South America

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South America

• An Imperfect Prism

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Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Ve
nezuela

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana

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Tropical South America

• What makes it tropical???

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Amazon River and Basin

• River is 3,000 miles long
• Indigenous live along the river
• Practice slash and burn

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Amazon River

• Rains 2 feet a month
• Grazing and mining leading to its destruction

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Amazon Basin
"We wake in the morning to the growling howls of
monkeys. Deep and distant, their voices carry
over the rain forest canopy, through treetops
scented vanilla with orchids, past branches
clothed in bromeliads, and over water the color
of tea and creamed coffee, waters that nourish
the Peruvian Amazon."
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Amazon Basin

• Spreads across
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Brazil
• Bolivia
• Venezuela
• HUGE

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Amazon Basin

• Hark, who grows there??

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Amazon Basin

• Holds 20 earths fresh water
• 2 million insect species
• Reserves of
• Bauxite
• Nickel
• Copper
• Tin
• Timber

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The Amazon

• Trees and vegetation help regulate oxygen and
  carbon dioxide
  
• Harnessed for hydroelectric power

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Andes Mountains

• Western mountain range
• 5500 miles long!!!

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Cotapaxi Volcano (active, 20,000 feet)
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The Andes
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Bolivia

• High in the Andes
• Poor country with cultural wealth
• How so????

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Bolivia

• High in the Andes
• Poor country with cultural wealth
• How so????
• ancient civilizations still exist in many ways

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Bolivia

• 50 indigenous
• Most isolated of L.A.
• landlocked

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Bolivia

• Silver (Potosi)
• Tobacco
• Tin
• Narcotics

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Bolivia

• American visitors need to catch their breath
• Why?????

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Paraguay

• empty quarter of L.A.
• Paraguay is nowhere and famous for nothing

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Paraguay

• Industry
• Soybean
• timber

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Brazil

• Largest nation
• Portuguese-speaking
• Extremely diverse
• Products??
• soybeans
• coffee
• orange juice