(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Official Language- Spanish
17. There is no national food as cuisine varies from region to region. Costeños who live in the La Costa region, favor fish, plantains, and beans. Serranos (from La Sierra region) prefer meat, white hominy, and rice.
27. Kichwa people of Tigua (in the central Sierra region) are known world-wide for their carefully done traditional paintings on sheepskin canvases. Tigua artists use simple themes with vibrant colors in their work.
Population- 17,093,159 (July 2021 est)
39. Forty percent of the adults in Ecuador don’t have access to a bank account.
Currency- United States dollar (USD)
7. As the country became a republic, many coup d’état and dictatorships have been part of the country’s more recent history. It has had 48 presidents in its first 131 years of independence.
21. Several native inland Amazonian tribes managed to avoid both Incan and Spanish conquest. They have preserved their ancient cultural traditions independently of foreign influence.
Land: Colombia and Peru
Borders
coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente)
Terrain
10. Ecuador is one of only two South American countries that do not share a border with Brazil.
44. There are more than 25,000 plant species growing in Ecuador and a minimum of 317 documented mammal species native to the country.
yellow, blue, red
National colors
Government type- presidential republic
32. Chimborazo’s summit is the point on earth closest to the sun and the farthest from the core of the earth, due to the earth’s slide bulge there. This also means that Ecuador is the closest country on earth to outer space.
11. Ecuador is divided into four main and unique geographic regions that have their own diets and contribute to the country’s economy in different ways, according to the natural resources found there. These are the coastal lowlands (La Costa), th
9. In spite its border conflicts, Ecuador has been peaceful in recent years. Presently it is one of the safest South American countries to visit.
20. Spanish is Ecuador’s official language but there are 13 recognized indigenous languages that are also spoken.
42. In Quito water boils at 90°C instead of 100°C. This is a direct effect of altitudes.
14. Ecuador provides the majority of the world’s balsa wood. The country also exports coffee and flowers.
Largest City- Guayaquil
26. Ecuador music is known as Pasillo and is played for dances and festivals, as well as for when men and women in traditional dress perform to the music.
Religion- Roman Catholic 74%, Evangelical 10.4%, Jehovah's Witness 1.2%, other 6.4%
34. The cinchona tree is Ecuador’s national tree. This tree produces Quinine, which was the first drug ever used to treat and prevent malaria.
43. Members of fifteen percent of the bird species in the world can be found in Ecuador. That means that more than 1600 different bird species live in the country.
8. The world’s very first and second UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in Ecuador. The Galápagos Islands is site number one and the capital city of Quito is site number two. These were named at the inaugural World Heritage conference in 1978.
"Salve, Oh Patria!" (We Salute You, Our Homeland)
National anthem
22. Families may be formed through two different methods. Civil marriage is the legally binding bond between a man and a woman. All married couples are required to undergo the legal ceremony. The other method is Free Union, in which a couple deci
5. Ecuador was named after the equator which runs through the country, the only country in the world named after a geographical feature. Its official name, República del Ecuador, literally means “the Republic of the Equator”.
Life expectancy at birth- 77.76 years (2021)
13. Oil accounts for 40 percent of all Ecuador’s exports and 33 percent of the country’s revenues.
31. Ecuador’s Cotopaxi is the highest active volcano in the world.
36. Ecuador was the first nation to ever declare that nature has constitutional rights. In 2008 Ecuador recognized that nature has the “right to exist, persist….and regenerate its vital cycles’, and therefore has constitutional rights. Nature sho
Vice President- Alfredo Borrero
23. If you need health care, you have no worries. Ecuador’s Healthcare System is ranked 20th in the world for quality.
6. Ecuador and Peru battled over control of Ecuador’s Amazon territories for well over a century, in what became the Western Hemisphere’s longest-running dispute over territory. It ended in May of 1999 with both countries signing an agreement.
19. More than 70 percent of Ecuador’s population is made up of Mestizos (an ethnic blend of Spaniards and native people) and the rest includes a significant population of indigenous peoples.
15. Ecuador has used the American Dollar as its national currency since 2000.
2. Ecuador was founded in 1532 by the Spanish, who drove out the Incans to claim it.
Borders Meritime: Costa Rica
29. At the Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a marked line where you can stand with one foot in the Northern Hemisphere and the other foot in the Southern Hemisphere.
1. Before the Incas created settlements in Ecuador, it was inhabited by its Native American peoples.
Capital City- Quito
tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands
Climate
3. Ruled for 300 years from Peru and then by Spanish governors from Colombia, these Spaniards brought to Ecuador their religion, language and architecture. In 1822, this era ended with the achievement of independence. They first declared independ
President- Guillermo Lasso
40. There are more mobile phones than people in Ecuador. The government sees this as an opportunity to test the use of digital currency.
41. Ecuador has a military base in Peru on one perpetually leased square kilometer of their territory.
16. Cuy, or guinea pig, is considered a delicacy in the country. It is roasted whole and its consumption is an ancient tradition. It is said to taste like rabbit.
25. Children are required to attend school until they have achieved a “basic education”. According to the Ministry of Education, this is typically for 6.7 years. Only about 10 percent of all rural students attend high school.
24. Voting is not just a right in Ecuador; it is compulsory for all citizens between the ages of 18 and 65.
Andean condor
National symbol
37. Ecuador has one of the greatest densities of volcanoes on earth. Ecuador was the first country in the history of the world to eliminate the death penalty. They waived it in 1906.
28. The three colors of the Ecuadorian flag are yellow for the country’s diversity, blue for its sea and sky, and red for the blood of the fighters who won their independence.
38. Ecuador maintains a scientific research station in Antarctica. The Antarctica Treaty designated this continent be set aside for research and not for ownership, and Ecuador in a part of that treaty.
4. Simon Bolivar united Ecuador to the territories of what are today Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia to form what was called The Gran Colombia (1819-30). This short-lived country collapsed in 1830 and three separate countries were created from i
30. Charles Darwin made his famous Voyage of the USS Beagle to the Galápagos Islands in 1835. He based his theory of evolution largely on the discoveries and observations he made in the islands.
18. Ecuador is the 9th most biodiverse country in the world and offers much for visitors to see and do.
35. The famous Panama Hat is actually made in Ecuador. Craftsmen on the coast wove straw hats that were taken to Panama to be sold to protect canal workers from the sun. After the canal was complete, they were sold to the affluent Westerners who
12. Ecuador is the world’s largest exporter of bananas, exporting 2.7 billion worth of them annually (23.3% of total banana exports, 2016).
33. Ecuador sees very little change in the length of its days from winter to summer due to its location on the equator. Sunrise and sunset happen every day at around 6:00 am and pm, respectively.
