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| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European ancestry |
| bauxite | a mineral used in making aluminum |
| llano | a grassy plain |
| cordillera | a related set of separate mountain ranges |
| campesino | in Latin America, a tenant farmer or farm worker |
| altiplano | a plateau region located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru |
| páramo | a plateau in the Andes in Ecuador |
| timber line | the boundary in high elevations above which continuous forest vegation cannot grow |
| selva | a forested region in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
| estuary | the wide mouth of a river, where freshwater river currents meet salt water |
| piedmont | a region of rollig foothills |
| pampas | a grasslands region in Argentina and Uruguay |
| gaucho | a cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay |
