San Juan
District of Quito
in Cantón Quito of Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador
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Sangay National Park (Unesco heritage, 59 mi) - City of Quito (Unesco heritage, 73 mi)
- Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca (Unesco heritage, 121 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -0.230 and -78.525 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -0° 13' 47" and W -78° 31' 29"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - USD
- Spoken languages:
- Spanish
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 07:25 AM (Sunday)
- Timezone: America/Guayaquil
- UTC/GMT offset: -5 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 11:55 am and 12:03 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 0.199 and 101.480 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Mentulik - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,3 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning please reconsider your need to travel to Ecuador.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Ecuador. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Delve into San Juan
The district San Juan of Quito in Cantón Quito (Provincia de Pichincha) is a district located in Ecuador and is a district of the nations capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 17°C / 63 °F
| Morning Temperature | 10°C / 51 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
| Night Temperature | 10°C / 51 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 16% |
| Air Humidity | 57% |
| Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (3 mph) from South |
| Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 72% of sky |
| General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Monday, 18th of November 2024
17°C (63 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, broken clouds.
Tuesday, 19th of November 2024
16°C (61 °F)
11°C (51 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 20th of November 2024
15°C (59 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
BEST WESTERN CPLAZA HOTEL
Casa Gangotena
Hilton Colon Quito
Patio Andaluz
Hotel Casa Gardenia
Boutique Hotel Plaza Sucre
Casa San Marcos
Hotel República
Kinde House
Hostal Quito Cultural
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (The House of Ecuadorian Culture) is a cultural organization founded by Benjamín Carrión on August 9, 1944, during the presidency of Dr Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. It was created to stimulate, to direct and to coordinate the development of an authentic national culture. It maintains several museums throughout Ecuador.
Quito Metro
Quito, officially the Metropolitan District of Quito (Spanish: Distrito Metropolitano de Quito), is a canton in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.
El Panecillo
El Panecillo (from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread, diminutive of pan bread) is a 200-metre-high hill of volcanic-origin, with loess soil, located between southern and central Quito. Its peak is at an elevation of 3,016 metres above sea level. The original name used by the aboriginal inhabitants of Quito was Yavirac. According to Juan de Velasco, a Jesuit historian, on top of Yavirac there was a temple which the Indians used to worship the sun.
Cayambe Canton
Cayambe is a canton in the northeast of the province of Pichincha, in northern Ecuador, South America. The canton is named after the Cayambe, a 5,800-meter-high snow-covered stratovolcano in the east of the canton. The main part of the canton occupies the eastern portion of the Pisque river basin and is surrounded by volcanoes. The seat of the canton, also named after the volcano, is Cayambe.
Mejía Canton
Mejía is a canton in the province of Pichincha in northern Ecuador. It is named after Ecuadorian political figure Jose Mejia Lequerica. The canton includes a volcano in the Central Cordillera of the Ecuadorian Andes called Rumiñahui. The seat of the canton is called Machachi. Machachi is located to the south of the capital of Ecuador, Quito.
Puerto Quito Canton
Puerto Quito is a canton in Pichincha Province, Ecuador. It has only one parish, the urban parish of Puerto Quito, which is also the seat of the canton.
Los Bancos Canton
San Miguel de los Bancos, or simply Los Bancos, is a canton in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. The long name of the town refers to dedication of the area to the archangel Michael. Local tradition attributes the "Los Bancos" part of the name to the use of tree trunks as benches at the junction of the through road from Quito to Esmeraldas with the road into the Rio Blanco valley.
Pedro Moncayo Canton
Pedro Moncayo is a canton in the north of the Pichincha Province, Ecuador. The seat of the canton is the city of Tabacundo. The canton is named after politician Pedro Moncayo. The canton is separated by the Mojanda volcano from the canton of Otavalo in the province of Imbabura in the north. It borders the same-province cantons of Cayambe and Quito.
Rumiñahui Canton
Rumiñahui Canton is a canton of Pichincha Province in Ecuador. Rumiñahui Canton's canton seat is Sangolquí. The canton is southeast of Quito Canton.
Coliseo General Rumiñahui
Coliseo General Rumiñahui is an indoor sporting arena located in Quito, Ecuador. The capacity of the arena is 16,000 and is used mostly for basketball. It was built on July 9, 1992. It is also used for music concerts and other events.
Vulqano Park
Vulqano Park is an amusement park in Quito, Ecuador. The park is part of a much larger entertainment complex named the TelefériQo.
Basílica del Voto Nacional
The Basilica of the National Vow (Spanish: Basílica del Voto Nacional) is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. It is sometimes also called the Catedral Consagración de Jesús or the Basílica de San Juan. It is the largest neo-Gothic basilica in the Americas.
La Floresta, Quito
La Floresta is an electoral parish (parroquia electorale urban) or district of Quito. The parish was established as a result of the October 2004 political elections when the city was divided into 19 urban electoral parishes.
National Polytechnic School
The National Technical University, also known as EPN, is a public university located in Quito, Ecuador.
Church of the Society of Jesus
La Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús (English: The Church of the Society of Jesus, known colloquially as La Compañía) is a Jesuit church in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. It is among the best-known churches in Quito because of its large central nave, which is profusely decorated with gold leaf, gilded plaster and wood carvings.
Church and Convent of St. Francis
The Iglesia y Monasterio de San Francisco, colloquially known as El San Francisco, is a colonial-styled church and monastery located in Quito, Ecuador.
Itchimbía
Itchimbía is a hill in Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. It is surrounded to the east by Machángara River, a river that originates in the southern part of the city of Quito. Itchimbía is on the eastern/northeastern border of the center (downtown) of the city of Quito and the southeast border of the northern part. Towards the west Itchimbía is connected to the hill of San Juan neighborhood, a neighborhood between central and northern Quito.
Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín
Hospital Carlos Andrade Marín is a teaching hospital in Quito, Ecuador, managed by the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS). The hospital is a public hospital located in the center of Quito. It offers full services to those covered by social security.
Plaza de la Independencia
Independence Square, also known as Big Square . Historic public square of Quito, located in the heart of the old city. This is the central square of the city and one of the symbols of the executive power of the nation. Its main feature is the monument to the independence heroes of August 10, 1809, date remembered as the First Cry of Independence of the Royal Audience of Quito from spanish monarchy.
Municipality of Quito
The Municipality of Quito (officially the Illustrious Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito) is the governing body of the city of Quito and the canton that shares its name. Its headquarters are at the Municipal Palace, located on the east side of the Plaza de La Independencia
Carondelet Palace
Carondelet Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Carondelet) is the seat of government of the Republic of Ecuador, located in the historical center of Quito. Axis is the nerve of the public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colonial name), around which were built in addition the Archbishop's Palace, the Municipal Palace, the Hotel Plaza Grande and the Metropolitan Cathedral.
Ecuador Department
Quito Department was one of the departments of Gran Colombia. It had borders to: Azuay Department in the South. Guayaquil Department in the West.
Instituto Nacional Mejía
Instituto Nacional Mejía is the largest secondary educational institution in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Quito Astronomical Observatory
Quito Astronomical Observatory is a research institute of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito, Ecuador. Its major research fields are astronomy and atmospheric physics.
Historic Center of Quito
The Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador is one of the largest, least-altered and best-preserved historic centers in the Americas. This center was, together with the historic centre of Kraków in Poland, the first to be declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO on 18 September 1978. The Historic Centre of Quito is located in the center south of the capital on an area of 320 hectares, and is considered one of the most important historic areas in Latin America.
These districts also belong to Quito.
- Centro Historico
- Chilibulo
- Chimbacalle
- Itchimbia
- Jipijapa
- Kennedy
- La Libertad
- La Magdalena
- Mariscal Sucre
- Puengasi
- Rumipamba
- San Bartolo
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