What is quito's reputation?

Answer 1

crime/stopover city

no, its the capital of EC, and about 200 years ago it was the first place to start a revolutinary war in all of Latin America, to try to be independent from Spain, and now it is known as "LUZ DE AMERICA" which means 'LIGH OF AMERICA" because it send out hope to all the other places and countries in South America and else where that anything is possible, and the SPANIARDS stole most of quito's wealth, and gold, which is why they have stuggled a bit financially, so then history wise they have influenced other countries in latin America to be free from Spain and did succefully acomplished that, but now a days quito is growing, and has different things to it, such as its well preserved history most of it located in the historic center, filled with cathedrals and monuments, and then theres the north filled with buisness men, and corparations, and companies from all around the world, and i should also mention the historic center has houndreds of tourist from all around the world, Germany, lots of European countries, and it continues to grow, all though it has its negative things, i just thought i'd mention the good things. its a fun place to go to.