Pichincha Province

Pichincha Province Provincia de Pichincha
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Location in Ecuador
Basic data
Capital	Quito
population	2,608,856 (2005,)
- Share in Ecuador	19.7%
- Rank in Ecuador	Rank 2 of 22
- density	157 inhabitants per km²
surface	16,599 km²
- Share in Ecuador	6.5%
- Rank in Ecuador	Rank 7 of 22
License Plate	P
Set up	1824
prefect	Gustavo Baroja ( PAÍS )
governor	-
Seats in the National Congress	14 of 100
structure	9 cantons
ISO 3166-2	EC-P
www.pichincha.gob.ec

The Pichincha Province is a province in Ecuador . It has about 2.6 million inhabitants (2003), of which about 75% live in the capital Quito . The province of Pichincha is named after the Pichincha volcano and is located in the Ecuadorian Andean region , also known as the Sierra , but extends in the west and east to the foot of the Andes.

location

The province of Pichincha borders the provinces Imbabura and Esmeraldas in the north, the Amazon provinces Sucumbíos and Napo in the east, the provinces Cotopaxi and Los Ríos in the south and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas and Esmeraldas in the west .

history

The province of Pichincha was established in 1824 as one of the administrative units of Greater Colombia and was named province with the Ecuadorian constitution of 1835 .

In October 2007, the canton of Santo Domingo de los Colorados was spun off from the Pichincha province as the new Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province.

politics

The prefect of the province is Gustavo Baroja, who originally belonged to the social democratic Izquierda Democrática , but joined the ruling party Movimiento PAÍS in 2008 . His predecessor, Ramiro González , elected in 2004 for the Izquierda Democrática , resigned in 2006 to run for the presidential election in October 2006 as a vice-presidential candidate alongside León Roldós . The Mayor of Quitos, Paco Moncayo , also belongs to the Izquierda Democrática .

Since the president and the interior ministry are based in Quito, there is no governor in Pichincha province.

economy

As the capital, Quito is also the administrative and service center in Ecuador. The rest of the province is dominated by agriculture. The canton of Cayambe has been a center of international rose production since the 1990s due to its altitude on the equator .

traffic

The Panamericana runs through the province from north to south . Quito is home to one of the country's two international airports, the Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Sucre , which opened in 2013 .

Cantons

The Pichincha province is now divided into eight cantons. In order of their establishment, these are:

1. Quito (Distrito Metropolitano) (founded in 1534 as Real Audiencia de Quito and 1824 as canton of Greater Colombia, capital: Quito )
2. Mejía (founded in 1883, capital: Machachi )
3. Cayambe (founded or re-established in 1884, capital: Cayambe )
4. Pedro Moncayo (founded 1911, capital: Tabacundo )
5. Rumiñahui (founded 1931, capital: Sangolquí )
6. San Miguel de los Bancos (founded in 1991, capital: San Miguel de los Bancos )
7. Pedro Vicente Maldonado (founded 1992, capital: Pedro Vicente Maldonado ; Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748) was a cartographer and polymath)
8. Puerto Quito (founded 1996, capital: Puerto Quito )

Now part of the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas :

1. Santo Domingo de los Colorados (founded in 1967, capital: Santo Domingo de los Colorados )

Remarks

1. ^ INEC, Población total y tasas brutas de natalidad, mortalidad general, mortalidad infantil y materna según regiones y provincias de residencia habitual, año 2005 ( Memento of February 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 13, 2007. The figure closes the population of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas .
2. ↑ Gustavo Baroja será candidato por la 35 ( Memento of December 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), El Comercio , December 19, 2008.

Web links

• Homepage of the government of the province of Pichincha (Spanish) ( Memento of February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 0 ° 3 ′  S , 78 ° 35 ′  W