La Magdalena is an
electoral parish
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated s ...
(parroquia electorale urban) or district of
Quito
Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...
, the
capital city
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of
Ecuador
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. The parish was established as a result of the October 2004
political elections when the city was divided into 19 urban electoral parishes.
References
Parishes of Quito Canton
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