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| Central America | Belize, Guatemala, Hondura, el Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama |
| Most heavily populated city in central America | Guatemala |
| Most Sparsely populated country in S. America | Belize |
| Belize language & culture | English - British & African influences |
| Ladinos | Gautemalans who speak spanish and practice European ways |
| Costa Rica culture | Costa Rica has one of the highest literacy rates & standards of living |
| Costa Rica capital | San Jose |
| Archipelago | a group of islands |
| Carribbean archipelago | West Indies |
| Largest Island in West Indies | Cuba |
| Most Important economic activities in West Indies | Farming and Tourism |
| Hurricane | Come from Taino people who worship a god of storms named Hurakan |
| Colonies | Overseas settlements |
| Communism | Cuba is only communist country in Western Hemisphere |
| Cooperatives | Farms owned and operated by the government |
| Cuba ruler | Fidel Castro - revolt in 1959 led by Castro - 1989 Soviet Collapse many cubans live in poverty |
| Hati Capital | Port-au-prince |
| Jamaica capital | Kingston |
| Commonwealth | a partly self-governing territor - Puerto Rico |
| Puerto Rico capital | San Juan |
| Central America - Lang & Culture | (All except Belize) - Spanish - Native American & Spanish heritage |
| Central America Lands | Central Highlands - center & Pacific lowlands & Carribbean Lowlands on either side |
| Guatemala's Capital | Guatemala - Highest populated Central American City |
| isthmus | Panama is on linking Central & South America & also separates Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean |
| Panama Canal | Panama will gain control in year 2000 |
| Greater Antilles | Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, & Puerto Rico |
| Lesser Antilles | Smaller islands in Southern Caribbean |
| West Indies cultures | Africans, Native Americans, Europeans, & Asians |
| Christopher Columbus | Hispaniola' s harbor in 1492 - Met an Native american group - Taino |
| 1st permanent European Settlement | 1498 - Dominican Republic |
| West Indies forced labor | When Native Americans died from European diseases they used Africans |
| Asian labor | Asians agreeded to work for several years in return for free travel to West Indies |
| Cuba product | A top sugar producer |
| Cuban population | 50% black & 25% mixed Black & Spanish |
| Won Haiti Election 1990 | Aristide - democratic election - 1994 returned |
| Amazon rain forest | covers northern half of South America |
| Amazon length | World's 2nd largest river - 4000 miles long |
| What Brazilian's call "selva" | Amazon basin covered with thick tropical forests |
| The leading manufacturing nation in South America | Brazil |
| World's leading producer of coffee | Brazil |
| One of the fastest growing urban areas in the world | Sao Paulo - Brazilian city & center of industry - 21 million people - southeast |
| A favorite Brazilian tourist spot | Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - 13 million people |
| yerba mate | (Brazil) A tea like drink popular throughout southern part of South America |
| South Brazil product | Beef exported all over world - (large herds of cattle on plains) |
| Largest & fastest growing population in Latin America | Brazil |
| Brazil's culture | largely Portuguese (rather than the Spanish of most South American countries) |
| Brazil's Government | Seasawed between dictatorship & democracy |
| Brazil's Capital | Brasilia - since early 1960's to encourage people to move away from coast |
| favelas | (Brazilian) city slum areas |
| Brazilian celebration | Carinval - before lent |
| Caribbean South America | Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, & French Guiana |
| Largest lake in South America | Lake Maracaibo - Venezuela |
| World leader in oil production | Venezuela |
| He freed northern part of South America from Spanish rule | (Simon) Bolivar in 1821 |
| caudillos | Harsh military rulers ( Venezuela 1800's - 1900's) |
| Venezuela Government today | Democracy |
| Venezuela's Capital | Caracas & largest city |
| Smallest independent country in South America in both area & population | Suriname |
| Today is considered part of France | French Guiana |
| Countries on Brazil's Southern bourder | Uruguay & Paraguay |
| Uruguay's ecomony | Raising sheep & cattle |
| buffer state | a small country between larger often hostile neighbors |
| Uruguay - a buffer state | Uruguay maintains good relations with both Arbentina & Brazil |
| welfare state | (Uruguay) A country that uses tax money to provide its people with help if they are sick, needy, or out of work |
| Uruguay's people | European in ancestry - Spanish & Italian settlers |
| Uruguay's Capital | Montevideo a coastal city |
| gauchos | cowhands (Uruguay - on large ranches) (have inspired folk music) ALSO on estancias (ranches) in Argentina. Is Argentina's national symbol |
| Cassava | (Paraguay) A plant with roots can be ground up & eaten or make pudding (tapioca pudding) |
| Paraguay's Capital | Asuncion & largest city |
| Andean Countries | Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Boliva, Chile, & Argentina |
| Only country in South America that borders both Caribbean Sea & Pacific Ocean | Columbia |
| cordillera | A group of mountain chains that run side by side (Andes) |
| Country in tropics but not tropical climate | (Bogota) Columbia because in high altitudes of Andes |
| Coffee is country's major cash crop | Columbia (for export) |
| Colombia Independence | 1819 Bolivar - Later broke away to form Venezuela, Ecuador & Panama |
| campesinos | Colombian farmers (since 1940 moving into cities) |
| altiplano | large plateau in Southern part of Peru's Andean region |
| Highest navigable lake in world | Lake Titicaca on the altiplano |
| empire | group of lands under one ruler (1400's Inca civilization now Peru stretches 2500 miles) |
| Boliva's Capital | Two - La Paz & Sucre both on the altiplano |
| Highest capital in the world | La Paz - Bolivia - 12,000 ft. high |
| Chili land | 1)On Pacific coast - Long & Narrow - 2650 miles long & width 100 miles wide |
| Strait of Magellan | Separates mainland Chile from group of islands known as Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) |
| Cape Horn | Southern most point of South America |
| Land of Fire | Tierra del Fuego - group of islands which Strait of Magellan separates from mainland chile (Cape Horn) |
| Chili's Capital | Santiago |
| Country that occupies most of southern part of South America | Argentina |
| Argentina's Land | 2nd largest land area of South America (after Brazil) |
| Highest mountain in Western Hemisphere | Mt. Aconcagua - 23,000 ft. - in Argentina Andes |
| pampas | In Argentina - treeless plains from Atlantic Coast to Andes (500 miles) (Farmers & ranchers & most Urban Areas) |
| Argentina's Capital | Buenos Aires & largest city where pampas meets Rio de la Plata (Bay on Atlantic) |
| estancias | Ranches (cover pampas) |
| Argentina's national symbol | gauchos |
| Who helped Argentina win independence from Spain | Jose de San Martin in 1816 |
| 1982 | Argentina suffered defeat in a war with United Kingdom for control of the Falkland Islands |
| Falkland Islands | 1982 - Argentina suffered defeat in a war with United Kingdom for control of the Falkland Islands |
