Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (San Antonio) | memorial, museum, astronomy, interesting place

Ecuador / Pichincha / Quito / San Antonio
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The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador. It is located at San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito, 26 km north of the center of Quito. The grounds contain the Monument to the Equator, which highlights the exact location of the Equator (from which the country takes its name) and commemorates the eighteenth-century Franco-Spanish Geodesic Mission which fixed its approximate location; they also contain the Museo Etnográfico Mitad del Mundo, Ethnographic Museum Middle of the Earth, a museum about the indigenous people ethnography of Ecuador.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Mitad_del_Mundo
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Coordinates:   -0°0'8"N   78°27'18"W
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