Apparently the last South American war was in 1995, but it’s perhaps surprising to look back at how few conflicts there have been between two countries on the continent in recent history.
Questions
Shared with the name of a city in Chile, which culture from around 3,500 to 1,500 BC that existed in Ecuador is known for its female figurines?
VALDIVIA (CULTURE)
Ecuador’s Valdivia culture was preceded by a culture that shared its name with which American city? There is a period between the two that lacks evidence of habitation for around 1,000 years.
LAS VEGAS (CULTURE)
Finding use in histology and linguistics among numerous others, what word can be used to describe a gap in a manuscript or a missing piece of history, an example being the time between the Las Vegas and Valdivia cultures in Ecuador?
LACUNA
Situated west of Guayaquil, in which coastal Ecuadorian province that lies on the peninsula of the same name did the Las Vegas and Valdivia cultures flourish?
SANTA ELENA
Taking place in 1995, the Fourth Ecuadorian-Peruvian War was fought around the headlands of which river that is included in the most popular name for this conflict and the disputed area the two countries were fighting over? Following mediation, the demarcation of the border was settled by the 1998 Brasilia Presidential Act.
CENAPA
Elaborate figurines from the Jama-Coaque culture of Ecuador’s coastal province of Manabí can be found in the Walters Art Museum in which American city? Its collection of Ancient American art also displays artefacts from the Valdivia culture.
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BALTIMORE
Found in Ecuador’s Cañar province, which Incan ruins have the stand out feature of a temple that has been designed so that the sun shines through a doorway at the solstices?
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INGAPIRCA
Sharing its name with an ancient culture, which coastal National Park and Ramsar Wetland in Ecuador’s Manabí province includes the Isla de la Plata, a place where Francis Drake allegedly hid a hoard of treasure?
MACHALILLA
Studied by Alexander von Humboldt a few years after the event, a 1797 earthquake that saw thousands of casualties is named for which city that is now capital of Ecuador’s Chimborazo province?
RIOBAMBA
Inspiring a short story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which Ecuadorian city played host to an 1822 conference that saw independence heroes José de San Martin and Simón Bolivar discuss their differing ideas for the future of the South American continent?
GUAYAQUIL