[Juan Jose Valencia]

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BUILDING REQUEST FORM
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Official sources:
Unofficial sources: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Panecillo

Building Name: Virgen de Quito
Native Name: Virgen del Panecillo
Other Names: Virgen de las Américas
Street Address: Yavirac
City: Quito
Postal Code: 593
State/Province: Pichincha
Country: Ecuador
Architect: Arq. Virgilio Flores Vallejo
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words): In 1976, the Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras was commissioned by the religious order of the Oblates to build a 45-meter-tall aluminum monument of a madonna which was assembled on a high pedestal on the top of Panecillo. It is made of seven thousand pieces of aluminum. The monument was inaugurated on March 28, 1976, by the 11th archbishop of Quito, Pablo Muñoz Vega. The statue was engineered and erected by Anibal Lopez of Quito.
Coordinates (with decimal fraction): -0.228611°, -78.518611°


Heights--
PLEASE PROVIDE SOURCES FOR HEIGHTS, OTHERWISE WE WILL ASSUME THEY ARE ESTIMATES AND HEIGHTS NOT BE SHOWN.
- antenna: 45
- spire: 42

Current Building Status (Built, Proposed, Cancelled, Destroyed, etc...): built

Construction Dates--
- started: 1975
- finished: 1976

Above ground floors: 3

Structure Type(s): statue
Building Use(s): monument, observation
Building Style(s):
Building Materials: aluminum, concrete