Quito, official name San Francisco de Quito, is the highest capital city in the world. La Paz is higher, but its only de facto capital and not official capital city of Bolivia. Quito stretches over 60 Kms. as a narrow patch sandwiched between the Andes mountain range and Pichincha stratovolcano.
Although there are only 2.6 million people living in Quito, it looks much more overcrowded while roaming around in the city. There are houses and apartments everywhere - on the road sides, on the base of mountains, stretching up to higher slopes. The infrastructure is quite good with wide roads for both cars and the pedestrians, and although there is not much traffic sense, they don't honk and they keep proper distance between vehicles. Public transport didn't seem that nice with crowded and uncomfortable bendy buses, and there is lot of air pollution around.
Quito literally means middle of the world, and is home to the zero degree latitude that divides north and south hemispheres.
Although there are only 2.6 million people living in Quito, it looks much more overcrowded while roaming around in the city. There are houses and apartments everywhere - on the road sides, on the base of mountains, stretching up to higher slopes. The infrastructure is quite good with wide roads for both cars and the pedestrians, and although there is not much traffic sense, they don't honk and they keep proper distance between vehicles. Public transport didn't seem that nice with crowded and uncomfortable bendy buses, and there is lot of air pollution around.
Quito literally means middle of the world, and is home to the zero degree latitude that divides north and south hemispheres.
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