What is the capital and city of the equator monument in South America?

The Equator Monument is in Quito, the capital of Ecuador in South America.

The Equator Monument is located in Gallagari town, northeast of Quito, the capital of Ecuador. It was established to commemorate the equator line measured here by the French and Ecuadorian geographical survey delegations in 1744. The square cylindrical monument is 10 meter high and is made of taupe granite stones. The four sides of the monument are engraved with Spanish letters e, s, o and n, representing the four directions of southeast and northwest. The monument is engraved with the names of geographers who have contributed to measuring the equatorial line since the18th century. At the top of the monument is a globe carved with stone, and there is a white line at the waist of the globe, which is connected with the red and white lines on the steps on the east and west sides of the monument. This is the equatorial line. Visitors here always like to put their feet on both sides of the equatorial line to take pictures to show that they are standing in the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere at the same time.

The most famous landmark of Equatorial Monument Park is of course the Equatorial Monument. This monument was built between 1979 and 1982, with a height of about 30 meters. It is in the shape of an ordinary obelisk, but the top is not a spire, but a copper sphere. When the monument was built, considering that it was just built on the equator, a yellow "equator" was drawn under the monument, and the inscription "Longitude: 78 degrees 27 minutes and 8 seconds west longitude; Latitude: 0 degrees, 0 minutes and 0 seconds ". However, in recent years, with the continuous progress of science and technology, according to the accurate measurement of professional GPS equipment, the monument actually deviates from the equator by about 240 meters and is located at 0 degrees, 0 minutes and 7.83 seconds south latitude.