,671,191 according to the last census , Quito is the second most populous city in Ecuador, after Guayaquil. It is also the capital of the Pichincha province and the seat of the Metropolitan District of Quito. The canton recorded a population of 2,239,191 residents in the 2010 national census. In 2008, the city was designated as the headquarters of the Union of South American Nations.The historic center of Quito has one of the largest, least-altered and best-preserved historic centers in the Americas. Quito and Kraków, Poland, were among the first World Cultural Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO, in 1978. The central square of Quito is located about 25 kilometres south of the equator; the city itself extends to within about 1 kilometre of zero latitude. A monument and museum marking the general location of the equator is known locally as la mitad del mundo , to avoid confusion, as the word ecuador is Spanish for equator.
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