Ecuador’s name comes from the Spanish word for the equator. The country, which straddles the equator, even has a monument built to celebrate its location in the middle of the world, found about 24 kilometres from the capital of Quito in San Antonio de Pichincha.
However, with modern GPS technology, it has been discovered that the Mitad del Mundo marker isn’t quite positioned on the equator – in fact, it’s around the corner at the Intiñan Solar Museum, around a 10 minute walk away.
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