Pichincha is one of the most important provinces, non single to lodge to Quito, capital of the country, also because it has many others tourist places that it has located around its nine towns, it is in the middle of located equatorial region of the hight Andes, next to the Western Mountain range. It has a surface of 12,914 Km². At the present time it has 2'388.817 inhabitants. It limits the north, with the provinces of Imbabura and Esmeraldas, to the south, with Cotopaxi and Los Rìos, to the east, with Sucumbios and Napo, and to the west, with Esmeraldas and Manabí. Its spring weather oscillates between 12 and 24 degrees and has many sites of interest in addition to its historic capital, like protected natural territories (forests, snow-covered, volcanos), archaeological sites and artisan towns.

Quito, capital of the province and the country, counts on the presence of the main hotel chains of the world, is the ideal site for the accomplishment of conventions or national and international events, also had to its strategic location. Its airport Mariscal Sucre is one of the international terminals that exist in Ecuador. It is located next to Pichincha volcano and declared by UNESCO Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, is one of the more important historic cities of Latin America. Here is combined the great architectonic beauty classic and barroca of its churches and convents constructed at the Colonial time with the enormous and luxurious constructions in its modern zone. Quito is in addition the point of beginning to other main Ecuadorian tourist destinies.

To just twenty minutes of Quito is the "City Mitad del Mundo". The complex consists in the exact copy of a typical town of the andes, with its central park. To a flank and like one of the main constructions of the zone, it is the Monument to Half of the World, with a viewpoint and an anthropological museum of the different regions from the country. Around there are other attractions like the planetarium and a scale model of colonial Quito. Also there is a stroll with the efigies of the scientists of the Geodesic Mission who came to Ecuador to measure the arc of the meridian that divides to the Earth in two hemispheres, as well as pavilions dedicated to the countries that conformed this mission. Additionally in this place diverse businesses store exist, like restaurants, cafeteries, ice cream stores, bars, sale of artesanìas, museums, hosteries, cybers, etc.

This reserve, of more than 400 thousand hectaries, is located in the provinces of Pichincha, Imbabura and Sucumbíos. One of the more important tourist points is the snow-covered Cayambe, mainly for the andinistas that can ascend by their perpetual snows until the summit. This protected site account also with forests and lagoons, like the Lagoon of San Marcos, surrounded by water cataracts that form the river Oyacachi, a magic place where in its borders we found stone ruins of ancestral towns and also thermal waters seen to those of Papallacta, another spring located at the beginning of the Reserve very visited by national and foreign tourists.

In Los Bancos town, we found great sectors with enormous attractive tourist, approximately two hours to the northwest of Quito, is the more important natural reserve of birds of the country. We reffer to Mindo, a perfect place for the observation of around 500 species of birds, that furrow in herds the sky of the mountainous area. Also there are humid, primary and secondary forests almost tropical. In the middle of its varied flora, they live mamalian, reptiles and colorful butterflies, another one of the attractiveness of the sector. The rivers Mindo, Nambillo, Malaute and Blanco contribute with his causes and cataracts allowing that the travellers enjoy a beatiful landscape and show unforgettable, where also can be practice some
aquatic activities and be stayed in nice hosteries.