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- Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
- cultural region
- Lake Titicaca
- a deep lake in the Andes Mountains between Peru and Bolivia where it is bitterly cold
- Gabriela Mistral
- Chilean poet that wrote for and about children that won the Nobel Prize and was a school teacher
- pressures of rapid population growth
- provide electricity, provide clean water, provide housing
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Columbian who received the Nobel Prize and wrote novels about generations of life in one family
- Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
- Cultural region in the northern part of South AMerica that borders the Caribbean Sea and whose culture is similar to the Caribbean Islands
- native Americans, Africans or Europeans
- people of South America are descendants of these groups
- rural areas outside of Chile, Argentina and Uruaguay
- area where most most farming is subsistence farming of corn, beans, potatoes and rice
- Sao Paulo
- Brazil's largest city that is home to more Japanese than any other place besides Japan
- Isabel Allende
- Chilean who wrote novels about generations of life in one family
- African
- a modern Carribean culture would blend this tradition
- subsistence farming
- to grow food for own famililes' needs; the practice of growing only as much food as a group of people needs to survive
- Brazil
- the largest country in South America that was a colony of Portugal which is culturally diverse and where many people have moved to from other countries
- How do languages and religion reflect its history?
- It explains how they got their culture and who gave them their culture
- Bolivia
- South American country where there are more indigenous people than mestizos
- Argentina
- a country in South America that has many different ethnic groups and a separate culture on the Pampas where gauchos herd cattle
- Peru, Ecuador and bolivia
- Cultural region made of Andean countries. Native Americans live in the Andes Mountains
- Pablo Neruda
- Chilean poet that wrote about everyday objects such as rain tomatoes and socks that won the Nobel Prize
- importing
- the buying or bringing in of goods from another country
- Spanish
- main language of South America
- totora reeds
- a thick, hollow grass that was used to make floating islands to hide from the Incas, medicine, food and tea
- Catholic
- main religion of South America
- llamas
- a relative of the camel that is raised by the indigenous people of the Andes
- import
- something that is bought and brought into your country; to bring products into one country from another to sell
- Chile
- a country in South America that has mountains, beaches, deserts, forests and polar regions where most people are mestizos
- Andes
- located in Western South America; a mountain system extending along the western coast of South America