• Location 0°15′0″S 78°35′24″O
• Altitude 2850 msnm
• Area 352 km²
• Population 2,215,820 (metropolitan area).
• Language Spanish
• Time ECT (GMT-5)
• Postal Code EC1701
• Mayor Augusto Barrera
• http://www.quito.gov.ec

The heart of the District possesses the biggest historical center of Latin America, guards an enormous cultural and artistic patrimony.Downtown hosts ten patrimonial churches,among which there stand out the church of Jesus' Company, San Francisco monastery andthe Metropolitan Cathedral, which they are between the most beautiful colonial buildings ofAmerica. Besides these majestic temples, ten important museums hosts transcendental masterpieces of colonial painting and modernsculpture.

All that constitutes a small part of the enormous cultural heap that has Quito to offer to the world. As counterpart of it’s spirit and colonial homestead, the Metropolitan District of Quito possesses today modern constructions, wide avenues, important green areas of recreation and relaxation, besides a wide variety of means of transport.

Quito, offers this and much more for discovering, it is a dynamic center of development, articulated to the market and to the world interests, qualified
to offer excellent conditions of life both to it’s citizens and to foreign visitors.