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Capital and industrial city (textiles,
chemicals, leather, gold, silver) of Ecuador,
about 3,000 m/9,850 ft above sea level;
population (1982) 1,110,250. It was an
ancient settlement, taken by the Incas about
1470 and by the Spanish 1534. It has a
temperate climate year round.