BOTANIC GARDEN OF QUITO

HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF QUITO

•   WHEN DID IT CREATE?

It was authorized On October 4, 1989.

By May 1993 , it began to design the conceptual level with the help and collaboration of Judith Parker Evans, landscape architect, member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and linked to the Missouri Botanical Garden. The final level, delivered in August 1996.

In February 1995 , Mrs. Gisela Neustaetter, made ​​a major donation for construction of orchid, a key part of the Botanical Garden of Quito (JBQ). This glass palace is the main attraction of the garden, for surely home to one of the finest collections of orchids open to the public.

The February 25, 2005 , after intensive work, the Botanical Garden of Quito was opened, which aims to become the benchmark for conservation and education on Andean flora of Ecuador.

•   WHO CREATED THE BOTANICAL GARDEN?

On October 4, 1989, the Orchid Society of Quito, the Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences and the Garden Club of Quito signed an agreement with the I. Municipality of Quito, which authorized the use of the former municipal nursery for creating a botanical garden of the city to promote direct or indirect actions aimed at knowledge, protection and conservation of Ecuador's Andean flora.

•        MISSION AND VISION

Mission

Running actions for the direct and indirect knowledge, protection and conservation of Ecuador's plant resources, especially in the Andean flora.

Vision

The Botanical Garden of Quito dynamically directs its efforts to become a leading, efficient and recognized organization in the management of the plant heritage of the Ecuadorian Andes.By 2012 it will become a center for research, conservation and exhibition of regional native flora, including species at risk of extinction as well as an educational center on these issues.

UBICATION

The Botanic Garden of Quito or Jardin Botanico de Quito is located on the south end of Parque La Carolina in the heart of downtown Quito, between Avenue “los Shyris” and Avenue “Amazonas”.  The view below is looking west toward Mount Pichincha.

       HOURS OF ATTENTION AND COST

      The opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8h00 to 17h00, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9h00 to 17h00.While the botanic garden is not large it is very attractive and well done.  Entry fee is $ 3.50 USD for adults, $ 2 for children, $ 0.50 USD for children in public schools, free for the disabled.

             OFFERS

The Botanic Garden has an area of 18.200 square meters .It offers to visitors different areas where the flora is divided into diverse climatic zones that the Ecuadorian highlands have, in addition to permanent exhibitions of plants with specific characteristics, and warmer region plants which are found in greenhouses.

The Botanic Garden is home of more than 5,000 plants of about   500 species. The vast majority are native to our country.

ATRACTIONS

·      ECOSYSTEMS

Paramo 

Plants have developed amazing adaptations against the cold and wind. Know that the wilderness is our largest water reservoir.

Wetlands of Sierra

Wetland vegetation Sierra lakes and rivers are essential: purifies and oxygenates the water and food and is home to fish, frogs, birds and other animals. In the Botanical Garden we have our own Andean lagoon.

Cloudy Forest

Rain forest you surprised bearded giants, twisted and covered branches of hundreds of plants that grow attached to them; these forests are home to the greatest biodiversity in the world.

·      Gardens

Thematic gardens

Demonstration garden

An ideal Demonstration Garden to learn about growing vegetables, the care of plants and production of organic fertilizer. It is dedicated especially for children / as

Hull

Quinine is the Ecuadorian scale plant that has saved more lives in the world.

Ornamental gardens

Rose Garden Eternal Spring Rosales our country can beautify the world with flowers for export.Do not miss this colorful garden!

Zen Garden GARDEN-ZEN Originally from Japan. The main elements that form are sand, stones, with some green touches and a pond. Areas covered sand or small stones represents the sea. These gardens are intended to promote serenity and invite meditation.

·      REPRESENTATIVE PLANTS

     Lupinus pubescens

 HISTORIC INFORMATION: Native herbaceous species known as pussy pussy ashpa or allpa, was named for science in 1846 as Lupinus pubescens by the English botanist George Bentham. It was first collected by the German botanist Karl Theodor Hartweg in rural Rumipamba is now a district of Quito.

Cactus

HISTORIC INFORMATION: Are a family of succulent plants and a large majority, thorny,   known collectively as cactuses or cactus. This family is originally from America.

Orquideas

HISTORIC INFORMATION: They are a family of monocotyledonous plants which are distinguished by the complexity of their flowers and their ecological interactions with pollinators and fungi with mycorrhizal.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSEUM HOUSE OF CULTURE

     MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSEUM HOUSE OF CULTURE

HISTORY

CREATION AND IMPORTANCE:

Traversari teacher dreams crystallized first, the May 9, 1950, when it opened the museum in Quito, on the ground floor of the house of Mrs. Rosario Perez Ordonez. A year later, on May 1, 1951, the House of Ecuadorian Culture "Benjamín Carrión" solves the acquisition of the collection of about a thousand pieces classified in forty-two collections, with a length of three thousand years before Christ, and it provides that the museum would continue led by its founder and bear his name. In 1974, Richard Rephann, Director of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, who with the support of the Organization of American States, making the cataloging of the instruments in the collection, sorting according to, as amended by Internacionale Committee Hornbostel-Sachs method des Museum Art Collection. With this advice, the museum was organized with international standards governing such museums in the world. Unlike us their teaching in schools and colleges on musical instruments like wind, string and blow; they have been classified into four groups: idiophones, aerophones, stringed instruments and membranophones and recently added the fifth group of electrophones. Currently on display are five hundred eighty-four pieces, the remaining reserves are in the museum.

CREATOR

BIOGRAPHY OF PEDRO PABLO TRAVERSARI

Pedro Pablo Traversari .- Quito Composer and band. He began his musical studies with his father and then at the Conservatory of Santiago de Chile and continued his musical education in flute, cello, bass and musical composition. In 1950, he decided to sell his collection to the House of Ecuadorian Culture. The official ceremony took place on May 1, 1951. It would be a few years of this event, when the July 6, 1956 died in Quito, at the age of 82 years.

LOCATION

The House of Ecuadorian Culture is the most important institution dedicated to the promotion, dissemination and preservation of art and identity of peoples of Ecuador. Visitors will have a true rescue and strengthening the identity of Ecuadorians approach. Inside custody cultural heritage of the country and is distributed in various types housing collections from archeology, numismatics and photography.

ADREESS AND HOW TO GET

The Museum of the House of Ecuadorian Culture is located in the north of the city on Av.patria and av. December 6 will be in front of el Ejido Park you can reach the museum by taking the transport Ecovia because it leaves you in front of the museum

ASSISTANCE

HOURS

The museum's opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 01.00 pm and the 02:00 pm to 5pm

COSTS

The cost of admission to the museum of foreign $ 2.00,

National $ 1.00,

National and foreign students, Features, Senior Citizens $ 0.50,

Children under 12 free admission

ROOMS

HALL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

In this room we can find very different works of ancient art. There are pictures of all kinds, each frame has something to say or a different meaning.

In this room there are experts who are responsible for restoring leaving them as new pictures by careful process to avoid damaging the paint.

Find pictures of all kinds, from those who usually know so very beautiful pictures made with nails of different sizes. We can see that there are two huge masks miss with scrap metal and nails near the end of the room.

ROOM MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

In this room we can see a variety of instruments used in ancient times. There are instruments made of ceramic, wood, with the shells of animals such as turtle. Made of shell in Dode make two holes for it may sound. Also we find simple and rare instruments which only move to ring.

LIVING THE LIFE OF OUR ANCESTORS

In this room you can see the customs, beliefs, clothing, materials used for hunting, weaving, etc.

We note that wore long skirts, white shirts, many ornaments, sandals etc.

They had an extensive variety with weapons, baskets used to collect or store food there, they had already developed the textile industry so we see a very old sewing machine.

We can also see that to cure people used different herbs which were very effective.

 

Quito Astronomical Observatory

Quito Astronomical Observatory

The Quito Astronomical Observatory is a research institute of the National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador . Its major research fields are astronomy and atmospheric physics.

The Quito Astronomical Observatory is one of the oldest observatories in South America and was founded in 1873. In 1963, is the only Observatory of Ecuador.

History

The Quito Astronomical Observatory (OAQ) was founded in 1873, during the presidency of Dr. Gabriel García Moreno. ; becoming one of the best observatories in Latin America. At that time the building was located on the outskirts of the city of Quito, in a grazing area known as La Alameda, and is now a park.

After four years of construction and equipment, the observatory was ready for operation in 1877.
Early last century, the Observatory was the center of activities of the Second French Geodesic Mission whose aim was to measure the decline of a meridian; also for the same period it was mounted within the institution the first seismographs of Ecuador.

Activities of  investigation

• Study of galaxies: Research gigantic star clusters formed by gravitational forces of infinite range, matter which is covering the abysmal distances between stars, different ways to get the galaxies.
• Study of the universe: It specializes in understanding the structure of the universe. The part of astrophysics that deals with this topic is the Cosmology, the same as to assess the current structure of our universe must take into account their origin, evolution and predicting their fate.
• Study of  the Quito sky: It specializes in understanding the structure of the universe. The part of astrophysics that deals with this topic is the Cosmology, the same as to assess the current structure of our universe must take into account their origin, evolution and predicting their fate.

Astronomical Museum

It is within the Observatory. At the Museum of the Observatory it could be found the instruments used for scientific research in the development of astronomy, meteorology and seismology in the country, with the main attraction Merz Equatorial Telescope, still used by visitors at night observations.
Another attraction of the museum are the seismographs used to measure earthquakes or tremors caused by the movement of tectonic plates.

Merz Telescope                              Seismograph

Activities and Services for the public

The activities and services currently provided by the OAQ are:

• Night observations by telescopes.
• Astronomical information on the equatorial zone.
• Basic astronomy courses.
• Library.
• Operation of the museum on the premises.
• Annual publications.
• Antique seismometers.

   Location

The Quito Astronomical  Observatory  is located in the La Alameda park of Quito.
Address: Av. Gran Colombia s / n, Inside the  La Alameda Park , Quito.

Quito Astronomical Observatory 

Information

Their hours are:
From 09:00 to 17:00, Tuesday to Saturday and from 09:00 to 14:30, Sunday day.
The price of admission is $ 2 for adults and $ 1 children-older-disabled-adult students. Children under 8 are free. Nocturnes observations are made upon reservation and if the sky is clear; the cost is $ 3.
For more information visit : http://oaq.epn.edu.ec/index.php , Phone: (02) 257-0765

"Ex Penal García Moreno" Museum

The ex penal García Moreno is a very interesting place to visit, te museum is very big and darkness, when you enter to this place you will feel a little scared, but you are going to know a lot of awesome things of this shadowy place.

This place was built between 1879 and 1882 was the Danish architect Thomas Reed.

In the corridors and cells in this prison countless stories of pain and suffering occurred for decades

For this detention center they have passed since the most dangerous criminals in the Ecuador, as influential figures in the history of the country. One of the cells is that you can visit in which the former president was arrested Eloy Alfaro, leader of the liberal revolution.

The jail is divided in many parts, these are:

1. * The Cupule

1. *Hall A

1. *Hall B

1. *Hall C

1. *Hall D

1. *Hall E

THE CUPULE: This place is the center of the jail, you can see everything here but nobody can see you.

THE HALL A: In this place were the drug  traffickers, the bankers and the politics, this place had a lot of luxuries.    

THE HALL B: This pavilion was the most dangerous and agressive, because herte was located the criminals that stoles things   or kill to other people.

THE HALL C: This place was the most pacific in all the jail, in this pavilion were the drug mules, mos of them had little business in this place, many of this criminals were of other countries.

THE HALL D: It was for individuals of higher education and others with incomplete primary. Some received money or other work to meet their basic needs.

THE HALL E: (Isolated) was designed for five inmates of mestizos in each of the cells majority. Away from the rest of pavilions served a group of foreign drug addicts or economic problems without a social level or predominant offense.

You have here the schedule of attention: 

GUAYABAMBA ZOO

                                  THE GUAYABAMBA ZOO

HISTORY

The Zoological Foundation of Ecuador (FEZ) is an NGO (nongovernmental, non profit) which was formed in 1994 by a group of people interested in promoting the conservation of the biodiversity of Ecuador, especially of wild species of our fauna.

MISSION

Conserve biodiversity in the Ecuadorian fauna secies that are endangered, through project and programs of research and education.

VISION

Being a leader in the conservation of the native fauna of Ecuador, wich invites other to work on endangered species and educate the public about the importance of our biodiversity center.

The FZE is a member of 

ALPZA (Latin American Association of Zoos ans Aquariums) Also FZE is a member of CEDENMA and GNCCA (Group National Andean Condor Conservation).

 activities

Prices and Calendar

Cost of entry:
    Children (3-11 years):$ 3.00
     High school and colleges students with ID: $ 3.50
     Adults: $ 4.50
     Seniors: $ 2.00
Children under 3 years oldand disabledare free.

School groups:

     Public schoolchildren (3-11 years):$ 2.00
     Private schoolchildren (3-11 years):$ 3.00

Hours:

Tuesday to Friday from08h30to 16h00

Saturday, Sunday and holidays from9h00to 16h00

At 16h00 the last tickets sold.

Monday the Quito Zoo closed.

How to get?

The starting point of any point of the city of Quito is the season of Metrovia in Ofelia, from there you must take the green interprovincial buses such as: Pichincha Cooperative or Cooperative Flor del Valle, any of these buses will they will stop on the road, in the Panamericana Norte, hence they should take a van or taxi that will take you to Quito Zoo, Zoo Guayllabamba.

Store zoo

Store in the zoo you can find various souvenirs such as caps, toys, posters, thermoses, jugs, soft toys, key chains etc.

Example: cost tapir key chains $ 2; pocket books $ 2.50; scarves   $5; jugs $ 6

ANIMALS

SQUIRREL MONKEY

It lives in the jungle andin the guyanas, in ecuador,in ecuador, it lives in the amazonas,are diurnels live in family proups of more tan 10 individuals each female gives birth to a single calk after 170 days of gestation.

COADI

They are after actionate and play, are activities ad ruunners, move callyng with its thall aised in a vertical position

COLLARED PECCARY 

Similar a pig lives in tropical forest its preseice is revealed by the strong smell or stale producing.

WELL THIS IS SOME ANIMAL, WICH WE CAN FIND IN THE GUAYABAMBA ZOO.

YOU CAN GO VISIT THIS FABULOUS PLACE.