💡 Did you know that Ecuador 🇪🇨 as a Latin American country, takes its name from the first French Geodesic Mission commissioned in 1736 to measure the shape of the earth 🌎
📌 Ecuador, which comes from the Latin aequator (“the one who equals”), symbolically marks half the world.
However, the existence of this “small” Latin American country has historically generated many confusions about its origin, location and identity.
15 kilometers north of Quito (the capital), is the famous monument called “Mitad del Mundo“, the “Half of the World” 🌎 in which the parallels are physically represented on the ground. The visiting tourists can be at the same time in the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere.
😃 For example, one of the things that always surprises you, once you get there, is that there is no shadow, because of the verticality of the sun’s rays.
This unique aspect, among many others to discover, is a special attraction for tourist visiting Ecuador 🇪🇨.
➡️ Conclusion, Ecuador, a “small” South American country but “big” in its richness and diversity, finally writes its history with its own name, its location, its identity, its cultural influence, its tourism (booming), its politics, with an entrepreneurial population widely recognized around the world 🌎.
So, curious to discover the (real) half of the world?
☎️➡️ Contact us now for more information on our personalized trips:
📞🇪🇨 Ecuadorian Phone : (+593) 2 556 451
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