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Itchimbía

Itchimbía is a hill in Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.

Itchimbía
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The place

Itchimbía is a hill in Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. The Machángara River, originating in the southern part of the city of Quito, is to the east. Itchimbía is on the eastern/northeastern border of downtown Quito and the southeast border of the northern part.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Itchimbía

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Central University of Ecuador

    University in Ecuador

    2.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cathedral of Quito

    Catholic cathedral in Quito, Ecuador

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Basilica of the National Vow

    Church in Quito, Ecuador

    1.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Ecuador

    National library

    1.5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

    Ecuatorian university

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    El Panecillo

    Mountain in Quito, Ecuador

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of Saint Frinci

    Church building in Quito, Ecuador

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Plaza de la Independencia

    Plaza in Ecuador

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of the Society of Jesus

    Jesuit church in Quito, Ecuador

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Polytechnic School

    Ecuadorian public university

    1.9 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Itchimbía

Airports
Mariscal Sucre (UIO), 19 km · Carlos Concha Torres (ESM), 183 km · José Joaquín de Olmedo (GYE), 264 km
Stations
La Carolina station, 4 km · Pradera station, 3.3 km · Universidad Central station, 2.7 km · La Alameda metro station, 900 m · El Ejido station, 1.5 km
  • Tachina → Itchimbía
    183 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · $14–19
  • Guayaquil → Itchimbía
    271 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · $50–80
  • Salinas/La Libertad → Itchimbía
    5 km · quickest by road, 29 min · $0.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Itchimbía

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Itchimbía. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    993 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,523 km
  3. 03
    HuacachinaPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,571 km
  4. 04
    OllantaytamboPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,604 km
  5. 05
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,989 km

If you know how people move in Itchimbía – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Itchimbía

Itchimbía is 3 km from Quito, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.