Why is Quito ... while you walk the Equatorial Line, an imaginary line drawn by the Geodesic French Mission in the 18 th century. The real point where the equator passes through Ecuador was ...

About 15 miles north of Quito, a yellow line representing the Equator runs up a long, regal walkway to the base of the Mitad del Mundo monument, built in 1979. The thing is, they built the ...

So here's a story about some climbs I did in Ecuador a few years ... Miami and Miami-Quito tickets when each was advertised at $300. Budget: While adventurers line up to pay $65,000 for a chance ...

But the Quitsato Sundial, 50 kilometres north of Quito ... be like if the equator were rendered as a vertical line, with the ...

La Mitad del Mundo—the Middle of the Earth—lies just north of Quito as one of Ecuador’s most famous attractions. There’s a monument commemorating the determination of the equatorial line h ...