Every year, about 600,000 tourists visit the Middle of the World Monument in Ecuador. They take pictures straddling a giant line that demarcates the northern hemisphere from the south — however what ...

There are some strange doings in Ecuador. They built a monument to the equator on the equator, only they put it in the wrong place. It's a few hundred feet south of the actual equator. No one seems to ...

This Ecuador motorcycle day starts in Quito and rides out to Otavalo for the largest indigenous market in South America, then ...

Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous markets to ...

A new monument to the middle of the world would be nearly 3 miles above sea level, twice as high as the current tallest building on the globe. Thanks to modern GPS, it will also stand just where it ...

Cuidad Mitad del Mundo, or "Middle of the World City" is a piece of land approximately 8 miles north of Quito, Ecuador, and home to a monument attracting thousands of visitors a year. But now there ...

Sixteen miles north of Quito, Ecuador’s national capital, stands a 98-foot-high stone monument topped by a five-ton brass globe. It’s the centerpiece of Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World ...

The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, ...