9.1 PPT Latin America: Land Features

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9.1 PPT Latin AmericaLand Features
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Andes Mountains

• Andes reach down almost the entire length of
  South America. They stretch from Venezuela in
  the north to Argentina in the south.
• Has many active volcanoes.

• The Andes were a natural barrier to movement in
  the interior
• Result More settlement occurred along the
  eastern and northern coasts.

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Andes Mts.
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The Incas

• The Andes was home to some of the most important
  civilizations - including the Incans in Peru

Machu Picchu
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Amazon Rain Forest

• The Amazon watershed region is the largest area
  of unbroken rainforest in tropical America (and
  in the world)

The area in green is where the large Rainforest
is located
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Plains Areas
?In Colombia and Venezuela lies the largest
plains where people raise cattle in the llanos.
?The cerrado savannas are the flat plains area of
Brazil.
?In Argentina and Uruguay lies the pampas which
is another plains area for grazing cattle and
sheep.
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Rivers and Lakes

• Amazon River is the longest river in the Western
  Hemisphere, flowing 4,000 miles and empties into
  the Atlantic Ocean.
• Orinoco River flows through
• Venezuela.
• Parana River flows 3,000 miles
• through Paraguay and Argentina.
• Lake Titicaca is the highest lake
• in the world.
• Angel Falls in Venezuela highest waterfall in
  the world.

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Parana River

• The river begins in the highlands of southern
  Brazil.
• It travels 3,000 miles south and west through
  Paraguay and Argentina.
• The river ends at an estuary called the Rio de la
  Plata.
• Estuary the wide, lower part of a river where
  its current is met by the tides.

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Energy and Natural Resources
Many South American countries have the ability to
create hydroelectric power, power that comes from
water, but not all.

• A lot of silver and copper is exported from the
  area of South America.
• Venezuela has oil.

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Venezuelan Oil
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The Gaucho Human-Environment Interaction

• A gaucho culture has grown in this region.
• Gauchos are cowboys in Argentina and Uruguay.
• They wear ponchos that protect them from bad
  weather.
• Tools they use knife and the bola, a special
  kind of sling to trip the legs of animals.

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Bolivian Resources