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Avenida Orellana y Avenida Amazonas

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Quito to La Mitad del Mundo

actually

250 meters

off centre

Pyramid

of

latitude and longitude

GPS-confirmed Museo Inti-Nan

actually

the centre

of

earth’s

curvature

earth’s

hemispheres

earth’s

lobes

Near, though

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Thank you

Incas

everywhere

Thank you

Ecuador’s

mestizos

criollos

quechuas

Chirrera, Jama Coaque, Tolita, Machalilla, Valdivia

Thank you

Lago Titicaca

Manco Capac

Machu Picchu

memory quipus

Merci

Charles Marie de Condamine

rubber, quinine, metrics, circumference

Gracias

Juan Montalvo’s Las Cantilinarias

thoughts, views, language

Gracias

Jorge Icaza Coronel’s Huasipungo

novel, history, memory

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Quito zodiac

to cruise ship

isle for isle

turtle-journey

to

Las Galápagos

Islas de Colón

Archipiélago de Colón

Islas de las Galápagos

vertical arrow diving frigates

at home blue-footed boobies

herons on one foot watching

at home huge gulping pelicans

swallow tailed gulls on sentinel duty

Darwin’s finches

(one upon my shoe)