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| people of mixed European and African ancestry |
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| people of mixed European and American Indian ancestry |
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| edges are formed by the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental |
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| produced primarily to sell rather than for the farmer to eat |
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| growing just enough food to provide for the farmer's family with nothing left to sell |
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| led to the war between the U.S. and Mexico in 1846 |
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| caused by surrounding mountains trapping smog |
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| chain of islands that stretch south from Florida to South America |
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| foreign owned factories built in Mexico because of lower wages and pollution standards |
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| first people of Latin America |
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| migrated to North America from Asia |
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| has a long history of democratic, stable governments |
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| has had a communist government since 1959 |
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| France, U.S., Netherlands |
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| have territories in the Caribbean islands |
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| includes Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador,and Panama |
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| was known as British Honduras until it got its independence in 1981 |
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| a climate zone above the treeline |
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| a climate zone that is always covered by snow |
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| Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana |
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| isolated by rugged terrain from the rest of South America |
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| a mountain system of parallel ranges |
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| led revolt against the Spanish armies in Venezuela |
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| grassy, wide plains in central Argentina |
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| no direct access to the ocean because of being completely surrounded by land |
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| Argentine cowboys who herd cattle and horses on the grassland |
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| one of the world's major estuaries located between Argentina and Uruguay |
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| windswept islands of southern Argentina and Chine |
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| drains most of northern and central South America |
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| southernmost point of South America, located in Chile and known for stormy weather |
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| location of world's largest copper mine |
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| has two capitals: Sucre and La Paz |
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| are cut into the mountain to allow farming on mountainsides |
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| location of the source of the Amazon River |
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| plateau high in the Andes in southern Peru and Bolivia; has no outlet to the sea; location of Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopo |
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