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El Mitad del Mundo

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November 18th 2005
The Mitad del Mundo translates as the Middle of the Earth. Which it is. Well sort of.... Apparently some time ago the French built the gigantic edifice shown in the first photo of this entry where they calculated the equator to be, some hundreds of years ago. Unfortunately those days they didn't have GPS, and subsequently got it wrong by about 200 metres. What this all means is that there's a b ... read more

South America » Ecuador » North » Quito

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more