Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'City of Quito' has mentioned 'Equator' in the following places:
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| Quito (/xcbx88kixcbx90toxcax8a/; Spanish pronunciation:xc2xa0[xcbx88kito] (listen); Quechua: Kitu; formally Saint Francis of Quito) is the capital of Ecuador and at an elevation of 2,850xc2xa0m (9,350xc2xa0ft) above sea level, it is the second highest official capital city in the world, and the closest to the equator. | WIKI |
| [5] The central square of Quito is located about 25 kilometers (16xc2xa0mi) south of the equator; the city itself extends to within about 1 kilometer (0.62xc2xa0mi) of zero latitude. | WIKI |
| A monument and museum marking the general location of the equator is known locally as la mitad del mundo (the middle of the world), to avoid confusion, as the word Ecuador is Spanish for equator. | WIKI |
| Quito is the closest capital city to the equator. | WIKI |
| Because of its altitude and location on the equator, Quito has a fairly constant cool climate. | WIKI |
| The fact that Quito lies almost on the equator means that high pressure systems are extremely rare. | WIKI |
| The monument at the equator (La Mitad del Mundo) | WIKI |
| It has since been determined, with the use of Global Positioning System technology, that the actual equator is some 240 meters (790xc2xa0ft) north of the monument area. | WIKI |
| Nearby is the Intixc3xb1an Solar Museum, which may be closer to the true equator. | WIKI |
| [54] The Intixc3xb1an Solar Museum provides a demonstration which purports to show the Coriolis force causing a clockwise rotation of sink water a few meters south of the equator and a counterclockwise rotation a few meters north,[55] but many scientific sources claim that this is implausible. | WIKI |