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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 (16 mi) north of the center of Quito. The grounds contain the Monument to the Equator, which highlights the exact location of the Equator (from ...
The Quitsato Sundial is a cultural-tourist place located at La Mitad Del Mundo, near to Cayambe, 47 km north of Quito, Ecuador. It was built in 2006 and inaugurated in 2007 as an independent, non-profit project in a 24,756 ft 2 (2,300 m 2) area. Its main goal is to share crucial aspects of the astronomical knowledge of the prehispanic cultures ...
Mitad del Mundo. Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World) may refer to one of the following: Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a national landmark located north of Quito, Ecuador. Catequilla Arqueological Site, a prehispanic observatory at Pomasqui Valley Zone, Ecuador. The Quitsato Sundial, located exactly on the equator, near Cayambe, Ecuador.
La Mitad del Mundo [64] (the middle of the world) is a small village administered by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, 35 km (22 mi) north of Quito. It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 m (790 ft) north of the monument area.
Pomasqui Valley. Coordinates: 0°0′0″N 78°25′43.3″W. Cerro de Catequilla, looming above the valley. Road entrance to Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve. Pomasqui Valley is a valley on the northern outskirts of Quito, Ecuador. It is located on the equator, the so-called "Mitad del Mundo" ("Middle of the World"), at an altitude of around ...
v. t. e. The national monuments of Ecuador provide a unique insight into a country with a rich history and culture. [1] Most monuments are reflects of the country and its position in the equator as well as monuments depicting its tradition of pre-Columbian civilizations and Spaniard influence.
In 1936, the French American Committee of Ecuador sponsored the idea of the Ecuadoran geographer Dr. Luis Tufiño and raised a monument commemorating the bicentennial of the arrival of the First Geodesic Mission. They raised a 10-meter-high monument at Ciudad Mitad del Mundo in San Antonio de Pichincha, in Pichincha Province of Ecuador. However ...
[5] [6] As the Constitutive Treaty entered into force on 11 March 2011, UNASUR became a legal entity during a meeting of Foreign Ministers in Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador, where they had laid the foundation stone for the Secretariat Headquarters. [citation needed]