| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Lima | Peru's capital |
| Cuzco | Most famous city in Peru |
| Indians | more of these live in Peru than in any country in the world |
| Machu Picchu | "lost city" believed to have been by the Incas to honor their sun god |
| Quito | Ecuador's capital and the oldest of all South American capitals |
| Bolivia | land-locked country which is about the size of California and Texas |
| Sucre & La Paz | official capital of Bolivia; place where most of the government buildings are located |
| La Paz | World's highest capital city |
| Lake Titicaca | highest navigable lake in the world |
| Columbian coffee | considered the finest in the world |
| Bogota | capital of Columbia |
| Lake Maracailo | South America's largest lake |
| Angel Falls | world's highest waterfall |
| Cumana | oldest permanent European settlement in S.America, located in northeastern Venezula |
| Caracas | capital and largest city in Venezuela |
| "land of waters" | term used for countries of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana |
| Brazil | largest country in South America |
| Amazon River | surrounded by rain forests |
| Pedro I | ruler of Brazil that declared Brazil to be independent |
| Pedro II | proved to be a wise ruler and helped Brazil develop into a strong country |
| coffee | Brazil's largest producer in the world |
| fazendas | coffe comes from coffee trees and is grown on these plantations |
| Itaipu Dam | one of the most powerful hydroelectric plants in the world located on the Parana River |
| Sao Paulo | largest city in S. America and the industrial center of Latin America |
| Brasilia | capital of Brazil today |
| Rio de Janeiro | capital before the Brazilian government moved it |
| Argentina | second largest country in S. America |
| Pampas | an area of fertile grassland that extends across central Argentina |
| "Granary of the South" | Argentina is known as |
| estancias | ranches in Argentina |
| gauchos | S. American cowboys who watch the huge herds of cattle |
| beef | Argentina is one of the world's largest producers |
| copper | Chile is the world's biggest producer of this |
| Santiago | Capital of Chile |
| Asuncion | Capital of Paraguay |
| Montevideo | Capital of Uruguay |
| Tourism | Biggest industry of Argentina |
| Christ of the Andes | Famous monument visited by tourists of Argentina |
| Falkland Islands | Belong to Great Britain but Argentina invaded in 1982; called Islas Maldives by the Argentines |
| City of Roses | Nickname of Montevideo |
| Quechua | Language still spoken by many Peruvians |
| fazendas | coffee plantations |
| gauchos | cowboys in Argentina |
| totora reed boats | unsinkable boats made from reeds tied together with twine |
| Machu Picchu, Peru | well-preserved mountain city that was hidden from outsiders |
| Guayaquil | Ecuador's largest city, the country's chief port and center of trade |
| Cumana, Venezuela | the oldest European settlement in South America |
| Rio de Janeiro | Beautiful large city and cultural center of Brazil, with one of South America's chief seaports |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | Largest city in South America and fourth largest city in the world |
| Manaus, Brazil | Center of trade and commerce for Amazon river basin |
| Valparaiso | important seaport and center of industry in Chile |
| Pedro I | Declared Brazil to be independent |
| Pedro II | wise ruler who helped strengthen Brazil as a nation through improved economy, transportation, communication and education |
| Princess Isabel | Daughter of Pedro II, declared all slaves of Brazil to be free |
| Margaret Thatcher | British Prime Minister when Argentines attacked British-ruled Falkland Islands |
| Charles Darwin | Saw indians of Tierra del Fuego and thought they were what he believed was a missing link between man and ape |
| Captain Allen Gardiner | British naval officer who came to Tierra del Fuego to tell them about Christ, but died from starvation |
| Atacama Desert | one of driest regions on earth |
| Devil's Island | famous prison is here |
| Uruguay River | waters the southern plateaus |
| Paraguay River | waters the southern plateaus |
| Itaipu Dam | one of the most powerful hydroelectric plants in the world |
| Guanabara Bay | in Rio De Janeiro, one of the seven natural wonders of the world |
| Patagonia | southern part of Argentina, called Land of the Big Feet |
| Rio de la Plata | river that flows thru Buenos Aires |
| Sugar Loaf Mountain | Rocky formation that rises out of Rio de Janeiro's harbor |
| Tierra del Fuego | group of islands off the southern tip of South America |
| Ona and Yahgan Indians | lived on Tiera del Fuego, primitive indians that Charles Darwin thought were the missing link between man and ape |
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