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The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
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Quito
Capital city of Ecuador
Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the 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. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ecuador
Country in South America
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 contains the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sebastián de Belalcázar
Spanish conquistador
Sebastián Moyano y Cabrera, best known as Sebastián de Belalcázar was a Spanish conquistador. Belalcázar, also written as Benalcázar. He is known as the founder of important early virreinal cities in the northwestern part of South America; Quito in 1534 and Cali, Pasto and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 6
Day of the year
December 6 is the 340th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 25 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)