Monument Marking the Equator
Neighborhood: Valles/Norte/ Calacalí
Phone: +593 3 295 9632
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Just 30 kilometers from Quito you can find 'the middle of the world', 0°0'0'' latitude - the place where the Equator divides the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The city called ¨Mitad del Mundo¨ (Middle of the World) has been made into a replica of colonial Quito and offers the tourist a wide range of attractions such as the ethnographic museum, an art gallery, a bullfighting ring, handicraft stores, and a cockpit amongst other things. This place is very commercialized and has a large flow of visitors, especially at weekends. Visitors can also enjoy the whole range of local cuisine. There are buses that leave from the north-central side of Quito and travel directly to this place, which is a must on any tourist's itinerary.
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A typical tourist destination and little else
Its just a basic tourist destination that offers little but where most will go to say they have been...
Reviewed by:hwrich@sbcglobal.net from on Jul 11 2008
only one visit is required and you will see it all, they do have exibitions by the indiginous indions from time to time
This attraction is very much for tourists, and is on the road to the mist forist, only 10Km further ...
Reviewed by:gambrose2000 from on Dec 05 2007
We cant wait to go back
My girlfriend lives in Ecuador so I went to stay with her and her family there. While I was there f...
Reviewed by:A Yahoo! Contributor from Defiance, Ohio on Sep 23 2007
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