Quito Botanical Garden () is a park,

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and

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of 18,600 square meters in the city 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 ...

, Ecuador. It houses species of plants of the country (Ecuador is among the 17 richest countries in the world in native botanical species, an updated study on the classified Ecuadorian flora determined the existence of 17,000 species). The identification code of the ''Botanical Garden Quito ''as a member of the

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(BGCI), as well as the initials of its

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, is QUITO.Jardín botánico de Quito

History

This botanical garden arises in 1989, thanks to an agreement signed between the "Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences", the "Gardening Club" and the "Municipality of Quito" by which it became the old ''Nursery municipal'' of the'' Parque de la Carolina'', in a botanical garden. To guarantee the administrative efficiency of this entity, the creation of the "Botanical Foundation of the Andes" was managed in June 1991, whose mission is to manage and carry out direct actions for the knowledge, protection and conservation of Ecuadorian flora.

Collections

Numerous species of plants, both Ecuadorian and from other countries, together with some species of birds, and where the water runs abundantly through streams and waterfalls. Among its collections that are distributed along walking paths: *

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s, *

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, *

Páramo Páramo () may refer to a variety of alpine tundra ecosystems located in the Andes Mountain Range, South America. Some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as "all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline". A narrower ...

plants, such as the "paramo pads", which invite you to lie down on those soft green mattresses, but beware, they are pads full of water. *

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garden arranged in two

s, where tall orchids and tropical orchids are housed. In these are the

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s arranged on the stones, the ground or in tree trunks, just as it happens in nature. *

Medicinal plants Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against h ...

, such as ''guanto'' or '' floripondio'' (''

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''), a species known as the ''flower of the Inca'' and which was believed to scare away evil spirits, the

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Cinchona officinalis ''Cinchona officinalis'' is a South American tree in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to wet montane forests in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, between 1600–2700 meters above sea level. Description ''Cinchona officinalis'' is a shrub ...

'', the remedy for

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. * Native and introduced

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s, in a project that will be planned in agreement with the schools in the area. *

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hydroponic of

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'', syn. ''Tibouchina lepidota''

Climate

The

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteoro ...

of the city corresponds to the subtropical highland climate; Quito is divided into 3 zones; south, center, and north; where the south is the coldest place in the city because it is the highest area, the center is hot; where the highest temperatures always occur, and the north is temperate. Quito's climate is divided into 2 seasons or stages; winter with a prolonged rainy season and a four-month dry season where the highest temperatures occur. Quito always has a temperate climate with temperatures ranging from 10º to 27 °C.

Location

It is located on Rumipamba Street and Av. Río Amazonas, in the "

Parque La Carolina Parque La Carolina is a 165.5-acre (670,000 m2) park in the centre of the Quito central business district, bordered by the avenues Río Amazonas, de los Shyris, Naciones Unidas, Eloy Alfaro, and de la República. Iñaquito metro station is ...

", located near an important commercial area of Quito, and next to the "Museum of Natural Sciences".

Quito, Ecuador 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 ...

. '' Quito Botanical Garden '' Passage # 34, Rumipamba E6-264 and Av Shirys, Interior of

, Quito,

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. Visiting hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and every Sunday and holidays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

References

Bibliography

* Dodson, C.H. & FROM. Bennett. 1989. Orchids of Peru. Icon. Pl. Trop. Series II. Fascicle 1–2: 1–200. * Dodson, C.H. & P.M. Dodson. 1984. Orchids of Ecuador. Icon. Pl. Trop. 10: 901–1000. * Dodson, C.H. & R. Escobar Restrepo. 1994. AA-Dracula. 1: 11–207. In C.H. Dodson & R. Escobar Restrepo Nat. Ecuad. Orch .. Editorial Colina, Medellín. * Jørgensen, P. M. & C. Ulloa Ulloa. 1994. Seed plants of the high Andes of Ecuador --- A checklist. AAU Rep. 34: 1–443. * Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Catalog of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: i – viii, 1–1181. * Williams, N. H. 1972. A reconsideration of Ada and the glumaceous Brassias (Orchidaceae). Brittonia 24 (1): 93–110.

External links

Official page of the Botanical Garden of Quito

Official page of the Quito Botanical Garden
in the BGCI (English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Quito Botanical Garden Botanical gardens in Ecuador Parks in Ecuador Cactus gardens