Quito
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- Names
Quito
Villa de San Francisco de Quito
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Oldest S American capital city; situated on lower slopes of Pichincha volcano which last erupted 1666; ancient seat of Kingdom of Quitu; governed by Shyris from 11th cen. until unification with Incan Empire 1487; cultural center of Ecuador.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988); Columbia Encyclopedia (1975); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Fodor's: South America (1990); Petit Robert II, Noms (1989); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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