Mitad del Mundo - Equator Monument

Description:

Complex of several attractions where you also find the monument located in the Equatorial Line, on the latitude marked with zero degrees, zero minutes and zero seconds (0° - 0' - 0"). This Complex was constructed hundreds of years after the visit of the first French Geodesic Mission (1.736), whose scientific studies allowed determining the center of our planet, or as we know it, “the Middle of the World”.

  • Latitude: 0º 0' 00" N
  • Longitude: 78º 27' 19" W
  • Altitude: 2464
  • Location City: Quito
  • Address Local: San Antonio de Pichincha
  • Photographer: Fabián Villagómez
  • Address: Av. Manuel Córdova Galarza Km 13,5 (San Antonio de Pichincha)
  • Phone: (+593 2) 239 4803
  • Web: www.mitaddelmundo.com