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The main factor that determines climate in the Andes
What is altitude?
100
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
100
The region's mountain range
What is the Andes?
100
The church that was most important during Spanish colonization
What is the Roman Catholic church?
100
The most popular sport of the region
What is football (soccer)?
200
The "hot land" of the Andean zone.
What is the tierra caliente
200

Name of the Argentinian president that was overthrown

Juan Peron?

200
A series of parallel mountain ranges
What is a cordillera?
200

An illegal seizure of power

What is a coup?

200
The style of literature popular in Latin America
What is magic realism?
300
The most densely populated Andean zone
What is the tierra templada?
300
South American independence leader that later became president of Gran Colombia
Who is Simon Bolivar?
300
A high plain in Peru and Bolivia
What is the altiplano?
300
The region that Argentina and the British went to war over
What is the Falkland Islands?
300
The largest port and cultural center of Argentina
What is Buenos Aires?
400
The Andean zone with the highest altitude
What is the tierra helada?
400
Chilean leader, popular with the working class, that was overthrown and killed during a military coup in 1973
Who is Salvador Allende?
400

An area where the ocean tide meets a river current

What is an estuary?

400
Traditional Bolivian healers that use rituals and herbs in their cures
Who are the Kallawaya?
400
The percentage of Argentina's population that live in its capital
What is 25%?
500
The Andean zone containing forests and grassy areas
What is the tierra fria?
500

Argentinian leader who rebeled against the Spanish, using guerilla warfare

Who is San Jose de San Martin?

500

The landlocked country of the region that has no outlet to the sea

What is Paraguay?

500
The Incan leader when the Spanish took over
Who was Atahualpa?
500

Name of the Native American group in Paraguay that still influences culture today

What is Guarani?