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The Equator during the boreal winter, spanning from December to March. The equator is the circle of latitude that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It is an imaginary line located at 0 degrees latitude, about 40,075 km (24,901 mi) in circumference, halfway between the North and South poles. [1]
Ciudad Mitad del Mundo as seen from the west from the 30-meter-high terrace of the museum The yellow line divides the 2 hemispheres. Older monument to the equator in Calacalí (2008) 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.
Ecuador is a country in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean at the Equator, for which the country is named. Ecuador encompasses a wide range of natural formations and climates, from the desert -like southern coast to the snowcapped peaks of the Andes mountain range to the plains of the Amazon Basin .
An enlargeable topographic map of continental Ecuador An enlargeable topographic map of the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Geography of Ecuador. Ecuador is: an equatorial megadiverse country; Location: Western Hemisphere, on the equator. South America; Time zones: Galápagos Islands – Galápagos Time ; Rest of Ecuador – Ecuador Time
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Ecuador, [a] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [b] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland.
Despite the city's location on the equator, the Humboldt Current gives Manta an arid climate (Köppen BWh). The city is cloudy and hot most of the year, and rainfall is erratic and largely confined to the months between January and April. At these times, it occurs mainly during El Niño events, when the Humboldt Current weakens.
The islands are found at the coordinates 1°40'N–1°36'S, 89°16'–92°01'W. Straddling the equator, islands in the chain are located in both the northern and southern hemispheres, with Volcán Wolf and Volcán Ecuador on Isla Isabela being directly on the equator.