Terminos Claves Flashcards

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La cordiellera de los Andes

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Andes mountain range in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia

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El rIo amazonas

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Big river in Peru

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Las incas (incaico/a)

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In Peru. Were conquered by the Spanish in 1533-1538. Indigenous group

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Machu Picchu

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Incan city in Peru

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TUpac Amaru II

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Directed the indigenous revolution in Peru 1780-1781

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MRTA

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Movimiento revolucionar tupac Amaru. 20th century. Terrorist organization in Peru. Sendero luminoso.

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Evo Morales

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Presidente de Bolivia de Origen indIgena. 2005

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Che Guevara

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Argentino. Participated in the cuban revolution, friend of Fidel Castro

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Writer/ poet. From Colombia. 20-21 century. Won Nobel prize of literature

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ROmulo Gallegos

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Venezuelan writer 20th century

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La Gran Colombia

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Republic of Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador

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Carlos RaUl Villanueva

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Venezuelan architect, work inspired by the indigenous peoples’ palafitos

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La OPEP

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OrganizaciOn de paIses exportadores de petrOleo. Venezuela and Colombia?

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Fernando botero

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Writer and painter Colombian 20-21 century. Fat people paintings

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Juanes

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Colombian singer

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Santo angel

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One of the tallest waterfalls in the world. In Venezuela

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Orinoco

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River in Venezuela and Colombia

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IguazU

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Wide waterfall in Argentina

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Juan and Eva PerOn

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Argentina president twice. Eva died of cancer very young

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El ParanA

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River in Argentina

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Las Malvinas

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Falkland Islands. Argentina’s but England thinks they are theirs also

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Christina Fernandez

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President of Argentina right now

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La Tierra de fuego

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Ring of fire? The point at the bottom of South America where there are lots of volcanos

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Olas de inmigraciOn

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Spanish and Italian went to Uruguay 1855-1879 and Argentina 1860-1930

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Pablo Neruda and Gabriel mistral

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Chilean poets

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Salvador Allende

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President of chile elected in 1973

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Agusto pinochet

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Dictadura militar en chile 1973-1990

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El atacama

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Desert in chile

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Isla de pascua

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Chilean island?

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El TLC

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Tratado de libre comercio. Free trade agreement between chile and the US in 2003

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Alfredo strossner

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Dictadura militar en Paraguay 1954-1989

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Los guaranies

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Grupo indIgena en Paraguay antes de 1535

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La ItaipU

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Represa en Paraguay

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Alejandro Toledo

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Presidente de asendencia indIgena de Peru. De una familia muy pobre. Presidente due su primer position politico 2001. Helped them out of the huge economic crisis

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Ollanta humala

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Segundo presidente de asendencia indIgena en Peru

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Caracas

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Capital of Venezuela

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BOgota

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Capital of Colombia

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Quito

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Capital if Ecuador

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Lima

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Capital if Peru. Founded by Francisco Pizarra in 1535

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Santiago

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Capital of chile

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Buenos aires

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Capital of Argentina

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La Paz

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Capital of Bolivia

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Asuncion

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Capital of Paraguay

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Montevideo

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Capital of Uruguay

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Bernardo Alberto Houssay and Cesar Milletin

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Argentina. Nobel prize of medicine.

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Rodolfo Gambini

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Uruguay. Premio de la academia de ciencias del tercer mundo en fIsica