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The Mitad del Mundo monument stands center chest on the front — the cylindrical tower at San Antonio de Pichincha that marks the calculated equatorial line, the point where the earth splits into two hemispheres. Below the country name, a rose: Ecuador grows more cut roses than almost any country on earth, most of them in the highlands around Cayambe and Cotopaxi, most of them leaving the country before anyone in Ecuador sees them bloom. On the back, a sombrero de paja toquilla sits left of the number — the toquilla straw hat woven in Montecristi and Cuenca that the world calls a Panama hat. Inside the zero: a Galápagos giant tortoise, the animal that helped Darwin understand what he was looking at.