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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 . It is located at San Antonio parish of the canton of Quito , 26 km (16 mi) north of the center of Quito .
Charles Marie de La Condamine (French: [la kɔ̃damin]; 28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.He spent ten years in territory which is now Ecuador, measuring the length of a degree of latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astro-geodetic observations.
The French Geodesic Mission to the Equator (French: Expédition géodésique française en Équateur), also called the French Geodesic Mission to Peru and the Spanish-French Geodesic Mission, was an 18th-century expedition to what is now Ecuador carried out for the purpose of performing an arc measurement, measuring the length of a degree of latitude near the Equator, by which the Earth's ...
The highest point on the equator is at the elevation of 4,690 metres (15,387 ft), at , found on the southern slopes of Volcán Cayambe [summit 5,790 metres (18,996 ft)] in This is slightly above the snow line and is the only place on the equator where snow lies on the ground.
1792 – Spanish naval officers Dionisio Alcalá Galiano and Cayetano Valdés y Flores circumnavigate Vancouver Island, proving its insularity. [29] 1792 – Jacinto Caamaño enters Clarence Strait, showing that much of the Alaska Panhandle is an archipelago and not part of the mainland, as had been presumed. He also sights the southwest coast ...
The six-second video platform Vine, has skyrocketed these 10 Latinos to micro-celeb status. Check them out below: 1) Cameron Dallas: The 20-year-old Vine star is part Mexican. He won the Teen's ...
Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500".
The cave’s bridge was first discovered in 2000. A few years afterward, a study written in the Catalan language estimated the bridge to be 3,500 years old based on pottery found in one of the ...