One year later, eight group members made an illegal, but non-violent entry into the British Embassy in Quito, demanding the release of a group leader who was then imprisoned by the Ecuadorian government.
A week prior to the actual exercise to test the new methods and information, personnel from the 152nd AW deployed to Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Quito to conduct training and classes aimed at improving the skills of Aircrew and Photo Interpreters.
Eighth Graders participate in an international exchange program with a school in Ecuador, and spend 10 days living with host families in Quito.
In 1615 he was named president of the Audiencia of Quito, within the Viceroyalty of Peru.
He was made auxiliary bishop of Quito on May 17, 1969 (with the titular diocese of Tagarata) and was consecrated as bishop in Quito on June 15, 1969 by Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega, SJ, Archbishop of Quito.
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He was made Bishop of Machala on June 30, 1978 and then Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito on June 28, 1980.
The next year she won the First Prize for painting at the Mariano Aguilera Salon in Quito.
Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (born November 12, 1912 in Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador and died on April 6, 2000 in Quito Ecuador) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal.
Legarda was a mestizo artist and the one who best personified the art of sculpture in the capital of Quito during his period.
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This work, which became known as the Virgin of Quito (1734), met with great approval and countless copies and imitations were made throughout the Royal Audiencia of Quito (present day Ecuador and Colombia).
On the 23rd of June, 2005 this bird was adopted as the emblem of the city of Quito, which, being just on the other side of the volcano, is very close to where the last populations of the species are found.
The specimen probably came from the forests on the volcano Atacazo, near Quito.
Carlos María Javier de la Torre y Nieto (November 14, 1873, Quito, Ecuador – July 31, 1968, Quito, Ecuador) was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
His major religious works, characterized by polychromed wood sculptures in an elegant Spanish Baroque style, are preserved in the Quito Cathedral and the Church of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and in Popayán, Colombia.
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Manuel Chili (ca. 1723, Quito - 1796) — known as Caspicara (“wooden face”) — was an Ecuadorian sculptor who exemplified the Quito School movement of the 18th century Andes.
Through the chasqui system a message could be delivered from Cusco to Quito within a week.
In 2011, after Harbisson's visit to Quito, vice-president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno announced that his government would collaborate with the Cyborg Foundation to create sensory extensions and electronic eyes.
Edison Néstor Maldonado (born 7 June 1972 in Quito) is a retired Ecuadorian football forward.
García Moreno's prediction was correct; he was assassinated exiting the Cathedral in Quito, struck down with knives and revolvers, his last words being: "¡Dios no muere!" ("God does not die!").
In 1798, he was named President of the Appeals Court (Real Audiencia) of Quito.
The flag of the city of Quito and of the canton of Quito is defined by Article 1 of a municipal law known as Ordenanza Municipal N° 1634, passed in 1974, when Sixto Durán Ballén was mayor of Quito.
The Afro-Ecuadorian village of Piquiucho in northern Ecuador's Valle del Chota is a three-hour drive from Quito, the nation's capital.
Galo Galecio Taranto (Vinces, June 1, 1906 - Quito, April 14, 1993) was a renowned Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and printmaker.
He planned to go to Quito, Ecuador, and chair a university organic chemistry department.
From an early age he was very interested in art and as a young man he studied painting at the Central University in Quito.
Huáscar Inca (Quechua: Waskar Inka, of uncertain meaning, said to be related to his birthplace Huascarpata; 1503–1532) was Sapa Inca of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532 AD, succeeding his father Huayna Capac and brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox while campaigning near Quito.
Whereas, the Quito Declaration of the Iberoamerican Association of Public Prosecution Offices of 2003, where it was agreed to undertaking the increase of international criminal cooperation on the part of the Public Prosecutors Offices.
By means of public deed before the notary of Quito, Dr. Jorge Washington Lara Yánez, on September 22, 1971 the company Institute CIVIL AERONAUTICAL, ICARO limited, was registered in the commercial registry of Quito, on October 26 of that same year.
Instituto Nacional Mejía is a public secondary educational institution in Quito, the capital of Ecuador.
Aymara was born in Quito, Ecuador, in the San Roque on June 24, 1968 in the district of San Roque.
When he was 15 years old he moved to Quito, Ecuador where his father began work as a diplomat at the research station.
Pinto was born August 18, 1842 in Quito, Ecuador, to José Pinto y Valdemoros and Encarnación Ortiz y Cevallos.
Cobo has lived and worked in places ranging from his native Cali and nearby Bogotá to Quito, Chicago, New York, Tucson and Madrid, something which has given him a broad vision of art.
In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro led an expedition east of Quito with Francisco de Orellana in search of The country of cinnamon ("País de la Canela").
Leonardo Tejada (Latacunga, 1908 - Quito, 2005) was an Ecuadorian painter whose work was known for its Social Realism and Expressionism.
The Revolution is often seen as marking the birth of modern Ecuador, with a new power structure that favored the Liberal Party, and new infrastructure projects such as the construction of a railway line between Quito and Guayaquil.
Luis Molinari (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador 1929 - d. Quito, Ecuador 1994) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a group of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníbal Villacís.
Luis Humberto Preti Maldonado (born January 2, 1983 in Quito) in an Ecuadorian football goalkeeper.
He had to leave again because of the local regime and finally settled in Quito in Ecuador guest of his friend Jorge Enrique Adoum.
On 23 February 1820 he was named by the Crown to the Audiencia of Quito, a position he was unable to fill because of the independence of Mexico.
She was a hermit who is said to have sacrificed herself for the salvation of Quito.
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She is the patron saint of Ecuador and venerated at the La Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús in Quito.
MetrobusQ or Sistema MetrobusQ (the name is short for Metrobús (de) Quito) is a bus rapid transit system managed by the Empresa Metropolitana de Servicios y Administración del Transporte (EMSAT), the transportation agency of the municipality of the city of Quito, Pichincha Province, Ecuador.
The chosen winner will represent the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant which was held in Quito.
She then went on to represent Thailand at the fifty-third Miss Universe pageant held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004 but did not place.
The mayor Eugenio Reyes announced that the design of the monument was created by the sculptor Luis Viracocha of Quito.
Currently works as a Scout and Coaching the minor leagues in LDU Quito
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He retired from football after his participation at the Quito club.
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Since retiring from footballer, Zubia has stayed on with LDU Quito as a manager at the youth and senior level.
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In 1972, Zubia made the move to Ecuador to play for LDU Quito, where he helped the team earn its first two national championships also becoming the national top scorer with 30 goals.
As a child he moved to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where he learned the art of oil painting.
At fourteen years old, Muñoz Mariño lost his father, and moved with his family to Quito where they faced a tough economic situation.
He made his first assemblage works in 1968 and appeared in his first "Happening" that same year in Quito.
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He began his education as a student of architecture at the Central University of Quito in 1951.
Pablo Muñoz Vega S.J. (23 May 1903 – 3 June 1994) was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Quito.
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He has been posted to Mexico City, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Quito, Panama City, El Salvador, Monterrey, and Managua.
Carrera started his career at LDU Quito at the age of 15 in 1960, where he stayed until transferred to Peñarol of Uruguay in 1968.
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Since retiring from football, Carrera started his coaching career in 1990 with LDU Quito as a manager at senior level.
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Paúl Fernando Carrera Velasteguí, known better as Polo Carrera (born January 11, 1945 in Quito), is an Ecuadorian retired football player and former manager.
Pomasqui Valley is a valley on the northern outskirts of Quito, Ecuador.
The plot follows an Ecuadorian student, Tristeza(Vallejo) from Quito and a Spanish traveler, Esperanza (Martinez) from Barcelona as they unexpectedly travel together from Quito to Cuenca, because Tristeza wants to stop her summer love from marrying and Esperanza wants to travel when a strike caused by the runaway of the president, makes it impossible to travel by bus.
The Museum of the Quito Astronomical Observatory is located in La Alameda park.
William Vickers helped to organise an exhibition of his work at the Catholic University in Quito, Ecuador.
The plot follows the life of Salvador (Bustos), a young petty thief from Quito, after he is visited by his cousin Ángel (Valencia), an ex-convict with a bounty on his head.
Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (born 1 January 1934 in Riobamba) is the Archbishop Emeritus of Quito.
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He served as archbishop of Quito and the Primate of Ecuador from 2003 to 2010 when Fausto Trávez Trávez was appointed to replace Archbishop Vela Chiriboga.
Sapo Inc (sometimes spelled Sapo Inc.) is a group of visual artists from Quito, Ecuador.
Palmera was captured in January 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, by local authorities and speedily deported to Colombia, where he faced charges for rebellion, the kidnapping and later assassination of Colombian former minister Consuelo Araújo and various other criminal offenses that he allegedly committed, including the extortion or kidnapping of several of his former banking associates, former childhood friends and relatives.
From 1992 to 1995 he was in charge of many small local sides in Ecuador, until he began to coach the youth ranks of Club Deportivo ESPOLI of Quito in 1996.
Seminarians are formed through Solus Christi Seminary whose formation program is affiliated with our jurisdiction's major seminary, the International Seminary of Saint Basil, Quito, Ecuador.
It occurs in a wide range of semi-open habitats, even in gardens and parks within major cities such as Quito, and is often the commonest species of hummingbird in its range.
In particular Quito and Charcas, which saw themselves as the capitals of kingdoms, resented being subsumed in the larger "kingdom" of Peru.
The work of Theo Constanté can be found in galleries, museums and collections throughout Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Cali, São Paulo, Miami, New York, Paris, and Madrid.
He extended the realm northward along the Andes through modern Ecuador, and developed a special fondness for the city of Quito, which he rebuilt with architects from Cuzco.
She was only eighteen years old when she represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2004 competition in Quito, Ecuador.
He is the academic director of "Duke in the Andes", an interdisciplinary program in Latin American and Andean Studies in Quito, Ecuador, at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.
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He then played in 1980 for LDU Quito and came back to Paraguay in 1982 to play for Cerro Porteño of Presidente Franco to put an end to his career.
Neumane is known today as the composer of the Ecuadorian National Anthem, which was performed for the first time on August 10, 1870 in the Independence Square of Quito, with Neumane as the orchestra director.
In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.
Among his notable descendants are his own oldest son, Carlos, an Ecuadorian politician who served as Quito's cantonal leader (Jefe Politico) from 1886 to 1892, and the French historian and Academician Jean-Jacques Chevallier.
The city, administratively a rural parish of the canton of Quito, is located in the valley of the headwaters of the Guayllabamba River, to the west of Pambamarca.
In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.
It opened in the district of Miraflores in Lima and expanded in Latin America and recently in Europe, opening restaurants in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Quito, Caracas, all South America and Europe.
Under this proposal, Bolivia would no longer be able to play international matches in La Paz (3600 m), Ecuador would be unable to play in Quito (2800 m), and Colombia could no longer play in Bogotá (2640 m).
In 1929, with René Letourneur, he won an international competition for a gigantic monument to Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.
On August 20 of that year he left South America from Guayaquil bound for Faenza, Italy, where the Jesuits of Quito had taken refuge.
In 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, the barra brava fought the Ecuadorian police during a Copa Libertadores match between El Nacional and Independente in the Atahualpa stadium.
Cobo was born in Quito, the daughter of Ecuadorian historian Alfonso Rumazo González.
She also has a postgraduate degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales in Quito and a licentiate in Applied Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a national landmark located north of Quito, Ecuador.
Since 2008, NMUN has expanded internationally, hosting conferences in Xi’an, China (2008), Quito, Ecuador (2010), Olomouc, Czech Republic (2010), Lille, France (2012), Galápagos, Ecuador (2013), and Seoul, South Korea, planned for December 2013.
He worked for several years as professor of theology at Quito and then with great success as Indian missionary on the rivers Napo and Aguarico.
From Madrid, he traveled to Paris, where he was received as a member of the French Academy of Sciences on March 24, 1747 based on reports about his merits from other geologists who knew him in Quito, giving him the opportunity to print his “General Map.”
The Quito School (Escuela Quiteña) is a Latin American artistic tradition that constitutes essentially the whole of the professional artistic output developed in the territory of the Royal Audience of Quito — from Pasto and Popayán in the north to Piura and Cajamarca in the south — during the Spanish colonial period (1542-1824).
The Quitsato Sundial is a cultural-touristic place located at La Mitad Del Mundo, near to Cayambe, 47 km at North of Quito.
Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Retrospectives have also been held in Paris, Tehran, Moscow, Seoul, Lisbon, and Quito.
It counts with a prestigious university ESPE, one of the best universities in the whole country, and schools like: Colegio Liceo del Valle, Colegio Antares, Liceo Naval Quito and "Émile Jaques-Dalcroze" High School which offers International Baccalaureate and it is an authorized centre for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Cuevas de Jumandy - four kilometres north of Archidona on the road to Quito is a labyrinth of natural caves and tunnels that extend several kilometres underground.
The Royal Audiencia of Quito, whose president had executive powers, had jurisdiction over the provinces of Quito, Cuenca, Loja, Ibarra, Riobamba, Pasto, Popayán, Buenaventura and parts of the Cauca River Valley.
By 17th century, Andean women were the majority of the market vendors in colonial cities such as La Paz (Bolivia), Cuzco (Peru), and Quito (Ecuador).