Unit 9: The Americas
South America consists of 12 independent countries:
➢ Argentina
➢ Bolivia
➢ Brazil
➢ Chile
➢ Colombia,
➢ Ecuador
➢ Guyana
➢ Paraguay
➢ Peru
➢ Suriname
➢ Uruguay
➢ Venezuela
More facts:
● There are still many indigenous tribes there
● Home to the Amazon Rainforest
● More than 300 languages are spoken there
● Spanish is the commonly spoken language
● In Brazil, Portuguese is spoken primarily
● In South America is the Atamaca desert (the driest place on earth)
● Brazil is the largest country there
● Mountain Aconcagua is the largest mountain outside of Asia, and it is 6962 meters high
● Tons of natural resources
● Sao Paulo, Brail, is one of the ten biggest cities in the entire world.
● The Amazon river (second biggest river in the world)
● In South America, evidence of human life dates to 10,000 BC
● When the Europeans arrived in South America, the Incas were the largest tribe
● Central America connects it to North America South America Map:
North America Map: