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Reminders!

• HW 1 due Tuesday
• Maps DUE WED

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Latin America
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Warm-up

• Make as many examples of landforms as you can!

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rainforest
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desert
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What is Latin America?

• Reaches from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn.
• Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands
  and South America

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Climate and Ecosystems

• More than 1/2 the continent lies between the
  tropics - therefore the sun is directly overhead
  for much of the year. This makes it HOT almost
  everywhere except in the mountains
• Mountains create their own climates-elevation and
  distance from the equator.

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Landforms

• Andes Mountains 4,400 miles long with average
  height of 13,000 ft.
• Aconcagua highest peak 22,841 ft.
• Amazon River largest river in the world by
  volume 16 of all river water
• Creates 1/5 of total fresh water empting into
  oceans
• Amazon rainforest 1/3 of all species in the
  world live here

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Population

• The first people probably came from Asia,
  crossing the Bering Strait thousands of years
  ago.

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Three Important Early Civilizations

• The Mayas - Yucatan Peninsula Guatemalan
  lowlands
• Aztecs in central Mexico
• Incas in the Andes Mountains (present day Peru)

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Recent Influences

• For more than 300 years most countries of L.A.
  were colonies of Spain and Portugal (French,
  English, Dutch,)
• The term Latin refers to the Spanish and
  Portuguese languages
• It also refers to the cultural heritage that
  Spain and Portugal established in America

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Latin America is carved up

• Portugal took over Brazil
• The Spanish conquered Central America and the
  western coast of South America
• The French, England and the Netherlands claimed
  islands in the Caribbean.

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Latin and then some

• The cultural heritage of Africa is also a part of
• Latin culture.

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Country Population White Mestizo Mulatto Amerindian Black White andMestizo Mixed Other
Argentina 40,301,927 97 3
Aruba 100,018 80 20
Bolivia 9,119,152 15 30 55
Brazil 190,010,647 53.7 38.5 6.2 1.6
Chile 16,284,741 3 95 2
Colombia 44,379,598 20 58 14 1 4 3
Costa Rica 4,133,884 1 3 94 2
Cuba 11,394,043 37 51 11 1
Dominican Republic 9,365,818 16 11 73
Ecuador 13,755,680 65 25 3 7
El Salvador 6,948,073 9 90 1
Guatemala 12,728,111 40.5 59.4 0.1
Haiti 8,706,497 95 5
Honduras 7,483,763 1 90 7 2
Mexico 108,700,891 9 60 30 1
Nicaragua 5,675,356 17 69 5 9
Panama 3,242,173 10 70 6 14
Paraguay 6,669,086 95 5
Peru 28,674,757 15 37 45 3
Puerto Rico 3,944,259 80.5 0.4 8 4.1 7
U.S. Virgin Islands 108,448 13.1 76.2 3.5 7.2
Uruguay 3,460,607 88 8 4
Venezuela 26,023,528 41 49 1 7 2
Total 561,211,057 33.9 27 1 5.2 10.9 4.9 4.8 1.7 1.6
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Land and People

• More than 23 nations with many diverse landforms,
  environments and peoples.
• Some land rich in resources - others have very
  few.
• Therefore - some places are densely populated and
  others are empty of human life.