Like a golden thread circling the Earth, the equator sprinkles a bit of tourist magic in 11 countries. View on euronews ...

Ecuador's tourist attraction The Middle of the World has admitted the equatorial line drawn on the ground is actually 240 metres north of the zero degrees latitude point.

After hearing my guide's thorough explanation about the work of French astronomers there in the 18th Century, I asked if this yellow line really did represent the equator. "No, it's actually 240m ...

Stone huts sit just below the line of permanent snow and ice on Ecuador three tallest volcanoes -- 20,701-foot Chimborazo, 19,347-foot Cotopaxi and 18,996-foot Cayambe-- allowing the peaks to rank ...

Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous ...

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 ...

The equator could change the way you think about world maps The part that really stayed with me is the ‘Ecuascope’ room - a floor-to-ceiling exhibit that aligns the equator to the stars, and ...