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Latin America Flashcards

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Central America

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Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama

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Middle America

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Mexico including Baja, Central America, and Caribbean Islands

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Central America countries that don’t touch both seas/oceans

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Belize and El Salvador

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Greater Antilles

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Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico

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Lesser Antilles

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Leeward Islands and Windward Islands

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Reasons for underdevelopment

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Civil unrest, ruthless leadership, and industrial world exploitation

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Aztec domain

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Mexico City and high plateau areas

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Maya domain

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Yucatan peninsula lowlands

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Inca domain

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Andes Mountains

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Mulatto

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African + White European

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Mestizo

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Native Indian + White European

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Zambo

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African + Native Indian

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Mexican

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Mestizo + Mestizo

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Mainland / hacienda

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In interior around highlands; agriculture for local consumption, year round

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Rimland / plantation

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Humid tropical lowland areas; agriculture for export, seasonal

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Caribbean Islands

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Poverty, dense population. Less advanced. Deforestation and poor agriculture. Tourism

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Mexico City

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20% of Mexico’s population. Tenochtitlan-Aztec. Bad air pollution

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Vertical agriculture

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Tierra Helada (permanently frozen)
Puna (tree line, grazing)
Tierra Fria (potatoes, barley, wheat)
Tierra Templada (coffee, corn, tobacco, wheat)
Tierra Caliente (tropical agriculture)
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Guatemala

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Ancient Mayans. Coffee and cotton. 45% native Indian

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Belize

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Half African Mulatto. Sugar, fishing, tourism. Only touches Caribbean Sea

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Honduras

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90% mestizo. Coffee, bananas, lumber, sugar

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El Salvador

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Volcanoes. Deforestation, substinence. Only touches Pacific Ocean

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Nicaragua

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Civil war ended in 1990; still has problems

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Costa Rica

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No standing army. Tourism. San Jose is westernized. High standard of living. Coffee, bananas, beef, sugar

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Panama

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Panama Canal, isthmus. US removed drug puppet Noriega. Bananas, sugar, rice, coffee, shrimp, fishmeal

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Physiography of South America

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Andes Mountains, Amazon Basin, Plateau Region

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Andes Mountains

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Tallest is Mt. Aconcagua at 23,000ft. Active volcanoes and altiplanos

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Plateau Region of South America

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Periphery, particularly Atlantic Ocean side

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South America population

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Mainly around periphery. High literacy rate 90%

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South America languages

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Spanish and Portuguese

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Inca Indian Civilization

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Altiplanos. Last stand was Machu Picchu

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How many countries in South America?

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13; two are landlocked

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Venezuela ❤️

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Home to llanos (savanna environment with oil), Angel Falls, and ABC Islands

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Guiana’s ❤️

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Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana

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Colombia ❤️

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Llanos, Andes. Good land, drug gangs and dissident guerrillas. Coffee, oil, coal, process cocaine

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Peru ❤️

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Fishing is big. Cotton, sugar. Humboldt current and El Niño. Desert coast, Andes highlands, eastern rainforest

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Ecuador ❤️

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Galápagos Islands. Bananas**, coffee, cocoa, oil, cocaine. Fishing.

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Bolivia ❤️

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Landlocked. Lake Titicaca and La Paz. Potatoes, silver, tin ore, cocaine

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Paraguay ❤️

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Landlocked. 95% mestizo. Poor population.

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Argentina ❤️

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Pampas. Breadbasket. Railroads. Exports cereal grains, animal feed, vegetable oil, meat and wool. Gran Chaco. Falkland Islands.

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Patagonia ❤️

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In Argentina. An area of low hills and plateaus with desert climate

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Tierra del Fuego

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Island on south tip of S. America. Half Argentina half Chile.

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Uruguay ❤️

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Sheep, wool, cattle, hides. European culture

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Chile ❤️

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Elongated state. North-Atacama Desert. Middle-90% of population. South-hostile environment

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Brazil ❤️

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Bulk of population on coast. Portuguese, catholic. No Andes mountains. San Paulo, Itaipu Dam, Manaus

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