The winning numbers for a smaller Spanish lottery, called “el Nino”, will be announced January 6. And it got the nickname “El Gordo” (“The Fat One”) for a reason: it’s worth billions.
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This year’s top prize – the eponymous El Gordo, or The Fat One – went to the coastal tourist town of Roquetas de Mar, in the southern province of Almeria, where a group of residents will share at least €452 million (NZ$728 million).
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The Gordo lottery first took place in Cádiz in 1812 and has not missed a year since, even continuing through Spain’s civil war between 1936 and 1939. Winners sometimes comprise of joint friends and families, and these share the lottery award to make Christmas fun.
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By some estimates, up to 75 percent of the population of Spain participates in El Gordo in one way or another.
Many then stayed glued to TV screens for hours more as schoolchildren plucked lottery balls from a rotating drum, singing out the resulting numbers in a chant that filled offices and homes.
Standard tickets cost 20 euros.
Organizers said ticket sales totaled 2.5 billion euros this year, up 4.5 percent from last year. Times have been hard in all of Spain recently, but they’ve been especially hard in Roquetas de Mar, a beach town of about 85,000 people, some 358 miles south of Madrid, on the Mediterranean Sea.
Town comes with an unemployment rate of over 30% – higher in relation to the national average of 21% – and agriculture and tourism are the primary sectors.
“I’m really happy and I congratulate all the winners”. “It’s very important for the town, especially in the hard times we’ve been facing”. Although it’s operated out of Spain, anyone in the world can buy a ticket online.
Other lotteries have larger individual top prizes but El Gordo is ranked as the world’s richest for the total sum paid out in thousands of prizes.
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But Spaniards all over the nation shared in the wealth because their lottery system doles out prizes much more broadly than lotteries with huge jackpots for just a few winners.
