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This country is the furthest north in Latin America.
What is Mexico?
This explorer "discovered" the Americas when he landed on what is the island of Hispaniola.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Caribbean Islands stay warm year round because they are located here.
What is the tropics or tropical zone?
What country has one of the largest populations in South America? (Not Brazil)
What is Colombia?
The equator crosses through these 3 Latin American countries.
What is Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil?
This remarkable and ambitious feat of engineering completed in 1914 expanded global trade routes in the 20th century.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was the largest and most powerful indigenous culture of South America, which included parts of present-day Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.
What is the Incan Empire?
Cuba was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to have this kind of government system.
What is communism?
This region is home to the world's largest river, longest mountain range and driest desert.
What is South America?
The Amazon River Basin is found in this continent.
What is South America?
She became became the voice of the poor and working class in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s, and was an icon for women's rights.
Who was Eva "Evita" Perón?
Latin American countries share this dominant religion.
What is Catholicism?
This country is one of the world’s top exporters of coffee, sugar, and orange juice.
What is Brazil?
Latin America is defined by these type of languages, derived from Latin, which are predominantly spoken in the region.
What are Romance languages?
Nicknamed “El Libertador” (the liberator) for helping nations become independent from Spain, he was the most powerful leader in South America in the late 1700s.
Who was Simón Bolívar?
What culture had the greatest influence on music and dance of the Caribbean countries of Latin America?
What is the African culture?
This major desert is located along the Pacific Coast in South America.
What is the Atacama Desert?