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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 map of Köppen climate classification zones Paramo meadows near Ambato, Ecuador. Each region has different factors that affect its climate. The Costa is influenced primarily by proximity to warm or cool ocean currents. By contrast, climate in the Sierra varies more as a function of altitude.
Cueva de los Tayos (Spanish, "Cave of the Oilbirds") is a cave located on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountains in the Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador.It owes its name to being the home of the native nocturnal birds called tayos (Steatornis caripensis), which live in numerous caves in the Andean jungles of South America.
Ecuador accepted the convention on 16 June 1975, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] Ecuador has five sites on the list and a further five on the tentative list. The first two sites listed in Ecuador were the Galápagos Islands and the city of Quito , in 1978, which were also the first two sites inscribed to the ...
Image:Canada_blank_map.svg — Canada.; File:Blank US Map (states only).svg — United States (including Alaska and Hawaii). Each state is its own vector image, meaning coloring states individually is very easy.
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
Pre-Columbian lithic disk. Monte Catequilla (also Kati-Killa) is an archaeological site in the Pomasqui Valley of Ecuador.Located in the Parish of San Antonio of Quito Canton in Pichincha Province, it has an elevation of 2,638 metres (8,655 ft) and is located on a mountaintop about 300 metres (980 ft) above valleys on either side.
Ecuador. Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, 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.