MAS FACIL - 100
By volume, this is the largest river in the world.
What is the Amazon?
This country is known for its hot herbal infusion of yerba mate.
What is Argentina? (Uruguay acceptable answer)
This is one of the two landlocked countries in South and Central America. (You only need to name one of the two.)
What is Bolivia/Paraguay?
Of these people - Simón Bolívar, San Martín, José Martí, Pedro Tomás de Chile, only this one is NOT considered one of the freedom fighters of Latin America.
Who is Pedro Tomás de Chile? (a made up name)
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all celebrate their independence day on this date, the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month
What is September 15?
This isthmus connects North and South America.
What is Panamá?
This country’s Caribbean coastal region is the origin of the cumbia music and dance style, combining African, European, and indigenous influences.
What is Colombia?
This food staple, now eaten across the entire United States, originates from Mesoamerican civilizations.
What is corn (maiz)?
The spectacled bear species that inspired the Paddington books and movies calls this mountain range home.
What are the Andes?
The Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo celebrates an unexpected 1862 victory at the Battle of Puebla against this modern European nation.
What is France?
This Hispanic country shares the Caribbean’s second-largest island (Hispaniola) with Haiti.
What is the Dominican Republic?
This Central American country was separated from Colombia in 1903.
What is Panamá?
The only tropical rainforest in the United States is located here.
Where is Puerto Rico?
Angel Falls, which inspired Paradise Falls in the Pixar movie Up, is the world's longest uninterrupted waterfall and is located in this country.
What is Venezuela?
Neruda, Mistral, Paz, Marquez, Asturias, and Vargas Llosa are all Latin Americans who have won this prize, despite two of them having had a fistfight.
What is the Nobel Prize for Literature? (The fight was between Marquez and Vargas Llosa)
Although Brazil is part of Latin America, it is not considered a Hispanic country for this reason.
What is the language is Portuguese?
This dance form, recognized by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage, originated in the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay.
What is tango?
This capital is the oldest continuously inhabited city founded by Europeans in the Americas.
The river that forms the natural border between Texas and Mexico has this big name.
What is the Río Grande/Río Bravo?
México celebrates its independence on this date.
What is September 16?
The equator passes directly through all of these countries - Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil - EXCEPT this one.
What is Venezuela?
This Central American country, known for its wildlife, abolished its army in 1949.
What is Costa Rica?
These waterfalls, considered one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World, connect Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina.
What are Iguazú Falls?
The official languages of this country are Spanish and Guaraní.
What is Paraguay?
What are Bogotá, Quito, and Lima?