Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the ... were rendered as a vertical line, with the east on top. Its ‘integral geoperspective’ map makes the case that the east is ...

Ecuador ama la ... monument dedicated to the equator, and the walk back down tells the history of the original explorers and how they worked out where the equator line lay. Modern GPS established ...

Ecuador is famously named for the Equator which traverses the country and even has a themed attraction where tourists can stand on a line drawn at the Earth's midpoint. But it seems the designers ...

"People there don't see the equator as a line but as the point where Earth is roundest between north and south," he said. This place was Cayambe, where the third-highest volcano in Ecuador is ...

As long ago as 1736 scientists were exploring Ecuador, with, among other goals, the aim of defining and marking the Equator. At some point, the current Mitad del Mundo line was painted proudly on ...

Rising above a strikingly beautiful and barren plain only 1.5 degrees south of the equator ... Stone huts sit just below the line of permanent snow and ice on Ecuador three tallest volcanoes ...

Not far from Ecuador’s capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they’ve got one foot on either side of the equator. A 100 foot obelisk marks the spot.