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.

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

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”.

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 ...

There are some strange doings in Ecuador. They built a monument to the equator on the equator, only they put it in the wrong place. It's a few hundred feet south of the actual equator. No one ...

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 ...

Ecuador's Middle of the World Equator-themed park is actually in the wrong place. By TRAVELMAIL REPORTER . Published: 12:40 EDT, 26 September 2012 | Updated: 12:40 EDT, 26 September 2012 ...

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. N… ...

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.

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 ...