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Latin America Geography
CSCC Exam 4- Latin America
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Geography
Undergraduate 2
06/08/2008

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Megacities
Definition
Cities with over 10 million people and high growth and population densities.
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Llanos
Definition
s a vast tropical grassland plain situated at the east of the Andes in northwestern South America (Colombia and Venezuela). Its main river is the Orinoco
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Orinoco River
Definition
s one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km, (1,330 miles). Its drainage basin, covers 880,000 kmĀ², 76.3% in Venezuela with the rest in Colombia.
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Altiplano
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where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. It is an area of inland drainage lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Its height averages about 3,300 meters (11,000 feet), somewhat less than that of Tibet
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Environmental Lapse Rate
Definition
is the negative of the actual change of temperature with altitude of the stationary atmosphere at a specific time and specific location.
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Colombian Exchange
Definition
has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after 1492.
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Shining Path
Definition
Communist Party in Peru. A Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru
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favelas
Definition
the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty town
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Mestizo
Definition
a Spanish term that was formerly used in the Spanish Empire and continues to be used today in Latin America and the Philippines to refer to people of mixed European (Spaniard) and Amerindian ancestry living in the region of Latin America.[
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Mullato
Definition
Mixed race person
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zambo
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is a Spanish term (the Portuguese language term is Cafuso) that was used in the Spanish Empire and continues to be used today to identify individuals in Hispanic America who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. The word originated from the Romance and Latin language.
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treaty of tordesillas
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Signed June 7, 1494, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe into an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian
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Maquiladora
Definition
a factory that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product, usually back to the originating country.
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Atacama Dessert
Definition
Driest dessert in the world located on the Chilean coast.
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Pampas
Definition
High agricultural area of the southern tip of south america mostly Argentina and Uruguay.
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Buenos Aries
Definition
Argentina capital. Primate city.
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Georgetown
Definition
Guyana Capital
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Caracas
Definition
Venezuela capital
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Mexico City
Definition
Megalopolis, Mexican Capital
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Guatemala City
Definition
Guatemala capital
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San Salvador
Definition
El Salvador capital
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Belmopan
Definition
Belize Capital
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Tegucigalpa
Definition
Honduras capital
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managua
Definition
Nicaragua capital
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San Jose
Definition
Costa Rica Capital
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Panama City
Definition
Panama Capital
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Bogata
Definition
Columbian Capital
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Quito
Definition
Ecuador Capital
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Lima
Definition
Peru Capital
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La paz
Definition
Bolivia capital
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Santiago
Definition
Chile capital
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Montevideo
Definition
Uruguay capital
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Tierra Del Fuego
Definition
Islands at the southern tip of south america
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Falklands
Definition
Also known as Islas Malvinas, islands off the east coast of the southern tip of south america
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Upper Huallaga Valley
Definition
Coca cultivation area in peru
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Chapare
Definition
Bolivian coca cultivating area
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Caqueta and Medillin
Definition
Coca cultivating regions in columbia. Also home to cartels
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Mato grosso
Definition
Plateau in western Brazil
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Tierra caliente
Definition
Hot country, Produces sugar cane, tropical fruits, lowland tubers, maize, rice, poultry, pigs, zebu cattle
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FARC
Definition
Revolutionary armed forces, rebel group in columbia.
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Tierra templada
Definition
coffee maize warm weather vegetables, cut flowers, short hourn cattle
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Tierra fria
Definition
Cold country, wheat barley, maize, cool weather vegetables, apples, pears, dairying, short horn cattle
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Tierra Helada
Definition
Highland grains, tubers, sheep, llama, alpaca
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