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ID: 7004714
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004714
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Quito (inhabited place)  Quito (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 00 11 14 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -0.1870  decimal degrees
Long: 078 29 35 W  degrees minutes   Long: -78.4930  decimal degrees

Note: Oldest South 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.

Names:
Quito (preferred,C,V)
Villa de San Francisco de Quito (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ecuador (nation)  ........  Ecuador (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pichincha (province)  ............  Pichincha (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Quito (inhabited place)  ................  Quito (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
national capital (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
university center (C)  ............  3 universities established 1769, 1869 & 1946
World Heritage Site (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Ecuador .......... (nation)
..................  (World, South America) [1000051]

Sources and Contributors:
Quito..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..............  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 865
..............  Fodor's: South America (1990)
..............  Getty Conservation Institute, Field Projects [online] (2008-) "Quito (1991-1997)", accessed 18 February 2009
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 21 January 2014
..............  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 158
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Villa de San Francisco de Quito..........  [VP]
.....................................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 865
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 865
..................  Fodor's: South America (1990)
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 21 January 2014
..................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 158
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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