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| An amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminum. |
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| A small neutral country, situated between two larger hostile countries, serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict. |
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| A beanlike seed from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made. |
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| The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. |
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| A member of an indigenous people of Colombia whose well-developed political structure was destroyed by Europeans. |
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| An independent country or community, esp. a democratic republic. |
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| A sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. |
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| A person of mixed European and black descent, esp. in the Caribbean. |
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| Tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, esp. to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife. |
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| An irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December. |
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| A Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum. |
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| A lowland plain in central South America, that extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to northern Argentina. |
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| A South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches. |
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| Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. |
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| A cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific, which occurs at irregular intervals and is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns complementary to those of El Niño, but less extensive and damaging in their effects. |
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| (esp. of a country) Almost or entirely surrounded by land; having no coastline or seaport. |
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| A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves. |
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| (in South America) A treeless grassy plain. |
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| A tree or shrub that grows in chiefly tropical coastal swamps that are flooded at high tide. Mangroves typically have numerous tangled roots above ground and form dense thickets. |
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| cassava: a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics. |
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| A trade alliance between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with Chile and Bolivia as associate members. |
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| A person of mixed white and black ancestry, esp. a person with one white and one black parent. |
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| Extensive, treeless plains in South America. |
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| A high, treeless plateau in tropical South America. |
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| A pantheistic Afro-Cuban religious cult developed from the beliefs and customs of the Yoruba people and incorporating some elements of the Catholic religion. |
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| A deposit of sand impregnated with bitumen. |
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| A tepui (or tepuy) is a table-top mountain (mesa) found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon. |
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| Tierra caliente (Spanish for hot land) is a pseudo-climatalogical term used in Latin America to refer to those places within that realm which have a distinctly tropical climate. |
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| Tierra fria (Spanish for cold land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to mountain locations within that cultural realm, where high elevation results in a markedly cooler climate than that encountered in the lowlands at a comparable latitude. |
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| Tierra helada (Spanish for frozen land) is a term used in Latin America to refer to the highest places found within the Andes mountains. |
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| Tierra templada (Spanish for temperate land) is a pseudoclimatological term used in Latin America to refer to places within that realm which are either located in the tropics at a moderately high elevation, or are marginally outside the astronomical tropics, producing a somewhat cooler overall climate than that found in the tropical lowlands, the zone of which is known as the tierra caliente. |
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| The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing. |
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| A black religious cult practiced in the Caribbean and the southern US, combining elements of Roman Catholic ritual with traditional African magical and religious rites, and characterized by sorcery and spirit possession. |
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