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| Altipano | A high plateau as in th Andean regions of Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina |
| Biome | A major type of ecological community defined by its climate and vegitation |
| Coup | A success move usually refering to successfully overthrowing the current goverment |
| Deforesstation | Act of clearing an area of trees |
| Export | Product that is sent or sold to other countries |
| Gaucho | A cow boy of the South American Pampas |
| Guerrilla | A member of a small group of soldiers who harass their enemy with suprise attacks |
| Llanos | A large area of grasslands and flooded plains located in Colombia an Venezuela |
| Mestizo | A person of mixed Euroopean (usually Spanish) and Native American anestry |
| Pampas | Large area of grassy plains covering most of north centrial Argentina |
| Patagonia | Mostly rugged barren area of land from the Rio Negro to the Strait of Magellan |
| Rainforest | A dense, broad-leaf largely evergreen forest occurring mostly in tropical regions of the world that receives large amounts of rain (100 inches or more) |
| Tierra Del Fuego | An archipelago at the southern tip of South America owned by Chile and Argentina |
