It was the 12th of February 1949, a Saturday evening, and most of the citizens of Quito, back then a city of a quarter-million people, were in their homes, their radios turned on to Radio Quito. A concert was broadcast. Nobody was thinking about Aliens. Suddenly, the regular program broke off, and radio announcers spread...Read More

There are more than 70 volcanoes in around 300 km that make up the Avenue of the Volcanoes of Ecuador. The German geographer, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt is the one responsible for this name.Read More