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Title: Latin American Views


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Latin American Views
  • From Mexico to Chile and Argentina

2
Mountain Ranges
  • Andes
  • 2nd highest range in the world.
  • Run from Chile to Panama
  • Sierra Madres
  • In Mexico
  • 3 different areas
  • ORIENTAL
  • OCCIDENTAL
  • DEL SUR

3
ANDES
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Peaks in the ANDES
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Looking up
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Inca city of Machu Pichu
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Sierra Madres
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Sierra rocky cliffs
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Green slopes
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Looking across the range
11
Amazon River Basin
  • Over 1000 tributaries feed the Amazon River.
  • Drains an area almost the size of the USA.
  • Amazon 2nd largest river in world.
  • Drains 60 times more water then the Nile.

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Amazon River Basin(dark green)
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Amazon flowing through the rainforest.
14
Grasslands
  • Pampas
  • In Argentina
  • Used for grazing and farming
  • Llanos
  • In Venezuela
  • Used for grazing and farming

15
Cattle on the Pampas
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Shade trees on the llanos
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A small pond on the llanos
18
Rainforests
  • Rainforests cover much of Latin America.
  • Rain forests are near the equator.
  • Amazon rainforest covers almost 2 million acres.

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Water fall in the forest
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Deserts
  • Atacama Desert
  • Driest desert in the World.
  • Sheltered from the rainforest by the Andes

22
Atacama
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Archipelagoes(groups of islands)
  • Bahamas
  • Hundreds of islands of the tip of Florida and to
    the North of Cuba
  • Greater Antilles
  • Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola
  • Lesser Antilles
  • Smaller islands to the South of Puerto Rico

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Bahamas
25
Bahamas from space
26
The Beach
27
Warm Blue Water
28
FIN
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