Meeting venues

The meetings will be held at two venues:

• Fourteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean: Innopolis Entrepreneurship Centre, Yachay City of Knowledge
• Fifteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES: Sala Capitular, Yachay Tech University

General information on Yachay

Geographical location

Yachay, the City of Knowledge, is located in the San Miguel de Urcuquí canton, in the northwest of the Imbabura province, in northern Ecuador, covering an area of 4,489 hectares.

Urcuquí canton covers an area of 767 km2 and is nationally and internationally renowned for its great diversity and wealth of natural resources.

It is located at an altitude of between 800 and 4,400 metres above sea level, and its climate ranges from the temperate subtropical environment to the cold of the plateaus, with an average temperature of 17°C. According to the 2001 census, 17,614 people live in the canton.

The canton is made up of the urban parish of Urcuquí and the rural parishes of Cahuasquí, San Blas, Tumbabiro, Pablo Arenas and La Merced de Buenos Aires.

Meeting coordination

The meetings are organized by ECLAC and the Government of Ecuador, through the National Secretariat for Planning and Development (SENPLADES).

Questions on substantive matters related to the meetings may be addressed to Mr. Rudolf Buitelaar, ILPES staff member, ((+56) 2 2210 2098, rudolf.buitelaar@cepal.org), and Mr. Luis Fidel Yáñez, Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Secretary of the Commission of ECLAC, ((+56) 2 2210 2275, luis.yanez@cepal.org).

Questions on operational matters related to the meetings may be addressed to Ms. Daniela Gebhard, ((+56) 2 2210 2630, daniela.gebhard@cepal.org) with Marisela Rivera (mrivera@senplades.gob.ec) in copy.

Hotel reservations

The meetings’ organizers have reserved a block of rooms at the following special rates for participants at the following hotels:

Registration of participants

Registration of participants of the fourteenth Conference of Ministers and Heads of Planning of Latin America and the Caribbean and of the fifteenth meeting of the Regional Council for Planning of ILPES will take place upon arrival at the hotel on 17 November.

Participants will be issued identification badges, which, for security purposes, must be shown at all meetings.

For further information on accreditation, please contact Ms. Paula Warnken (paula.warnken@cepal.org, (+56) 2 2210-2651).