Record stores in Quito

Vinyl hunting in Quito, Pichincha? There are 19 record shops mapped here. That's 19 record shops mapped around Quito. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Quito (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Metropoli and Casa Musical Parra, plus Centro Musical. If a record shop's missing from Quito's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Quito record lineup

19 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Quito

1 of the 19 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

There's a cluster: 3 of them sit on Avenida 10 de Agosto, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.

The Quito record crawl

Making a day of it in Quito? Work this order: Metropoli on Avenida 6 de Diciembre, Casa Musical Parra on Avenida 10 de Agosto, Centro Musical on N2-03 Venezuela, Casa Musical Parra on Venezuela, Giorgio's on Avenida Napo, Ecko Music on Avenida 10 de Agosto, Import Music, and Casa Musical Parra. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 11 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Quito

A few things worth knowing before you work through Quito's record stores:

• Inspect the seams at Metropoli. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Ask to play it at Casa Musical Parra. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Check the turntable section. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.
• Ask about the return policy. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Quito — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Quito can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 19, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 19 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.