South America

Southern Cone

Term for the southernmost region of South America

Chile's government between 1925-1973

Democratic republic

What happened in 1970 in Chile

Salvador Allende was elected

What happened in 1973 in Chile

Allende overthrown in a coup led by Augusto Pinochet

Operation Condor

Crush leftist movements and political opposition

Information Sharing

Dictatorships shared intel on dissidents

Assassinations

Activists, journalists, and anyone seen as a threat

"Dirty War" Tactics

Disappearances, torture, & intimidation

Argentina's dictator

Jorge Rafael Videla

Paraguay's dictator

Alfredo Stroessner

How did Stroessner serve as president until 1989

Operation Condor, fraud, and repression

Uruguay's dictator

Juan Maria Bordaberry

When did elections return in Uruguay

1984

Bolivia's dictor

Hugo Banzo

Banzar's dictatorship is known as what?

Banzerato

Who was Bolivia's previous president

Juan Jose Torres

What happened to Torres

Murdered

Amazon River Status

Longest river in the world

Amazon river starts where?

Andes Mountains of Peru

Where does the Amazon River empty

Atlantic Ocean

Andes Mountains Status

Longest mountain range

Ande's highest peak

Aconcagua

Angel Falls status

world's tallest waterfall in the world

Angel Falls location

Canaima National Park, Venezuela

It plunges from the top of what mountain?

Auyan-tepui

Who is Angel falls named after/

American avaiator Jimmie Angel

Atacama Desert's location

northern chile

Atacama Desert holds what resources

Mineral deposits

Avenue of the Volcanoes

stretch of volcanic peaks

Avenue of the Volcanoes location

Andes Mountains of Ecuador

Volcanoes in the Avenue of the Volcanoes

Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, and Tungurahua

Chicamocha Canyon location

Colombia

Chicamocha Canyono's river

Chicamocha River

Iguazu Falls location

Border between Argentina and Brazil

HOw many individual waterfalls does Iguazu Falls have

275

Iguazu's most famous fall

Devil's Throat

Kaieteur Falls location

Guyana's Kaieteur National Park in the Guiana Highlands

Kaieteur Falls status

Most powerful waterfalls in the world

Lake Titicaca status

world's highest naviagle lake

Lake Titicaca is home to what famous floating island indigenous people

Uros people

Lake Titicaca's location

In the Andes mountain between Peru and Bolivia

Mount Roraima's status

tabletop mountan or tepui

Mount Roraima's location

Guiana Highlands between Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana

Orinoco River's location

Venezuela and Colombia

Where doe sthe Orinoco River sart?

Venezuelan highlands

Where does the Orinoco River empty?

Atlantic Ocean

Perito Moreno Glacier's location

Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina

Salar de Uyuni status

World's largest salt flat

Salar de Uyuni location

Southwest Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni large reserve for what

Lithium

Tatacoa Desesrt location

Huila Department of Colombia

The Pantanal status

World's largest tropical wetland area

Pantanal location

Mostly in brazil but also in Bolivia and Paraguay

Villarrica Volcano status

Active stratovolcano

Villarrica Volcano's location

Chile's Araucania Region

South America by area

4th

South America by population

5th

How many countries in south america

12

How many territories in south america

3

How many people in south america

433 million people

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Argentina's population

47 million

Arentina's geographic features

Falkland Islands, Patagonia, Iguazu Falls, Tierra del Fuego

Bolivia

La Paz

Bolivia population

12 million

Bolivia's geographic features

Salar de Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, The Altiplano

Brazil

Brasilia

Brazil's population

213 million

Brazil's economy

agricultural goods, minerals, and manufactured goods

Brazil's geographic features

Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, The Pantanal

Chile

Santiago

Chile's population

19

Chile's geographic features

Atacama Desert, Easter Island, Villarrica Volcano

Colombia

Bogota

Colombia's population

50 million

Andes mountains splits colombia into how many regions

3

Colombia's geographic features

Tatacoa Desert, Chicamocha Canyon, Colombian Coffee Plantation

Ecuador

Quito

Ecuador's population

17 million

Ecuador's geographic features

Galapagos Islands, Avenue of the Volcanoes

Guyana

Georgetown

Guyana's geographic features

Mount Roraima, Kaieteur Falls

Paraguay

Asuncion

Paraguay's population

7 million

Paraguay's economy

hydroelectric power, soybeans, and cattle

Paraguay's geographic features

Itaipu Dam, Gran Chaco

Peru

Lima

Peru's population

33 million

Peru's economy

agriculture and mining

Peru's geographic features

Machu Picchu, Nazca Lines

Suriname

Paramaribo

Suriname's population

618,000

Suriname's status

Smallest country in South America

Suriname landscape

Covered with tropical rainforests and manrgove swamps

Suriname geographic features:

Blue Poison Dart Frog

Uruguay

Montevideo

Uruguay population

3.5 million

Uruguay's status

2nd smallest nation in South America

Uruguay's landscape

Mostly grassland savannas

Uruguay's geographic features

The Pampas