Guayllabamba (

Kichwa Kichwa (, , also Spanish ) is a Quechuan language that includes all Quechua varieties of Ecuador and Colombia ('' Inga''), as well as extensions into Peru. It has an estimated half million speakers. Classification Kichwa belongs to the Nor ...

: ''Wayllapampa'', "green plain") is a small agricultural town (administratively, a rural parish of the canton of

Quito Quito (; ), officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and second-largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, P ...

) located 29 kilometers northeast of the city of

in northern

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

. In the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 12,227. The elevation is above sea level.Google Earth The Zoológico de Quito (Quito Zoo), originally in the Benalcázar parish of Quito, was moved in 1997 to the southwest of the parish. The zoo is the largest in Ecuador. Guayllabamba is located on Ecuador Highway 28B, which connects it with Quito and Cayambe.

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Zoológico de Guayllabamba
{{Ecuador-geo-stub Parishes of Quito Canton