How to identify ecuador in GeoGuessr?

- The domain is .ec - language is Spain word - The back of the sign is often flat with no unevenness.{{% by %}} - For commercial vehicles such as taxis and buses, the entire license plate or the upper part of the license plate is orange color - Two reflectors are wrapped around the bollard.Two reflectors are attached.

ecuador

clues 15Regions 23Updated 2023-07-01

Quiz ▾Basics ▾Importance

LanguageSpanish

Driving sideDrives on the right

Domain.ec

Easily confused with:Peru, Columbia, IndiaQuizzes for this area:ecuador State Quiz, ecuador City Quiz, Area code quiz (ecuador)

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Whole area7

Clues that work anywhere in this area

Language & Script★★★

The language is Spanish.

Examples1 2

Signs★★★

The backs of signs are often flat, without ridges. They're mounted on plain square or round steel poles, or on steel poles with a dent in them.

Watch outIn Colombia the poles are white with a cross on the back, and in Peru they're usually thick posts with black-and-white stripes. Bolivia uses thick sawn timber.

Examples1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8See alsoColombia Peru Bolivia

Road★★★

Guardrails are often doubled up, one on top of the other.

Examples1 2

Open in Street View2

By Paulo JC Nogueira, CC BY-SA 3.0, image edited

License Plate★★★

Commercial vehicles like taxis, buses, and trucks have orange plates, either the whole plate or the top portion.

TipA green sticker on a taxi points to Quito.

Examples1 2 3SourcesCitizen John (YouTube)

Bollard★★★

Bollards come in many different styles with no real consistency. Ones wrapped with two reflector bands, or with two reflectors attached, or with an unusual round shape, could point to Ecuador.

Examples1 2 3 4

Utility Pole★★★

Utility poles come in many styles. Poles with small partitions or holes running along them are rarely seen anywhere else in South America outside Ecuador.

Examples1 2 3 4 5 6

Building★★★

Gray concrete blocks are often visible on the sides of buildings and similar spots.

Examples1 2

By Juanjo guaman - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

Narrowing down the region7

Once you know the area: which part of it

Area Code

Phone area codes narrow down the region

Phone area codes are assigned by region. When a number shows up on a sign, an advert or a van, its leading digits narrow the location down to a part of the country.

Practise with the area code quiz

Coloured by leading digit

Agriculture

Where Agriculture clues apply6

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roses
shrimp
oil palm
rice paddies
banana
Galápagos Islands

Plants & farming★★★★★

On highlands above 2,500m, long, narrow greenhouses covered in translucent white plastic filling a valley from end to end mean a cut-flower (rose) farm — often set against snow-capped volcanoes in the background, with a foreground that's wall-to-wall greenhouses.

Examples1 2 3SourcesGreenhouses of Cayambe Valley - NASA Earth ObservatorySee alsoColombia

Where

Greenhouses lining the floor of a basin (photo from Cundinamarca, Colombia)

Plants & farming★★★★

On low-lying land near a river mouth or the coast, a grid of shallow square ponds divided by low dikes means shrimp farming. Look for waterwheel-style aerators spinning at the pond edges and scraps of mangrove left standing nearby.

SourcesWarmwater shrimp social risk profile — Ecuador 2025 - Seafood Watch (share by province)

Where

Shrimp ponds laid out in a grid (coastal Ecuador)

Plants & farming★★★

Oil palm plantations are common in the northern province of Esmeraldas and the central province of Los Ríos, and are also found in the eastern province of Sucumbíos and elsewhere. Roads near the Colombian border and along the E20 highway are especially tree-lined.

Examples1 2 3 4SourcesUSDA - International Production Assessment Division Reports INEC - ESPAC 2023 Boletín técnico (provincial share by crop)

Where

Rows of uniformly tall oil palms (photo from Indonesia)

Plants & farming★★★

Rice paddies are common in river basins such as the Babahoyo River, which flows into Guayaquil.

Examples1 2 3 4SourcesCosts to Ecuador's rice sector during the first decade of an apple snail invasion and policy recommendations for regions at risk USDA - International Production Assessment Division Reports INEC - ESPAC 2023 Boletín técnico (rice share by province)

Where

Lush green rice paddies (photo from Tamil Nadu, India)

Plants & farming★★★

Banana plantations turn up in areas with a lot of flat land, especially Los Ríos, Guayas, and El Oro.

Examples1 2SourcesEcuadoriaN BananA RegionS INEC - ESPAC 2023 Boletín técnico (banana share by province)

Where

Other★★★

The Galápagos Islands sometimes show up.

Examples1See alsoGalápagos Islands

Where

Photo coming soonOther

Terrain

Landscape★★★★

A road running straight north-south through a wide basin flanked by high mountain ranges, with snow-capped conical volcanoes on either side, points to the Sierra (the central Andes). The biggest clue is seeing a snow line despite being right on the equator.

SourcesGeography of Ecuador - Wikipedia (mountain ranges and major volcanoes)

Where

A conical volcano towering over farmland (Cotopaxi)

Narrowing down the city1

Once you know the region: which city or town

Cayambe volcano

Other★★★

Northeast of Quito, there's a road up to Cayambe, one of the tallest mountains in Ecuador. Trees stop growing as the elevation rises.

Examples1 2 3 4 5

Where

Regions

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Quiz

Basics

General facts about this place

The name means "equator" in Spanish, and the equator crosses the country^[ref]
One of the world's leading exporters of bananas, with oil also a major export^[ref]

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