South America

South America

​Land of dance and music

south American countries

• Argentina and Venezuela

• Bolivia and Brazil

• Chile and Colombia

• Ecuador and Guyana

• Paraguay and Peru

• Suriname and Uruguay

South America

• Broken up into three regions. (Mountains and Highlands, River Basins and Costal Plains).

• Longest mountain chain (Andes) stretches for 5,500 miles.

• 440 million people.

• 12 total countries.

Chile/ Argentina is where you can dig a hole to China.

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Has the worlds largest rodent (Capybara) 4 feet/ 140 pounds.

Fun Facts

-Was discovered and named by a conquistador named Fransisco Orellana after being attacked by the Icamiabus wemon.

-It is massive (Larger than Mexico)

-30% of all species on Earth

Amazon Rainforest

South America

• Guitar shaped forest in honor of a dead wife.

• Pablo Escobar (Spent $2500 per month on rubber bands for his money). 1 billion per year eaten by rats.

Brazil

• 5th Largest county in the world.

• Half of south America.

• They used Pincer ants to close wounds.

• A man tied 1000 balloons to a chair and tried to fly. (They found him two weeks later....

• Speak Portuguese

  
  

Nazca Lines Peru

• Nazca Lines (Geoglyphs in the Peru desert).

• Made in 500BC by the Nazca people

• trapezoids, straight lines, rectangles, triangles, and swirls

Peru

• 800 straight lines (Some run for 30 miles) 300 geometric figures and 70 animal and plant designs Which can get as big as the empire State building.

• Aliens? Rituals?

• 20 minutes of rain per year.

Peru facts

• On new years Eve you can get yellow underwear! (Good Luck)

• Oldest University in America. 1551

• Most of the worlds Alpacas. (Eat dolphins)

• Potato's came from here

Peru

• Star wars is very popular. (1500 people named after star wars characters.

• Festival where 100 cats are eaten in honor of the first settlers. (Banned now).

Machu Picchu

• Seven wonders of the world

• From the Incan Empire

• Ancient Observatory (Space)

• Stones cut to fit in with each other (Puzzles) no concreate or motar.

• Acted as a clock. (the sun)

How it was built

• No wheels. They were against pack animals.

• Large stones 100's to 1000's of pounds. Pushed up the mountain by 100s of men. 8,000 feet up.

• Built to withstand earthquakes.

• Some rocks weighed 50 tons. (Cut perfectly).

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Columbia

• Named after Christopher Columbus

• ColOmbia not Columbia

• Pink dolphins (Rivers).

• Everyone drinks coffee. Especially kids.

• Most butterfly species in the world.

Argentina

• During riots in 2001 (5 presidents in 10 days).

• The Tango!

• Howler monkeys (Loudest land mammal)

• Birthday ear pulling.

Chili Easter Island

• 887 human like monoliths called Moai.

• Bodies under the ground

• Heads are 13 feet tall.

• Thought to represent family lines.

• Man fined $17,000 for stealing part of an ear. (jail for 7 years).

Chili

• Worlds longest country.

• Largest permeant settlement on Antarctica.

• Worlds driest desert. Never rained.

• 1300 active volcanoes.

• They have penguins.