Lay of the Land Quito was already an old city when the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s—and even when the Inca arrived prior to then, searching for the place where the sun rose at the same time every day. For centuries, it had been an ancient meeting point for any number of the various ethnic groups that populated the country back then, a virtual melting pot of hill tribes and low forest dwellers. It’s no surprise, then that Quito represents one of the most cultural and diverse cities in the A...
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