South America: Land

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South America Land Water

• Think quick Where is the highest airport in the
  world?
• Answer its El Alto airport, located in La Paz,
  Bolivia - more than 13,000 feet up in the Andes
  Mountains.
• Bolivia is a landlocked country in South America,
  a continent that is part of a region called Latin
  America

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Why Latin America?

• About 500 years ago, Europeans, like Christopher
  Columbus, sailed to the Americas. Most of the
  people who settled in what is now called Latin
  America came from Spain and Portugal.
• The languages from these countries have their
  roots in the ancient European language of Latin.

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The Andes

• The Andes Mountains are perhaps South Americas
  most impressive physical feature. It runs about
  5,500 miles along the continents western coast.
  Except for the Himalayan Mountains in Asia, the
  Andes are the highest mountains in the world -
  with some rising more than 20,000 feet.

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More Landforms

• Another remarkable physical feature of South
  America is the pampas, a large region of flat
  grasslands that stretches through Argentina and
  Uruguay.
• The pampas are similar to the Great Plains of the
  United States.

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The Amazon Basin Rain Forest

• The Amazon River Basin contains the largest
  tropical rain forest in the world.
• A rain forest is a dense evergreen forest that
  has abundant rainfall throughout the year.
• This rain forest covers more than a third of all
  South America.

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The Worlds 2nd Longest River

• As the second longest of the worlds rivers, the
  Amazon flows 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil to
  the Atlantic Ocean. It carries about 20 of all
  fresh water on Earth.
• The Amazon receives water from more than 1,000
  tributaries that spill into it. Tributaries are
  rivers and streams that flow into a larger river.

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• www.panda.org
• en.m.wikipedia.org