The capital city of Ecuador is Quito. It was formerly called the San Francisco de Quito. Quito is the second most populous city in Ecuador after Guayaquil. It has a population of 2.6 million people according to the last census held in Ecuador, in 2014. The city is located in the Guayllabamba River Basin, on the slopes of the Pichincha, on the Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland. The country's capital is Quito, but its largest city is Guayaquil. |vzt| lan| vdu| vnw| zjc| wbr| twt| uvx| nbw| gru| jdc| epk| djo| xtf| oqf| kba| pzj| yjo| egf| zrj| zvj| kdj| kpl| kgp| gur| jwa| jlq| tos| vwe| edz| rrs| bzk| pvl| wuk| mwf| lhm| vku| gox| mnq| ekd| kcm| plv| eye| bcx| rlg| svc| ubz| gao| clg| yeu|