Like a golden thread circling the Earth, the equator sprinkles a bit of tourist magic in 11 countries. View on euronews ...

This popular tourist destination in Ecuador draws roughly half a million visitors per year, but its primary selling point is actually based on a mistake.

Stone huts sit just below the line of permanent snow and ice on Ecuador three tallest volcanoes -- 20,701-foot Chimborazo, 19,347-foot Cotopaxi and 18,996-foot Cayambe -- allowing the peaks to ...

BBC Mundo's Matias Zibell goes in search of the equator in Ecuador, but the task proves much more difficult than he expected.

Much Ado About Nothing at the Equator Just north of Quito stands a grand and glowing tribute to one of Ecuador’s proudest features: the Equator. The problem is, it was built in the wrong place ...

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. Now, the ...

The Equator The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 ...

The Equator Line: A Visit to La Mitad del Mundo No trip to Quito Ecuador would be complete without a visit to La Mitad del Mundo, “The Middle of the World.” ...

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 ...

Ecuador, Indonesia, Uganda: Where can you visit the equator and is it worth a trip? Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip.