Geoguessr, Latin America

metas for latin america

Portuguese language

🇧🇷 Brazil uses the Portuguese language which includes the 'Ç' and 'ã' characters.

Reddish sidewalk tiles

🇨🇴 Colombia often use reddish tiles on sidewalks.

🇧🇷 Brazil

Most Brazilian road signs have the backs painted black.

🇨🇱 Chile

In Chile, square concrete poles with indents on both sides are common. They are similar to Brazilian poles but have fewer horizontal supports in the indent. The upper part usually features small pinholes.

🇪🇨 Ecuador

Ecuador frequently uses road signs that are square with white background.

🇵🇪 Peru

In Peru, sign poles are distinctively striped in black and white. Also, they are often being set in solid concrete blocks that are elevated above ground level.

🇺🇾 Uruguay

In Uruguay, roads often feature triple lines, consisting of double yellow lines with white dashes in between. This design is not found elsewhere in the Americas.

🇦🇷 Argentina

In Argentina, it's common to see round concrete poles supporting three electricity lines arranged in an alternating pattern.

🇧🇷 Brazil

In Brazil, roads typically have double yellow lines in the middle and white outer lines.

Transparent satellite dishes

🇧🇷 Brazil often has transparent satellite dishes.

Black and white arrows

🇺🇾 Uruguayan has many of these black and white arrows affixed to walls and poles.

Rudimentary wooden fences

🇨🇴 Colombia has many of these rudimentary wooden fences.

🇦🇷 Argentina

Argentinian roads have these small black and white milestone signs on small posts. They always show the kilometre of the road, and sometimes show "RN" (Argentinian National Roads) or "RP: (Provincial Road).

Unique bus stops

🇨🇱 Chile has many of these bus stop shelters.

🇦🇷 Argentina

Some plates in Argentina have a black blob in the middle. Others are white with a top blue bar like in Brazil.

🇵🇪 Peru

Peruvian poles have 3 arms sticking out like this.

🇨🇴 Colombia

In Colombia, it's common to see crosses on the backs of road signs. Also, Colombian signs use unique thin poles, which sometimes are painted white.

🇨🇱 Chile

This is a kilometer milestone marker in Chile.

Back of Google car visibile

🇨🇱 Chile's Google car often has its white rear visible.

Many bollards with red elements

🇪🇨 Ecuador has many bollards. They are either round with two red stripes or flat with two red reflectors on a black background.

Side taxi license plates

🇨🇴 Colombian taxis often have license plates printed on their side.

Tuktuks

🇵🇪 Peru is the only Latin America country that has Tuktuks.

Square electricity counters

🇵🇪 Peru has these rectangular electricity counters with a rectangular section within them.

Square electricity counters

🇲🇽 Mexico has these circular-shaped electricity counters

Black water tanks

🇲🇽 Mexico has these large black water tanks atop many houses.

Black Google car

🇦🇷 Argentina, 🇺🇾 Uruguay, and some of 🇵🇪 Peru have a black Google car.

ALTO stop sign

Mexican stop signs use the word "ALTO"

🇧🇷 Brazil

Commercial vehicles in Brazil have a red license plate. Non-commercial vehicles have long white plates, sometimes with a top blue bar.

🇨🇴 Colombia

Colombia uses yellow license plates.

🇪🇨 Ecuador & 🇨🇱 Chile

In Ecuador and Chile, commercial vehicles such as taxis have orange license plates.

🇧🇷 Brazil

Brazilian highways are labeled "BR-XXX". Regional highways are labeled "YY-XXX" with YY being the state abbreviation.

🇺🇾 Uruguay

The green-painted stone kilometre marker is a unique feature found in Uruguay.

🇨🇴 Colombia

In Colombia, two types of kilometer markers are used: a tall green version with "Pr" at the top and a traditional stone marker with black lettering, both unique to the country.

🇺🇾 Uruguay

Sign posts in Uruguay are typically thick, white, and wooden.

🇨🇱 Chile

Chilean road signs are mounted on poles that are quite thin and often have a slot at the top of the signpost.

🇧🇴 Bolivia

In many parts of Bolivia, road signs are mounted on thick, unpainted posts.

🇧🇷 Brazil

In Brazil, the most common utility poles resemble a ladder at the bottom portion. They are rectangular with long segments running along the bottom and have small holes near the top.

🇪🇨 Ecuador

In Ecuador, most utility poles have a generic round and concrete design. However, there's another type of pole (the 'ladder pole') with numerous small indents resembling ladder steps. This type of pole is more or less unique to Ecuador within Latin America.

🇲🇽 Mexico & 🇺🇾 Uruguay

Mexico and Uruguay feature three upward-facing bulbs that makes the pole resemble a trident.

🇲🇽 Mexico & 🇨🇴 Colombia

Maxico and Colombia have octagonal poles. They tend to be more prevalent in Mexico.

🇦🇷 Argentina

In Argentina, road lines frequently consist of white dashes in the center alongside a continuous yellow line.

🇨🇱 Chile

In Chile, all-white or all-yellow road lines are common. Be aware that Argentina also sometimes has all-white roads, but not all-yellow.

Yellow-on-black chevrons

🇧🇷 Brazil mostly uses yellow-on-black chevrons.

Red-on-white chevrons

🇦🇷 Argentina mostly uses red-on-white chevrons.

Striped traffic light poles

🇺🇾 Uruguay traffic lights are often mounted on poles with black/white or black/yellow stripes

Double guardrails

🇪🇨 Ecuador frequently uses double guardrails.

Overcast grassy landscape

A typical scenario in Uruguay often includes overcast weather and landscapes dominated by open grasslands with gentle hills. The roads here are generally in poorer condition compared to those in neighboring countries.