El Mitad del Mundo
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
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