Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous ...

Ecuador is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries. Located in South America it is home to the Andes mountains, the Amazon, the Galapagos Islands, multiple indigenous groups, the equator ...

Ecuador’s own Quichua culture was already ... round and to fix the exact location of the Equator, for which the country is named. They were extraordinarily accurate and it is only relatively ...