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| cordillera | group of mountain chains that run side by side |
| Andes Mountains | mountains that run through six Latin American countries |
| cash crop | farm product usually sold for export |
| llanos | hot, dry grasslands |
| campesinos | Colombian farmers who go to cities to seek work |
| Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea | Costal borders off Colombia |
| cool temperatures | Bogota's climate characterizations |
| coffee | leading cash crop of Colombia |
| Roman Catholic | religion of most people in Colombia |
| northeast Colombia | where ranchers raise herds of cattle on hte llanos |
| navigable | large enough and deep enough to allow passage of ships |
| altiplano | high plateau in southern Peru |
| Galapagos Islands | land that belongs to Ecuador |
| empire | group of lands under one ruler |
| Titicaca | highest navigable lake in the world |
| Peru Current | Current that keeps Peru's climate mild |
| mines | where Peru's copper, lead, zinc, and silver come from |
| Equator | Ecuador's name comes from the Spanish word that means what |
| 9,000 feet | altitude of Quito, the capital city of Equador |
| agriculture | Equadors most important economic activity |
| sodium nitrate | mineral used to make fertilizers and explosives |
| Tierra del Fuego | group of islands odd the southern tip of Chile |
| quinoa | a cereal grain |
| Central Valley | area of CHile with most of its people, farms, and industries |
| Atacama Desert | one of the world's driest places |
| Strait of Magellan | Separates Chile from Tierra del Fuego |
| mestizos | make up 75 percent of Chile's population |
| La Paz and Sucre | capital cities of Bolivia |
| Pacific Ocean | body of water which Chile runs about 2,650 miles along |
| gaucho | cowhand |
| Pampas | treeless plains in center of Argentina |
| tannin | substance used in making leather |
| estancia | ranch |
| Patagonia | dry windswept plain of Argentina |
| Pampas | where most of Argentina's beef, corn, and wheat comes from |
| Buenos Aires | where more than one-third of Argentina's population lives |
| 34 million | Argentina's population |
| western | what part of Argentina are the Andes Mountains |
| oil | Argentina's most valuable mineral resource |
