Geography of South America Geography of South America ABC countries is a term sometimes used to describe the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, which are seen as three of the most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America. ...more on Wikipedia about "ABC countries"
The Darwin Sound forms a westward continuation of the Beagle Channel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart Island, not far from the southern tip of South America. It thus forms a navigable link across Tierra del Fuego between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as an alternative to going round the hazardous rocky headland of Cape Horn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darwin Sound"
This is a list of the extreme points of South America, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. The continent's southernmost point is often said to be Cape Horn, which is the southernmost point of the Chilean islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Extreme points of South America"
The Gran Chaco ( Quechua chaqu, "hunting land"), dubbed by some as "the last South American frontier", is an arid, sparsely populated, very hot, semi-desertic, lowland region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in Brazil called Mato Grosso. It is about 647,500 square kilometres in size, though estimates differ, and located west of the Paraguay River and east of the Andes in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. It stretches from about 17° to 33° South latitude and between 65° and 60° West longitude, though estimates differ in this case too. Closer to the mountains in the west, the Alto Chaco, is very dry and sparsely vegetated, but going eastward to the Bajo Chaco one encounters lots of thornbrush jungle with quebracho trees and grassy clearings with a wealth of insects. The landscape is mostly flat and slopes at a 0.04 degree gradient to the east. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gran Chaco"
This is a list of islands of South America. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of islands of South America"
Mata Atlântica is the Atlantic Coastal Rain Forest formerly covering the wet coastal hills along the Atlantic coast of Brazil (mostly in the Serra do Mar), and also extending inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones province of Argentina. Mata Atlântica is a characteristic biome, now designated a World Biosphere Reserve, which contains a large number of highly endangered species including the well known marmosets and golden lion tamarins. It has been extensively cleared since colonial times, mainly for the farming of sugar cane and for urban settlements. The remnant is estimated to be less than 10% of the original and that is often broken into hilltop islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mata Atlântica"
Maynas was one of the missions the jesuits created in South America. The missionaries started their descent from Quito in Ecuador mostly using the Rio Napo as their route. They used the common missionary tools found in other jesuits missions like Paraguay, Chiquitania, Moxos or Orinoco. In difference to other areas the indians belonged to different tribes and languages. The missions expanded under Samuel Fritz SJ (who traveled all the way to Belem and drew the first map of the amazon) until what is today Manaos. This provoked trouble with Portuguese sklave hunters, which travelled from Belem upstream. It never was stable or properous as the missions in Paraquay but as one result Portuguese influence was stopped and the upper parts of the Amazone baisin are belonging to spanish-speaking countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pais de los Maynas"
Tierra templada ( Spanish for temperate land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to places within that realm which are either located in the tropics at a moderately high elevation, or are marginally outside the astronomical tropics, producing a somewhat cooler overall climate than that found in the tropical lowlands, the zone of which is known as the tierra caliente. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tierra templada"
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