Arts
This beloved actor, singer, and songwriter during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema recorded 366 songs in genres related to mariachi, rancheras, and bolero.
Pedro Infante
This starchy root vegetable is often used to make chips or fries in Caribbean and South American cooking.
yuca (cassava)
This Chilean poet was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gabriela Mistral
This red-haired Mexican boxer, has won world titles in four weight classes and is one of the most successful fighters of his generation.
Saul Canelo Alvarez
This university in Mexico is famous for scientific research and earthquake monitoring.
UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
This Puerto Rican-American composer, lyricist, and actor created the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
This South American drink is made from dried yerba leaves and traditionally sipped from a gourd.
(yerba) mate
In this magical realist novel, Tita communicates emotions through food.
Like Water for Chocolate
This sport reflects Argentina’s heritage and is played on horseback and combines elements of polo and basketball.
Pato
This Peruvian scientist invented wind portable wind turbines to capture atmospheric water for desert communities.
Max Hidalgo Quinto
This Mexican singer-songwriter and LGBT icon became famous for her ranchera ballads and defied gender norms.
Chavela Vargas
This cheesy bread from Brazil is made with tapioca flour and eaten as a snack or breakfast item.
pão de queijo
Dominican poet, writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by congress in 1984, and member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.
Pedro Mir
He became the first Latin American to win an Olympic medal in gymnastics, which elevated Brazil as a gymnastics powerhouse.
Arthur Zanetti
This agricultural research site in Lima, Peru, developed potato varieties that can grow at elevations above 4,000 meters.
The International Potato Center