A two-minute walk from the monument, on a small, privately-owned plot of land, is a small yellow sign that states its location as 0 latitude “calculated with GPS”.

Ecuador's tourist attraction The Middle of the World has admitted the equatorial line drawn on the ground is actually 240 metres north of the zero degrees latitude point.

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 ...

This place was Cayambe, where the third-highest volcano in Ecuador is located, almost 80km (50 miles) further north of Quito. As expected, Cayambe hosts yet another monument for photo-hungry tourists.

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However the monument in Ecuador is not the only one to falsely advertise the location of the equator. Due to global shift, several sites that once sat on the Earth’s center are no longer ...

Rex Officials have admitted that Ecuador's Middle of the World theme park, which attracts over half a million visitors each year, isn't actually located exactly on the Equator. The development of ...

Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were ...

After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator - but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim ...