Amalgro, in an attempt to claim Quito…
August 1534 CE
Amalgro, in an attempt to claim Quito ahead of Belalcázar, in August 1534 founds a city on the shores of Laguna de Colta (Colta Lake) in the foothills of Chimborazo, some ninety miles south of present-day Quito, and names it "Santiago de Quito" (in present-day Colta, near Riobamba) on August 15, 1534, later to be renamed San Francisco de Quito on August 28, 1534.