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.

Only, the Equator has moved, so that the line now sits somewhat south - and in a river - away from the monument, and is only set to move further.

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 ...

Every year, about 600,000 tourists visit the Middle of the World Monument in Ecuador. They take pictures straddling a giant line that demarcates the northern hemisphere from the south — however ...

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. N… ...

Ecuador's current equatorial monument (real equator not included). Johanna DeBiase The equator's alleged location not far from the high mountain capital city of Quito first attracted French and ...

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.