Pichincha Province, Ecuador

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Map of Pichincha Province in Ecuador.
Map of Pichincha Province in Ecuador.

Pichincha is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is the city of Quito, which is also the nation's capital. The province contains the Pichincha Volcano.

Since Santo Domingo de los Colorados canton became province during 2007, the borders of Pichincha changed, and by 2008 are:

  1. North: Imbabura, Esmeraldas
  2. South: Cotopaxi, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
  3. East: Napo, Sucumbíos
  4. West: Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Pichincha has the ISO 3166-2:EC code EC-P.

[edit] Political division

The province is divided into 8 cantons. The cantons, with their capitals in parenthesis, are:

  1. Cayambe (Cayambe)
  2. Mejía (Machachi)
  3. Pedro Moncayo (Tabacundo)
  4. Pedro Vicente Maldonado (Pedro Vicente Maldonado)
  5. Puerto Quito (Puerto Quito)
  6. Quito (Quito)
  7. Rumiñahui (Sangolquí)
  8. San Miguel de los Bancos (San Miguel de los Bancos)

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. Gobierno de la Provincia Pichincha Web site of the Pichincha prefecture
  2. Data of Pichincha Geographical Data of the Provice. Web site of the Pichincha Prefecture


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