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South America The river Amazon is also very wide and deep

Most of South America lies in the Southern and holds a very large volume of water.
Hemisphere. It is the fourth largest continent of The temperate grasslands called the Pampas are
the world. It has the World’s longest mountain mainly found in Argentina and Uruguay. Animal
range called the Andes and the longest river, the rearing is one of the important occupations of the
Amazon. It is connected to the North American people in this region. The Brazilian rainforests in
continent by the Isthmus of Panama. Like the Amazon Basin are the largest and thickest of
Himalayas, the Andes also have three main their kind in the world. They are considered very
parallel ranges and are young fold mountains. important to the climate of the world.
The continent is dominated by Highlands like the
Brazilian, Guiana and Patagonia. The Brazilian
The continents of North America and South America
Highland, like the Deccan Plateau in India,
are linked by a narrow stretch of land bisected by the
consists of old hard rocks. The world’s highest
Panama Canal What is this landform called?
waterfall, the Angel Falls, 979-meter-high is in the
north of Guiana Highland.
CARIBBEAN Grenada
SEA Santa Marta Maracaibo La Tortuga Margarita
Barranquilla CARACAS TRINIDAD &
TOBAGO
Cartagena Valencia Barcelona
Sincelejo L.Maracaibo N O R T H
Merida Orinoco Ciudad
Bolivar
Monteria
Bucaramanga Cucuta V E N E Z U E L A GEORGETOWN
Medellin Arauca Puerto Carreno Bartica New Amsterdam
Puerto Linden PARAMARIBO A T L A N T I C
Tunja Angel Falls
Manizales Ayacucho Cayenne
Pereira BOGOTA GUYANA FRENCH
Buenaventura Cali COLoMBIA Guaviare SURINAME GUIANA Belem-Liverpool
(FRANCE)
Neiva
Boa Vista O C E A N
Popayan Marudi Amapa
Tumaco San Carlos Caracarai
Esmeraldas Pasto Caqueta Mitu Icana Macapa
Ibarra
QUITO La Pedrera Negro Obidos
Portoviejo ECUADOR Putumayo Japura Belem
Amazon
Guayaquil Riobamba Napo Manaus Santarem Altamira Sao Luis
Cuenca Iquitos Amazon Tucurui Parnaiba
Machala Leticia Reservoir Bacabal Sobral Fortaleza
Talara Tapajos Itaituba
Loja Jurua Madeira
Sullana Piura Mayobamba Maraba Teresina Mossoro Macau
Chachapoyas Purus Natal
Chiclay Ucayali Carolina
Cajamarca Humaita Joao Pessoa
Trujillo Pucallpa Teles Pires Tocantins Recife
Rio Branco Porto Velho
Chimbote P Sobradinho
Huanuco Aripuana Juazeiro Maceio
Reservoir
E
Cerro de Pasco Cobija Riberalta Arinos
LIMA R Madre de Dios B R A Z I L Aracaju
Callao Guapore Alagoinhas
Huancayo
U Salvador
Cuzco
Ica Mato Grosso Sao Francisco
Trinidad
Juliaca Goias BRASILIA Januaria Ilheus
Mamore
Lake Tuicaca Cuiaba
La Paz
Arequipa Goiania
B O L I V I A Montes Claros
Mollendo
Tacna Oruro Santa Cruz Coxim
SUCRE Diamantina
Arica Araguari Governador
Lake Poopo Corumba Valadares
Potosi Belo Horizonte
Iquique Villa Montes Campo Grande Vitoria
Tarija Paraguay Parana
Tocopilla Rio de Campos
Calama Janeiro
PA R A G U AY Londrina Campinas Niteroi
Antofagasta San Salvador Sao Paulo
San Pedro Ponta Grossa Santos
Salta
ASUNCION Curitiba
San Miguel Villarrica Iguacu Falls
Chanaral de Tucuman Joinville
San Felix I (CHILE) Encarnacion Bluemenau
San Ambrosio I (CHILE) Copiapo Resistencia Santa Rosa
Catamarca Florianopolis
Vallenar Salado Parana Corrientes Uruguay Passo Fundo
La Rioja Santa Maria Porto Alegre
La Serena Uruguaiana
Coquimbo Cordoba L. Mar Salto Bage Pelotas
San Juan Chiquita
Santa Fe Parana Paysandu Rio Grande
Mendoza Melo S O U T H
Valparaiso Rosario URUGUAY
SANTIAGO Mercedes
BUENOS AIRES MONTEVIDEO
Juan Fernandez San Fernando
(CHILE) La Plata
Curico A T L A N T I C
Talca Santa Rosa
Talcahuano A R G E N T I N A
Concepcion Los Angeles Bahia Blanca Tandil Mar del Plata
Temuco Tres Arroyos O C E A N
Neuquen
Valdivia San Antronio Oeste
Osotno Viedma
San Carlos
Puerto Montt de Bariloche
Chiloe I Rawson
Comodoro
Coihaique Rivadavia
San Julian
Wellington I Falkland Is
(U.K.)
Rio Gallegos W.Falkland Stanley
E.Falkland
Magellan's Strait
Punta Arenas Tierra del Fuego South Georgia
(U.K.)
Ushuaia
Staten I
Beagle Channel
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