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The 13 Best Things to Do in Quito, Ecuador

"The 30-meter-tall Mitad del Mundo monument, built in the late 1970s, marks a celebrated but geographically incorrect 'equator' location discovered to be off once modern GPS measurements were available." - Matthew Kepnes

https://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blogs/things-to-see-and-do-quito/

Av. Manuel Córdova Galarza SN, Quito 170311, Ecuador Get directions

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