Latacunga

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Latacunga is a highland city in central Ecuador, known as the capital of Cotopaxi Province and a gateway to the Cotopaxi volcano.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Latacunga canonical 7
Latacunga valley 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
human settlement
airportIATA LTX
architecturalStyle colonial architecture
capitalOf Cotopaxi Province
climate cool highland climate
coordinateLocation -0.9333,-78.6167
country Ecuador
countryCapital no
currency US dollar
surface form: United States dollar
demographics predominantly mestizo population
distanceToQuito about 90 km
drainageBasin Pastaza River basin
economicActivity agriculture
commerce
services
elevationAboveSeaLevel 2750 m
festivity Mama Negra festival
surface form: Fiesta de la Mama Negra
governingBody Municipality of Latacunga
hasAirport Cotopaxi International Airport
hasHeritageStatus part of Ecuadorian cultural heritage
hasHistoricCenter yes
hasMunicipalStatus yes
hasUniversity local higher education institutions
isGatewayTo Cotopaxi (volcano)
surface form: Cotopaxi volcano
isNear Cotopaxi (volcano)
surface form: Cotopaxi volcano
isSeatOf Latacunga Canton
knownFor Mama Negra festival
proximity to Cotopaxi National Park
languageSpoken Kichwa (minority)
locatedIn Cotopaxi Province
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Cotopaxi Province
locatedInRegion central Ecuador
locatedInValley Latacunga self-linksurface differs
surface form: Latacunga valley
locatedOnContinent South America
locatedSouthOf Quito
nearbyProtectedArea Cotopaxi National Park
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Andean Region of Ecuador
surface form: Sierra region of Ecuador
populationEstimate over 90,000 inhabitants
postalCountryCode EC
religionMajority Roman Catholicism
river Cutuchi River
roadConnection Pan-American Highway
subdivisionType canton seat
timeZone UTC-5
transportInfrastructure interprovincial bus connections
volcanicRisk exposed to Cotopaxi volcanic hazards

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Latacunga
Description of subject: Latacunga is a highland city in central Ecuador, known as the capital of Cotopaxi Province and a gateway to the Cotopaxi volcano.

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ecuador Time usedIn Latacunga
Cotopaxi (volcano) nearbyCity Latacunga
subject surface form: Cotopaxi
Latacunga locatedInValley Latacunga self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Latacunga valley
Cotopaxi Province capital Latacunga
Cotopaxi Province seat Latacunga
Quilotoa accessFrom Latacunga