Are Dora and Diego from anywhere in particular?

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All parents of preschool children know Dora the Explorer and Diego, her animal rescuer cousin. My question is; where the hell do they live?

They speak Spanish and the setting of “Go Diego Go” is clearly somewhere in a Latin American rain forest (but presumably not Brazil or French Guiana, given the Spanish) since he mostly helps New World animals. Diego’s clueless nemeses, the Bobo Brothers, are supposed to be spider monkeys, but spider monkeys can be found from Mexico to Brazil so that’s not a lot of help. There’s a lot of visual cues to their culture - Carnivale, various accoutrements of dress - but is it all just Generic Latin American, or are they supposed to live in a specific place? Is there any indication of what specific place influences the choices of cultural references?

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I have wondered this, too…my conclusion is Generic Latin American…they don’t seem to have any clues that ties it down to a specific place.

The show scares me…my 3-year-old, generally non-girly daughter giggles like a teeny-bopper when she sees Diego. Apparently, he is Hot Stuff.

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This question came up in a meeting at work the other day, and the official answer is that there is no answer. The keep her nationality deliberatly non-specific.

And by official, I do mean official: the meeting was for a Dora-related video game, and the answer was provided by Nickelodeon.

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Dora lives inside a computer: the opening to early episodes depicts a live-action computer, and a mouse arrow often appears to point her on her way. Whether this means Diego lives inside a computer too, I am unsure.

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So it’s sort of a Latin American Matrix thing? :smiley:
“Unfortunately, no one can be TOLD what the backpack is…you have to see it for yourself.”

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I’ve waited my whole life to say something that cool.

Kinda like saying “Well, yeah, I AM a Rocket Scientist.”

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Makes sense- you can’t announce she’s from Honduras, then the Guatamalans wouldn’t watch, etc.