Physical Geography
This river is about 4,000 miles long.
What is the Amazon River?
Hunting, fishing, and small scale farming.
What is a way of life developed thousands of years ago?
The capital of Argentina.
Where is Buenos Aires?
The capitol of Colombia.
What is Bogota?
Lima is the largest city in the region.
What is Peru's capital?
The region's longest river.
What is the Orinoco River?
This event happened in the 1800s.
When did Brazil become a major coffee production region?
These people are called gauchos.
What are Argentine cowboys called?
This happened for 40 years.
When was the Civil War?
A sudden overthrow of a government by a small group of people.
What is a coup?
A mountain system made up of roughly parallel ranges.
What is the Andes Cordillera?
This happened in the late 1600's and the early 1700's.
When was gold and precious gems found?
Uruguay declared independence from Spain.
What happened in 1825?
Giant mounds of Earth, mysterious statues, and tombs.
What are marks of people who lived in Colombia?
In the 1980's and 1990's, a terrorist group was active.
What was the Shining Path?
Northern Chile contains this desert that is about 600 miles long.
Where is the Atacama Desert?
A Percent of Brazilians are Catholic.
What is 75% of Brazil?
This person helped improve the living conditions of people in Argentina, particularly the poor.
Who was Eva Peron?
People began struggling for independence.
What happened in the late 1700's?
A massive quake killed about 500 Chileans.
What happened on February 27, 2010?
This country has large oil and gas reserves.
What is Ecuador?
A Percent of people live in and around Sao Paulo.
What is 40% of Brazil?
New immigrants arrived from these three places.
What is Italy, Germany, and Spain?
Four million people lived there.
Where is catacas?
Most people speak Native languages than Spanish in this area.
Where is Peru?