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.

Ecuador gets its names from being situated on the equator, and we couldn’t pass through Quito without visiting the middle of the world. After looking at Ecuador's Mitad del Mundo from afar, we ...

Visit the centre of Earth. Located in Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador, is a monument built in the middle of equator, falling in both northern and southern hemispheres, called Mitad de la Mundo, which ...

Wilson Hernandez, owner of La Mitad del Mundo restaurant in Danbury, shows a mural with the Cathedral of Cuenca, the Andes mountains, and "Panama hats." The mural hangs in his restaurant.

Ghanaian academy side, Young African Promises will be on a plane to Ecuador this summer to feature in the 2024 Copa Mitad Del Mundo.

About 15 miles north of Quito, a yellow line representing the Equator runs up a long, regal walkway to the base of the Mitad del Mundo monument, built in 1979. The thing is, they built the ...