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    South America Political Map with Countries Labeled



    South America Political Map

    South America, fourth biggest of the world's landmasses. It is the southern part of the landmass by and large alluded to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, or essentially the Americas. The mainland is minimal and generally three-sided in shape, being expansive in the north and tightening to a point-Cape Horn, Chile-in the south.

    South America Political Map
    South America is limited by the Caribbean Sea toward the northwest and north, the Atlantic Ocean toward the upper east, east, and southeast,
    and the Pacific Ocean toward the west. In the northwest it is joined to North America by the Isthmus of Panama, a land span restricting to around 50 miles (80 km) at a certain point. Drake Passage, south of Cape Horn, isolates South America from Antarctica.

    Generally couple of islands edge the landmass, besides in the south. These incorporate the glaciated beach front archipelagoes of Argentina and Chile. The Falkland (Malvinas) Islands are east of southern Argentina. Toward the north, the West Indies stretch from Trinidad to Florida, yet those islands as a rule are related with North America. Of the rest of, are little maritime islands off the shores of South America, including the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, in the Pacific Ocean.

    South America has an all out area of around 6,878,000 square miles (17,814,000 square km), or approximately one-eighth of the land surface of Earth. Its most prominent north-south degree is around 4,700 miles, from Point Gallinas, Colombia, to Cape Horn, while its most noteworthy east-west degree is exactly 3,300 miles, from Cape Branco, Brazil, to Point Pariñas, Peru. At 22,831 feet (6,959 meters) above ocean level, Mount Aconcagua, in Argentina, close to the line with Chile, isn't hands down the mainland's most noteworthy point yet in addition the most noteworthy rise in the Western Hemisphere. The Valdés Peninsula, on the southeastern shoreline of Argentina, incorporates the absolute bottom, at 131 feet (40 meters) beneath ocean level. Corresponding to its region, the landmass' shoreline around 15,800 miles long is outstandingly short.

    The name America is gotten from that of the Italian guide Amerigo Vespucci, one of the earliest European travelers of the New World. The term America initially was applied uniquely to South America, however the assignment before long was applied to the whole landmass. Since Mexico and Central America share an Iberian legacy with essentially all of South America, this whole locale habitually is gathered under the name Latin America.

    South America's geologic design comprises of two dis-symmetric parts. In the bigger, eastern piece are observed various stable safeguards shaping good country areas, isolated by enormous bowls (counting the immense Amazon bowl). The western part is involved essentially by the Andes Mountains. The Andes-shaped as the South American Plate floated toward the west and constrained the maritime plate toward the west under it-establish an immense spine along the whole Pacific bank of the mainland. The bowls east of the Andes and between the eastern high countries have been loaded up with huge amounts of dregs washed somewhere near the landmass' extraordinary streams and their feeders.

    No other mainland with the exception of Antarctica-infiltrates such a long ways toward the south. Albeit the northern piece of South America expands north of the Equator and four-fifths of its landmass is situated inside the jungles, it additionally comes to subantarctic scopes. A large part of the great Andes exist in the jungles however remember broad zones of mild or cold environment for the area of the Equator-a situation that is special. The extraordinary reach in height creates an unmatched variety of climatic and environmental zones, which is likely the most conspicuous attribute of South American topography.

    The first occupants of South America are accepted to have slipped from a similar Asiatic people groups who relocated to North America from Siberia during the latest (Wisconsin) ice age. Not many of these people groups, be that as it may, endure the appearance of Europeans after 1500, most surrendering to illness or blending in with individuals of European and (particularly in Brazil) African beginning. A few pieces of the mainland are currently industrialized, with present day urban communities, yet individuals in provincial regions actually follow a farming lifestyle. The abundance of mineral items and sustainable assets is significant, yet monetary improvement in the greater part of the mainland lingers behind the more mechanically progressed areas of the world. In any case, concern has emerged with regards to the quickly expanding and regularly damaging abuse of these assets.

    For conversation of individual nations of the landmass, see explicit articles by name-e.g., Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. For conversation of significant urban communities of the mainland, see the articles Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. For conversation of the native people groups of the landmass, see the articles South American Indian; and pre-Columbian human advancements. Related points are talked about in the articles Latin America, history of, and Latin American writing.