Ecuador Travel Guide

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Forget about the provincial 'Four Corners' rest stop of the USA's southwest, in Ecuador you can balance on the globe at Mitad del Mundo -- a monument dedicated to the equator where you can straddle the line between the northern and southern hemispheres. While there enjoy the local museum dedicated to Ecuador's culture. Don't miss the adjacent science-based museum that demonstrates several phenomena special only to the equator (egg balancing, drain swirling, etc.) Geographically sandwiched between Columbia and Peru, with a large Pacific coast, Ecuador historically formed the northern outpost of the Incan empire. Sporting a mostly tropical climate, this equatorial nation hosts an area slightly smaller than Nevada, with a population of 13.5 million citizens. Unlike uniform Nevada, Ecuador possesses a varied topography, from snow-capped summits to Amazonian basins. Ecuador is home to the world's highest active volcano, Cotopaxi, an Andean stratovolcano with an elevation of 19,388 feet. The volcano forms an epicenter of adventure travel activities including: high altitude mountaineering, kayaking, mountain biking, river rafting, Andean trekking and Amazon jungle adventures.

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