Independence Square Historic Center - Plaza de la Independencia en Quito Ecuador

The Municipality of Quito (officially the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito) is the governing body of the city of

Quito Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley o ...

and the

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. Its headquarters are at the Municipal Palace, located on the east side of the

Plaza de La Independencia Independence Square ( es, Plaza de la Independencia, or colloquially as ''Plaza Grande'') is the principal and central public square of Quito, Ecuador. This is the central square of the city and one of the symbols of the executive power of t ...

Composition

The municipality is made of two principal organs: the mayor's office and a fifteen-member city council.

Administrative zones

The city and canton is administered through eleven Administrative Municipal Zones. Each zone, classified as either urban or suburban, has their own administrator and contain can both urban and rural parishes. They are (parishes covered in parenthesis): Urban *Sur :(Chillogallo, La Ecuatoriana, Guamaní, Quitumbe, Turubamba) *Centro Sur :(La Argelia, Chilibulo, Chimbacalle, La Ferrovaria, Lloa, La Magdalena, La Mena, San Bartolo, Solanda) *Centro :(Centro Histórico, Itchimbia, La Libertad, Puengasí, San Juan) *Norte :(Belisario Quevedo, Cochapamba, La Concepción, El Inca, Iñaquito, Jipijapa, Kennedy, Mariscal Sucre, Nayón, Rumipamba, Zámbiza) *Centro Norte :(Calacalí, Carcelén, Comité del Pueblo, El Concado, Cotocallao, Nono, Pomasquí, Ponceano, San Antonio) Suburban *Noroccidental :(Gualea, Nanegal, Nanegalito, Pacto) *Norcentral :(Atahualpa, Chavezpamba, Perucho, Puellero, San José de Minas) *Calderón :(Calderón, Llano Chico) *Tumbaco :(Cumbayá, Tumbaco) *Los Chillos :(Alangasí, Amaguaña, Conocoto, Guangopolo, La Merced, Pintag) *Aeropuerto :(Checa, Guayllabamba, Pifo, Puembo, El Quinche, Tababela, Yaruquí) Quito {{ecuador-geo-stub