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Prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics near Earth's equator
What are trade winds?
The mountain range in southern Guatemala that is the country's dominant feature.
What are the Sierra Madre de Chiapas?
This lake is home to fresh water sharks?
What is Lake Nicaragua?
The statue of Christ overlooks this city and is perched atop Mount Corcodavo.
What is Rio De Janeiro?
This is Latin America's dominant faith.
What is Roman Catholicism?
In Latin America, a person of mixed white and black descent.
What is mulatto?
The border between these two countries is the Darien Gap.
What are Panama and Columbia?
What rainforest is the most biologically diverse region in the world?
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Machu Picchu is associated with this culture.
What is Inca?
These countries are increasing in Evangelical Protestantism.
What are Honduras, Guatemala and Brazil?
Attempted fusion of disparate or contradictory systems of thought or belief.
What is syncretism?
This feature was the best water route through the America until 1914.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
These animals live in the Darien Gap.
What are the tree frog, sloth, spider monkey, anteater, toucan, parrot, and crocodile?
This country has territorial disputes with Chile over Patagonia.
What is Argentina?
Who ran the missions in Latin and South America?
Who are monks and priests?
Sudden, unconstitutional deposition of government.
What is coup d'etat?
Most geographers agree that this river is the second longest river in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
This explorer founded the city of Lima, Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
These countries are large producers of coffee.
What are Brazil, Peru and Argentina?
This country has the highest percentage of Catholicism in Latin America.
What is Ecuador?
To transfer a production task or element out of the country
What is outsource?
This lake is the largest in South America by surface area.
What is Lake Titicaca?
This explorer was the first European explorer to see the Pacific Ocean in the Americas.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
Maya ruins are scattered throughout these countries.
What are Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador?
A church or parish established in the Americas during the Spanish colonial era to convert indigenous people.
What is a mission?