Puerto Quito

Puerto Quito is a 719 km ² large canton in the north-west of the Ecuadorian province of Pichincha. Seat of government is the eponymous town of Puerto Quito. The canton covers next to Puerto Quito still 92 more villages and smaller, more remote settlements. 2001, the State had 17,129 inhabitants.

Place

The town of Puerto Quito is church play and seat of government of the canton of the same name. Puerto Quito had at the last census ( 2001 ) 2297 inhabitants. In Puerto Quito are next to City Hall secondary schools and a public health center. In addition, Puerto Quito stop is several intercity buses, as it is about halfway between Quito and the coast.

Geography and History

Puerto Quito is agricultural. The majority of the population are peasant farmers. Crops include cocoa, oil palm, dairy and livestock. Puerto Quito is located at about 200 meters above sea level in hilly, (some former ) rain forest areas, which is why it ' is also the goal of increasing ecotourism. The place was built in the 1960s and 1970s by settlers from the Andean provinces. On the State Institute settlement the place was supposed to occur at the confluence of the rivers Caoni and Silanche, Pedro Vicente Maldonado had referred to the construction of its transport path from Quito to Esmeraldas as " Puerto de Quito " ( Port of Quito ). The place was soon elevated to parish and since 1996 has been the capital of a separate canton, which includes the area of the parish.

The pipeline Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados ​​(OCP ) was launched in 2003 by the Canton.

There, the rivers flow Caoni, Achiote, Achutillu ( Achotillo ), Río Blanco ( Yuraqmayu ) Macallares, Abundancia, Bravo, Inga, Mojarrero, Sábalo and Silanche ( Silanchi ) by the canton.

Government

Acting Mayor ( term 2005-2009 ) is Narciza Parraga de Monar from PRIAN, the party Álvaro Noboas.