LANDLOCKED (surrounded by land – no access to the sea)

COUNTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA

BOLIVIA

AND

PARAGUAY

TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

URUGUAY IS LOCATED COMPLETELY BELOW THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN.

The Source of the

A

M

A

Z

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N

River

AMAZON RIVER

ANDES Mtns.

A place where a river begins.

The mouth

(end) of the

AmazonRiver

The Amazon

DeltaNotice the triangular shape.

LOCATED IN BRAZIL

23 ½ N

23 ½ S

TROPICAL

THIS IS THE CLIMATE AREA FOR MOST OF LATIN AMERICA

BOLIVIA borders

1

2

3

4

5 Countries

THE MAORITY OF ISLANDS OF LATIN AMERICA CAN BE FOUND IN THE ……………

THE EQUATOR PASSES THROUGH …

ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, AND BRAZIL

BLAST FROM THE PAST!

AN ISTHMUS IS A SMALLER PIECE OF LAND THAT

CONNECTS TWO LARGER LAND MASSES.

THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

IT APPEARS THAT THE SOURCE OF THE RIO GRANDE IS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

IT FLOWS SOUTHEAST OUT INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO.

BRASILIA - CAPITAL OF BRAZIL

JAMAICAJAMAICA

CUBA IS REALLY CLOSE TO THE UNITED STATES!!!! Approximately 90 miles.

Antofagasta, Chile

This is the area with the clearest skies in the world, where only 20 days out of the year there is a cloud in the sky. There is a thirty foot high hand called…..

The Hand of the Desert!

ATACAMA

DESERT

Lake Maracaibo

Kinkajou

EASTERN-MOST

COUNTRY

WESTERN- MOST

COUNTRY

Pampas is a word Pampas is a word of Quechua origin of Quechua origin that means "a that means "a plain without plain without trees".trees".

PAMPAS REGION

MEXICO CITY WITH A POPULATION OF OVER 20 MILLION (megacity!) PEOPLE HAS AN AIR POLLUTION PROBLEM AIDED BY TWO MOUNTAIN RANGES.

http://www.ersdac.or.jp/ASTERimage3/Image/NorthAmerica/MXL_Mexico_city.jpg

Hmmm…

It Appears that most of South America is located EAST of Florida.

Duhhhh I’m a

GALAPAGOS

TURTLE….

YOU CAN FIND ME AROUND

O.5oN 91o W

WHEN THE AMAZON RIVER FLOODS THE BASIN EXPANDS TREMENDOUSLY