Cotocollao, Quito

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  • Spanish
  • Ecological
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2021

What we do

Cotocollao es una parroquia urbana de la ciudad de Quito, parte de las 65 que conforman el área metropolitana de la capital de Ecuador, ubicada en el extremo noroccidental de la urbe. Su administración político – administrativa pertenece a la administración zonal La Delicia.​ Tiene una superficie de 275,0 km², y se divide en 8 barrios: Bellavista Alta, Cotocollao Central, Loma Hermosa, Los Tulipanes, Quito Norte, San José de Jarrín, Thomas y Urbanización 23 de Junio. De acuerdo a la Secretaría de Territorio, Hábitat y Vivienda, del Municipio de Quito, en el censo de 2010 la parroquia de Cotocollao tenía una población de 31.623 habitantes, y entre ellos el 52,6% eran mujeres mientras que el 47,4 hombres.​ Según estos datos, su densidad poblacional urbana sería de 115,4 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado, y significaría que el 1,4% de los quiteños residen en el sector.​ El uso del suelo es mayoritariamente de tipo residencial con importantes núcleos comerciales, y está habitado por estratos sociales bajos, medios y medio-altos. En esta parroquia se desarrolla un intenso movimiento comercial, sobre todo en los barrios de Quito Norte y Cotocollao Central. Además, la parroquia está servida por varios supermercados de características populares, así como por un sin número de tradicionales tiendas de vecindad, zapaterías, panaderías, restaurantes, almacenes de electrodomésticos y sastrerías. Las principales vías que comunican esta parroquia con el resto de la ciudad, son las avenidas De la Prensa y Mariscal Sucre, así como las calles Machala, Huachi y 25 de Mayo. Además, está servida por varias líneas de transporte urbano, entre las que destaca el circuito municipal «Q10» que cubre la ruta entre el barrio Cotocollao Central y la estación norte del Trolebús, ubicada en la parroquia La Concepción; así como el Corredor Central – Metrobús, que conecta el extremo oriental del barrio Cotocollao con el Seminario Mayor (centro de Quito) y La Marín (al sur).

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  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2021
  • Started living together

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  • Ecuador

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Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
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