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 ...

The equator, an imaginary line circling the Earth, is not only a geographical marker but also a zone of peculiar phenomena. Straddling this line comes with a set of experiences that are as fascinating ...

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 ...

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