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| culture | customary beliefs, values, behavior patterns, social practices |
| mestizo | a person of mixed European and native ancestry |
| Aztecs | native group that lived around modern Mexico City |
| llanos | grassland located in Colombia and Venezuela |
| Mayas | native group that built large cities with pyramids in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala |
| pampas | temperate grassland located in Argentina |
| Amazon | the largest river in the world |
| Amazon Rain foest | largest in the world; runs through Brazi |
| Andes | mountains that run from Colombia to Argentina |
| Sierra Madre | mountain range in Mexico |
| Atacama | the driest desert in the world |
| Incas | native group that lived in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile |
| hacienda | large farm or ranch similar to a plantation owned by a rich landlord |
| gaucho | a cowboy in Argentina |
| archipelago | large group or chain of islands |
| indigenous | having originated in or occurring naturally in an environment |
| Hispanic | of Spanish origin or descent; Spanish-speaking |
| Iberian Peninsula | the region in Europe that includes Spain and Portugal |
| stereotype | term used to negatively categorize a group or groups of people based on observations of a few people in the group according to behavior or appearance |
| Latin America | that region of the world that begins in Mexico, extends around the tip of South America and includes the islands in the Caribbean |
