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Adventure travel - SOUTH AMERICA
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America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western
Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by
the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America
and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.
South America was named in 1507 by cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and
Matthias Ringmann after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest
that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a New World unknown to
Europeans.
South America has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890,000 sq mi), or
almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. As of 2005, its population was estimated at
more than 371,000,000. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa,
and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and
North America).
SOUTH AMERICA countries
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Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
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Colombia
Ecuador
Islas Malvinas
French Guiana
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Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
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Machu Picchu Peru
The Machupicchu archaeological complex is located in the department
of Cusco, in the Urubamba province and district of Machupicchu. It
is perched on the eastern slopes of the Vilcanota mountain range, a
chain of mountains curtailed by the Apurimac and Urubamba Rivers. At
latitude 13º7' South and longitude 72035' West of the Greenwich
Meridian, Machupicchu is located at a height of 2,350 meters above
sea level (main square)........
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