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Facultad de Artes y Humanidades Subject: Ingles-Modulo III TUTORIAL 1: Group # 3: «PLAN A TRIP» Teacher: Fernández Berducci Roxana Alejandra Elaborado por: Ingrid Matías Sanchez Nury Moreira Pincay David Sabagay Mena Christian Minuche Santana Nelson Guillen Gavilanes Jean Carlos Flores Guayaquil, 6th November 2014

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Facultad de Artes y Humanidades Subject: Ingles-Modulo III

TUTORIAL 1:

Group # 3: «PLAN A TRIP»

Teacher: Fernández Berducci Roxana Alejandra

Elaborado por:

Ingrid Matías SanchezNury Moreira PincayDavid Sabagay MenaChristian Minuche SantanaNelson Guillen GavilanesJean Carlos Flores

Guayaquil, 6th November 2014

QUITOQuito is located in the northernhighlands of Ecuador in theGuayllabamba river basin. The cityhas been built on a long plateaulying on the east flanks of thePichincha volcano. The valley ofGuayllabamba River where Quitolies is flanked by volcanoes, someof them snow-capped, that can bevisible from the city on a clear day.Quito is the closest capital city tothe equator.

Quito a place to travel

Exist several platforms along thevalley of Guayllabamba, connectedamong if by invisible lines thatcreates an authentic astronomicalobservatory and also they have agreat cultural astronomicalcomplex at Cochasqui piramyds

The great extension of theirequivalent colonial helmet to 188apples of houses of the colonialperiod with averages from among100 to 300 years of antiquity they doof Quito an incomparable city todiscover it in their colonialarchitecture

Quito has a population of 2,671,191 according

to the last census (2014), Quito is the second

most populous city in Ecuador, after Guayaquil. It is also thecapital of the Pichincha province and the seat of theMetropolitan District of Quito.

• Population

The indigenous population is the one that has the greatest cultural diversity in Quito.

• Climate • Culture

Quito, along with Kraków, were thefirst World Cultural Heritage Sitesdeclared by UNESCO in 1978.

Quito has a subtropicalhighland climate.

Quito is the second largest city incontribution to national GDP afterGuayaquil, and the second highest inper capita income after Cuenca.

Food

Ecuadorian food is well known for itsdiversity in ingredients and the reallygood taste.

The typical food restaurants in Quito havein their menu dishes such as seafood fromthe Coast, potatoes and mote from theSierra, fish from Galapagos and guantafrom the Amazonas. So anyway what youfind is a great variety and different tastes.

The best choice to get the authentictypical food is to go to the valleys aroundQuito, and go to one of the manyrestaurants that you can find around. Youcan get really tasty dishes at really lowprices; this is the case of Vicente's atMiddle of the World.

You can get it from $ 1.00 up to $ 5.00.Prices will depend because of the placeand the quality. Also there are reallyexpensive restaurants of Ecuadoriancuisine, which are La Choza, La Ronda, orLa Casa de a lado.

• Transportation

Quito is a long narrow city, 8km long by 5km wide, which is whyit is easy to identify the central zone (the historic district), theSouth (where most of the city's inhabitants live, and the North(where the majority of tourist services are found)

The main transport services in the city are:

Trolebús(Trolley bus Green line)

Ecovía(Articulated Bus Red Line)

Metrobús(Articulated Bus Blue, Brown and Light Blue lines).

• Quito Cultural Attractions

The old cultures of Quito discovered the astronomicand metaphysical value of the middle of the earth800 or 900 years before the arrival of the Frenchgeodesic mission in the 18th century.

• Historical Center

Quito is teeming with incredible monuments,churches, plazas and natural wonders to visit.With restaurants, bars, parks and entertainment too, Quitohas a seemingly endless number of amazing things to do,enjoy, see and learn about.

Evening strolls in the city take you past colonial masterpieces,historical sites, cultural hotspots and pictures Andean sunsets

• Middle of the world

Did you know that Quito is at the middle of the world? Yes, itslatitude is 0-0’-0’’ , which makes this city, and the country itself,unique. During the XVIII century, a geodesic mission from Franceworked for eight years to determine where the equatorial linecrossed, and in 1836 built a monument at that very site.

City of the Middle of the World, was built in the Parish of SanAntonio, and is located in the Ethnographic Museum of Quito.