Tag: Quito

Big Flavors in a Cloud Forest: Discovering Ecuador’s Yunguilla

March 5, 2023
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The streets of Quito can be chaotic at the best of times. Rolling out from the heart of this high-altitude city, a place where the heart quickens and your breath gets short, real fast—we only climbed. Soon enough, we found ourselves in the clouds. Literally. Turning off the main highway, we curled up a dirt…

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City of Fire and Passion: Discovering Quito

February 5, 2023
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Quito isn’t a city that hides its passions. Start with the geography, alone. Set high in the mountains, at a (literally) breathtaking altitude of 9,350 feet, it is set between steep hills on one side and the western edge of the Andes on the other. Long and narrow, the city’s dense network of streets and…

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Number of Missing in Ecuador Landslide Falls to Six, Death Toll 24

February 3, 2022
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QUITO—The mayor of Ecuador’s capital Quito revised the number of people missing after a landslide on Monday night from 12 to 6, although rescue work was still going on, while the death toll stood at 24. Ecuador’s worst rains in nearly two decades overwhelmed a dam near the working class neighborhoods of La Gasca and…

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Landslide Kills at Least 24 People in Ecuador’s Capital, 12 Still Missing

February 2, 2022
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QUITO—At least 24 people perished in a landslide in Ecuador’s capital Quito, and 12 others were missing, Mayor Santiago Guarderas said on Tuesday, as rescue teams searched homes and streets covered by mud following the worst deluge in nearly two decades. The torrential rains on Monday night caused a build-up of water in a gorge…

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