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| Cities with over 10 million people and high growth and population densities. |
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| s a vast tropical grassland plain situated at the east of the Andes in northwestern South America (Colombia and Venezuela). Its main river is the Orinoco |
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| s one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, (1,330 miles). Its drainage basin, covers 880,000 km², 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia. |
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| where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. It is an area of inland drainage lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Its height averages about 3,300 meters (11,000 feet), somewhat less than that of Tibet |
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| is the negative of the actual change of temperature with altitude of the stationary atmosphere at a specific time and specific location. |
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| has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492. |
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| Communist Party in Peru. A Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru |
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| the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty town |
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| a Spanish term that was formerly used in the Spanish Empire and continues to be used today in Latin America and the Philippines to refer to people of mixed European (Spaniard) and Amerindian ancestry living in the region of Latin America.[ |
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| is a Spanish term (the Portuguese language term is Cafuso) that was used in the Spanish Empire and continues to be used today to identify individuals in Hispanic America who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. The word originated from the Romance and Latin language. |
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| Signed June 7, 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe into an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian |
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| a factory that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product, usually back to the originating country. |
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| Driest dessert in the world located on the Chilean coast. |
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| High agricultural area of the southern tip of south america mostly Argentina and Uruguay. |
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| Argentina capital. Primate city. |
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| Megalopolis, Mexican Capital |
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| Islands at the southern tip of south america |
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| Also known as Islas Malvinas, islands off the east coast of the southern tip of south america |
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| Coca cultivation area in peru |
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| Bolivian coca cultivating area |
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| Coca cultivating regions in columbia. Also home to cartels |
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| Plateau in western Brazil |
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| Hot country, Produces sugar cane, tropical fruits, lowland tubers, maize, rice, poultry, pigs, zebu cattle |
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| Revolutionary armed forces, rebel group in columbia. |
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| coffee maize warm weather vegetables, cut flowers, short hourn cattle |
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| Cold country, wheat barley, maize, cool weather vegetables, apples, pears, dairying, short horn cattle |
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| Highland grains, tubers, sheep, llama, alpaca |
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