High style, low money. (Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador)

The Economist (US) | October 17, 1992 | Copyright

Our series on odd couples ascends the Andes, where the high-minded residents of Quito tend to look down on their coastal cousins

FEUDS in small ponds make the biggest splashes. In Ecuador, a rather small country, rivalry between the two biggest cities--Quito, the Andean capital, and Guayaquil, the Pacific port--dominates national life. Quito, in a valley of the Andes 2,750 metres (9,000 feet) above its coastal rival, is a cool, picturesque place where people live by the rules and the restaurants close at 10pm. Guayaquil, industrious, grimy and steamy, is much larger, ...

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