Translation of effective in Spanish

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The jet lag could be felt. We entered the floating village. People were actually living in boat houses and most of them seemed very poor. Their main income source was fishing and tourism.
Instead, we gave him one of our Swiss chocolates as a gift so he would leave us alone. It worked: the boy went to the couple sitting next to us and tried to sell our Swiss chocolate for 2 Pesos.