Wikipedia offers the following:
San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America.
With an estimated population of about 2.1 million people,
Quito is the second most populous city in Ecuador, after Guayaquil.
The city's elevation is, on average, 2,850 m (about 9,350 ft),
making Quito the second highest capital city in the world.

As our plane landed in the rain, we literally slammed onto the runway
with an immediate roar of the reversed fans of the engines. Whoa! It was more
like an impact than a touchdown on the tarmac. We finally concluded that the
air is less dense at that altitude with little ground effect before touchdown.