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 structure ...

In 1990, construction was completed in the Brazilian town of Macapá of a football stadium named Ayrton Senna, after the famous and ill-fated Formula 1 driver. That same year, on October 17, it was ...

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 what ...

The equator may sound like a foreign geography concept, but did you know it plays an outsized role in shaping Earth's weather, climate and even ocean behavior? "The equator is basically just an ...

After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator - but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim to ...