P.S. If you are interested in getting to know Quito via its people, I can recommend a few pages on Facebook Quito escondido (Hidden Quito), from my friend Galo Pérez, whom I interviewed in this post , and Quito, de aldea a ciudad (Quito, from village to city), which collects old photos of Quito. Corner of San Francisco Square, Quito, Ecuador.

Sunset in Quito, Ecuador.

Basilica of the National Vow, Quito, Ecuador.

Street in the Old Town, Quito, Ecuador.

Quito was part of the Inca empire Tahuantinsuyo. In colonial times, the Royal Audience of Quito was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.

Square and Church of Santo Domingo, Quito, Ecuador.

Sr. Carlos De La Torre Muñoz, Quito, Ecuador

Little tree Park, Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Juan Arellano

Virgen del Panecillo, Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Juan Arellano

If there is one thing that symbolizes my love for Quito, it is the sculpture of the Virgin of Panecillo, inspired by the Virgin of Quito.

He died of cancer in Quito on May 1, 1992.

On March 14, 1541, Quito was declared a city and on February 14, 1556, was given the title Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de San Francisco de Quito ( Very Noble and Loyal City of San Francisco of Quito ), starting at this point its urban evolution.

Sucre and Benalcázar street corner, Quito, Ecuador. Photo by Juan Arellano

Martín, Malena and the Guagua Transhumante on the Pacific Coast heading to Quito, Ecuador.

As of 2008, the municipality of Quito divided the city into 32 urban parishes.

FIO celebrated its ninth Annual Congress in Quito from 8 to 11 November 2004.

However, the main road leading from Quito city centre to the new airport will only be finished in late 2014, making current travelling from the airport to downtown Quito as long as two hours during rush hour.

Photo by Juan Arellano You want to see museums in Quito? They leave me breathless.

Geography Quito is located in the northern highlands of Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin.

Deportivo Quito has won five Serie A titles in 1964, 1968, 2008, 2009, and 2011.

I have always entered Quito the same way from below, meaning from the south through Quitumbe.

After nearly 300 years of Spanish colonization, Quito was still a small city numbering 10,000 inhabitants.

By the 1850s, the Quito mint was not receiving enough precious metals to justify its operation.

Colonial period Indigenous resistance to the Spanish invasion continued during 1534, with Diego de Almagro founding Santiago de Quito (in present day Colta, near Riobamba) on August 15, 1534, later to be renamed San Francisco de Quito on August 28, 1534.

One of the things I like about Quito is that its history is a part of mine.

The Military Academy General Eloy Alfaro (c. 1838) graduates the army officers and is located in Quito.

Rodríguez is from Quito, Ecuador, and observes that there are some vendors that stand out from the others

Today the Jewish Community of Ecuador (Comunidad Judía del Ecuador) has its seat in Quito and has approximately 200 members.

They have just elected a new president of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur), whose headquarters are being built in Quito, Equador.

Others like Humans of Quito, Humans of Lima, Humans of Peru, and Humans of Asunción have been created less than a month ago.

I said that I wouldn't say anything bad about Quito, but there is one thing I can't ignore, and that's the taxi drivers.

Also, the Cauca region which included such cities as Pasto, Popayan and Buenaventura had always been dependent on the Presidencia or Audiencia of Quito.

De Velasco wrote about the nations and chiefdoms that had existed in the Kingdom of Quito (today Ecuador) before the arrival of the Spanish.

In an attempt to dialogue with the police, President Correa suffered a tear gas assault and is being treated at the Metropolitan Hospital in Quito.

Roads, avenues and streetsBecause Quito is about long and at its widest, most of the important avenues of the city extend from north to south.

The strike began at 8 this morning in the Nº1 Regiment in Quito against changes to the Public Service Law, which reduced benefits for various public entities.

In Lima, you can expect that the next driver will offer a good price if the first doesn't. The shortage of taxis in Quito always surprises me.

In 1563, Quito became the seat of a real audiencia (administrative district) of Spain and part of the Viceroyalty of Peru and later the Viceroyalty of New Granada.

The Board was informed by the complainant's counsel that FARE DP members had illegally entered the complainant's brother's house in Quito and had destroyed some of the furniture.

Instead, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hijacked the Quito meeting to propagate his Bolivarian Revolution and expound his own ideas for the continent s future as independent of the United States.

The first time I visited Quito was by chance. I didn t plan it, but a long layover between buses gave me the opportunity to walk around Ecuador's capital city.

2. Calls upon all States to support the States that comprise the Andean Community in promoting the principles and purposes provided for by the Declaration of San Francisco de Quito

3. Encourages the States members of the Andean Community to make every effort to ensure the early fulfilment of the commitments arising from the Declaration of San Francisco de Quito.

13. Welcomes, in this respect, the first regional pilot workshop for dialogue on the concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee, held at Quito from 27 to 29 August 2002

RIO DE JANEIRO Last month, the leaders of all 12 countries of South America (except one) gathered in Quito, Ecuador s capital, for the summit of the Union of South American Nations.