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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 is located on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and has 2,237 km of coastline.It has 2237 km of land boundaries, with Colombia in the north (708 km border) and Peru in the east and south (1,529 km border). 283,561 km 2 (109,484 sq mi) is land and 6,720 km 2 (2,595 sq mi) water.
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Mapa general del Ecuador, por / Bernardo Flemming. Description: Français : Sujet : Équateur Échelle(s) : 1:1 800 000 Couverture : Équateur Langue : espagnol
Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World) may refer to one of the following: Ciudad Mitad del Mundo, a national landmark located north of Quito, Ecuador; Catequilla Arqueological Site, a prehispanic observatory at Pomasqui Valley Zone, Ecuador; The Quitsato Sundial, located exactly on the equator, near Cayambe, Ecuador
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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.
It is bordered on the north by San Miguel and Putumayo rivers and on the east and south by Peru.Oriente has an area of about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square km) and consists of little-explored and virtually unexploited tropical forest inhabited by a tiny fraction of the country's population, living mostly in small villages along the river courses.