To mark the new year in Ecuador, how are effigies destroyed? Effigies are papier mache sculptures depicting images of the past year ornately built to be destroyed in order to symbolically cleanse the spirit for the coming year.

In Ecuador, people traditionally burn the New Year’s effigies, often in the street, to symbolize leaving the past year behind and cleansing the spirit for the year ahead. So the correct choice is “burned on the street.”

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