Latin American Views

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Latin American Views

• From Mexico to Chile and Argentina

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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

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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
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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.
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Grasslands

• Pampas
• In Argentina
• Used for grazing and farming

• Llanos
• In Venezuela
• Used for grazing and farming

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Cattle on the Pampas
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Shade trees on the llanos
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A small pond on the llanos
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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

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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
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Bahamas from space
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The Beach
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Warm Blue Water
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FIN