The Equator

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This is the same design created by pre Incan civilizations – here designed by scientists measuring the exact center of the world! The sun rises and sets against the mountain peaks creating a point of orientation to measure the seasons for planting, preparing for harvest, for rain, for procreating, for “seasons” that don’t exist here…. and for passing of life.

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We stop again at Quitsato – the 0.0.0 degree center of the world – on a site reconstructed in the last few short years to explain this center of the world – discovered long before the Spanish conquistadors brought their ways to the Americas. Here is Michael standing between North and South!

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Good bye! This is the view we had right beside the airport – out to the Cotopaxi volcano to the south of Quito! Unbelievable skies. Machisimas gracias, Ecuador!

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