Pichincha
Within Ecuador, the Province of Pichincha is one from
most important, nonsingle one to lodge to Quito, capital of the country
and "Cultural Heritage of the Humanity", but by without number of
tourist places that it has located around his nine cantons, it is in the
heat of located equatorial region of the stops You walk.
One is in the heat of located equatorial region of
the Stops You walk. It limits the North, with the provinces of Imbabura and Esmeraldas, to the South, with Cotopaxi and the Rivers, to the East,
with Sucumbios and Napo, and to the West, with Esmeraldas and Manabí.
Its capital Exempt is founded the 6 of December of 1534. Km2. has a
surface of 16,599, with 2'466.245 inhabitants, data projected for year
2000.
Pichincha presents/displays a variety of climates from the intense cold
of the Andean deserts, between 4 and 8ºC. until the semitropical zones
in the spurs of the Western Mountain range like Santo Domingo of the
Colored one that have an average temperature between 20 and 22ºC, in
valleys the average temperature oscillates between 12 and 15ºC.
Cayambe
 One of the more important tourist points is the
snow-covered Cayambe; which has in its skirts with a refuge for the
lodging of andinistas. To the Northeast we have the lagoon of San
Marcos, surrounded by small water cataracts that form the Oyacachi
river, this one has thermal waters and in his borders there are
ruins of stone houses of the old town.
Los Bancos
 It has great sectors with attractive tourist, in the Mindo parish
we have the river that takes the same name, the protective forest,
the cascade and the river Nambillo, the mariposario, the Mulaute
river and Blanco river among others. |
