This world heritage site recognises itself with the capital city Quito of Ecuador which was founded on the ruins of the Inca city. It preserves the history of its ancient people through monasteries of San Francisco and San Domingo, and the Jesuit College of La Compania as well as through its popular historic identity of its capital when it is called ‘capital of the Audience of Quito’.

When American archaeologists Robert E. Bell and others excavated the city in 1960 and revealed traces of human presence on the slopes of Ilalo volcano located between the eastern valleys of Los Chillos and Tumbaco, to 8000 B.C., the site then designated by the name of El Inga. On the north-west of Quito, the second important vestige of human presence was found in the neighborhood of Cotocollao (1500 BC).

These archaeological findings throw much light on the history of the ancient migrants who arrived after the Flood from their original homelands at Kitti( or Kitu or Kito) and/or at Uddiyan, same as Uden(or Audencia). Ilalo refers to the Ela or El country from which name Iliad of Homer’s epic has been derived; El Inga marks the ‘Linga’ means the ‘phallus’. Pali texts speaks of Ilanaga, a king of Kolhana(Ceylon), and Eleyya, an ancient king of Magadha or Megiddo.  Name Ecuador similarly identifies ‘Kedar’ both of the Bible and also of the Indian puranic tradition where it means ‘a field’ or a ‘crop-field’. The same source see Kitti as name of an army general, name of an officer,name of a queen, and also name of a village;  Chillos same as Cholas who were neighbours to the Kittis; Kita-giri or Kita mountain was name of a mountain as well as name of a town in Kasi, same as Kasia.  Pichincha pinpoints paschima means the ‘west’; because the Kitti settlement was on the ‘west’(means Escuela, same as Eschate) itself.

Quechua—Kokua

Guayllabamba river basin—Gaya-Illamaba

Panecillo—Panchala

Ichimbia—Icchanangala or Icchamba

Andes—Andhaka

Escuela Quitena—Kotakana

Guapulco—Guapura

Recoleta—Lote Tree or Lakuchi Tree

Volcanoes:

Reventador—Ravana-pura/Revata/Raivata mountain

Cotopaxi—Koto-pakshi/Chati-pakshi

Sincholagua—Sakala/Sakhigopal

Antisana—Antilo/Antarana

Cayambe—Kayama

Illiniza—Ilanga/Ailanga

Atacazo—Athaka/othaka/Atakali

Pululahua—Phullara/Lahunia/Pili-Lohapura

Names of parishes in the city offer unique references to the ancient homelands of the migrants.