MUN/GEO Latin America
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- hacienda
- lrg Spanish-owned estate in the Americas, often run as a farm or cattle ranch
- selva
- forested region in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
- plateau
- area of high, flat land
- cay
- small low island or coral reef
- paramo
- a plateau in the Andes of Ecuador
- timber line
- boundary in high elevations above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow
- irrigation
- watering of farmland with water drawn from reservoirs or rivers
- escarpment
- steep cliff that separates two level areas differing elevations
- el nino
- warm ocean current off South America's northwestern coast that influences global weather patterns
- mestizo
- European and Native American
- pampas
- grasslans region in Argentina and Uraguay
- plantation
- large farm
- mulatto
- person of mixed African and European ancestry
- migrant workers
- a worker who travels from place to place, working where extra work is needed
- estuary
- wide mouth of a river, where freshwater river currents meet salt water
- market economy
- economic system in which descisions about production, price and other economic factors are determined by the law of supply and demand
- gaucho
- cowboy who herded cattle in the pampas of Argentina and Uraguay
- alitplano
- a plateau located in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru
- favela
- slum community in a Brazillian city
- traditional economy
- economic system in which families produce goods and services for their own use, with little surplus and exchange of goods; AKA sustenance economy
- sertao
- interior plateau in Brazil with poor soil and uncertain rainfall
- isthmus
- narrow strip of land having water on each side and joining two larger bodies of land
- peninsula
- strip of land that just ou into an ocean
- cordilla
- related set serparate mountain ranges
- sinkholes
- holes formed when limestone is dissolved causing the land above to collapse
- windward
- facing the wind
- manquiladora
- a factory in Mexico that assembles goods for export
- ejido
- farmland owned collectively by members of a rural community
- gashol
- a fuel mixture of gasoline and ethanol
- cash crop
- a farm crop grown for sale or profit
- bauxite
- mineral used in making aluminum
- leeward
- facing away from the wind
- subsistene farming
- farming that provide only enough for the needs of a family
- command economy
- economic system that is controlled by a single, central governement
- piedmont
- region of rolling foothills
- coral island
- island formed by the skeletal remains of tiny sea animals and the sand and sediment on top of them
- latifundoi
- a large commercial farm owned by a private individual or a farming company
- archipelago
- group of islands
- campesino
- in Latin America, a tenant farmer or farm workers
- NAFTA
- North American Free Trade Agreement, which phased out trade barriers among the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
- caudillo
- local military rulers
- land redistribution
- policy by which land is taken from those who own large amounts and redistributed to those who have little or none
- llano
- grass plain