Latin America Vocabulary

...a factory in Mexico run by a foreign company and exporting its products to the country of that company.

• Maquiladoras
• Ecotourism
• Llanos
• Pampas

...the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

• Ecotourism
• Deforestation
• Biodiversity
• Pampas

...the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.

• Ecotourism
• Deforestation
• Llanos
• Pampas

...a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the flooded grasslands and savannas biome.

• Llanos
• Pampas
• Maquiladoras
• Biodiversity

...extensive, treeless plains in South America.

• Llanos
• Cerrado
• Mestizo
• Pampas

...a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.

• Mestizo
• Mulatto
• Mesa
• Favela

...a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.

• Mestizo
• Favela
• Cerrado
• Mulatto

...a person of mixed European and black descent.

• Cerrado
• Mestizo
• Creole
• Mulatto

...a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum.

• Favela
• North Atlantic Drift
• Mestizo
• Cerrado

an interchange of plants, animals, disease, people, and culture between the Western and Eastern hemispheres following the voyages of Columbus

• renewable resource

• Columbian Exchange

• demography

• deforestation