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| an amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminum. It consists largely of hydrated alumina with variable proportions of iron oxides. |
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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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| beanlike seeds from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made. |
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| an organization established in 1973 to promote cooperation in economic affairs and social services and to coordinate foreign policy among its members, all of which are independent states of the Caribbean region. |
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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: he was overthrown in an army coup. |
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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 member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest. |
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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 that 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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| 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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| 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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| tropical plant with starchy roots |
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| a customs union between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which came into effect in January 1995. Bolivia and Chile joined as associate members in 1996. |
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| a small farm or property in Latin America, especially one that is too small to support a single family. |
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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 chain of high plateaus in the Guiana Highlands |
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| sea level to 3,000 feet above the surface |
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| 6,000 to 1,000 feet above the surface |
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| over 16,000 feet above the surface |
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| 3,000, to 6,000 feet above the surfacd |
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| divides the Paramo and the Tierra fria elevations in the Andes Mountains |
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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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