Physical Geography Of Latin America

Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.

This essay, firstly, will look at to what extent physical geography has affected Latin America in terms of economic growth. Secondly, it will focus on the other possible factors which have affected its economic growth. There has been much debate over the cause with some stating that geography is the culprit while others blame more social aspects such as politics and political instability, inequality, and educational attainment. This essay will attempt to evaluate to what extent these claims are true.

Latin America went from isolated to connected with the rest of the world during the time period 1450 to 1750 because of colonization by the Europeans. However, the economy, slavery, and the tribal systems stayed the same.

The Andes Mountains come from Argentina all the way to Colombia. After reaching Colombia, the Andes Mountain is divided in three paths. In the article "Colombia", Oxford References express that the south of Colombia is rich in soil until reaching Amazonas, the largest rainforest in South-America, which is also shared with Brazil. These soil provide the enough food for consumption and to export. On the north side of the Andes Mountains, Colombia has several rivers that lead out to the coast side including the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the Northwest.

The physical geography of Latin America and the Caribbean greatly affect where people live by making some places are more desirable than others. One examples is the Panama Canal, which is runs across the Panama Isthmus in Central America. The Panama Canal is a large man-made canal, that connects the two largest bodies of water in the world. People live very closely to the Panama Canal, meaning it has a high population density there and in the surrounding areas. The population around the canal is 250-1,249 people per square mile. People tend to live near this feature because the canal and water provide so many valuable assets, such as sea animals for marine jobs, boats for repairmen and traders, transportation, tourism, swimming, and many more.

The Spanish and the indigenous people of Latin America (for the effects of this paper, I will use the term “Indian” as the identifying term for them) were two antithetical cultures that did not know that the other existed throughout their history; when Christopher Columbus landed in the “New World” during his first voyage, it was the reencounter of two societies that have been living differently until that moment…conflict is bound to happen anywhere. Both civilizations have some differences in the sense that the Spanish concentrated their lives on being prosperous and individualism, yet the Indians lived to serve the stability of their society and their structure rather than the individual. The Spanish and the Indians were definitely antithetical in some aspects; however, many similarities between the two

On a map, the top of South America is where the country of Colombia resides. Colombia meets the Caribbean Sea on one side, along with Panama and Venezuela, while the other side meets the northern Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama. Colombia may only cover about one percent of the world’s real estate but it possess nearly 10 percent of the world’s flora and fauna (PBS WEBSITE). Colombia's biggest exports are petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas and cut

Middle America is a relatively vague term referring to the places lying in the middle of the Americas including Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and sometimes, Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas. Middle America, amongst the southern Rocky Mountains and the northern tip of the Andes from the southern border of the US to the northern border of Colombia, marking the territorial conversion from North America to South America. The transformation between this designation and Central America is that Middle America includes Mexico occasionally it also includes the West Indies. The physical geography of South America is conquered by the Andes Highlands, which stretches towards the Pacific shoreline of the landmass. The Amazon Basin controls the

Much like in North America, Latin America was used as a means of economic growth

Panama is in Central America and is in the Northern Hemisphere. The capital of Panama is Panama City. By researching Panama’s geography, people, economics, and government, we learn amazing information about Panama.

South America is located under Mexico and Brazil is in South America. In South America, there are 422 million people that live there. There are 12 countries in South America and 3 of them are major territories. North America is bigger than South America, but just by a bit. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans border the whole continent of South America.

The southeast is a subtropical climate. The west is a tropical climate because it is warm all year. It is cold and moist in the southeast because it is near the ocean, but it is still in the 60 to 70 degrees in the fall.

Bolivia, also known as Plurinational State of Bolivia, is located in the Western-Central part of South America with the capital being located at La Paz. With an area of 1,098,581 square kilometers, it is ranked 27th in terms of country land-mass. The country borders 5 countries, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Peru. Bolivia retains positive relationships with its neighbors apart from Chile due to historical disputes and war. Bolivia is covered by the Andean Mountains that dominates over the west region. Other geographical features include the Cordillera Occidental line of dormant volcanoes on the west, the Cordillera Central that is a mountain range that divides the 3 river basins, the Cordillera Oriental on the east which is a series

South America have less but here are the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and last but not least Uruguay. Even though North and South America is two different continents they still have a lot of similarities. But at the same time they also have there differences. North and South America have different states and city. But that doesn't mean they don't have anything in common.

The climate in the highlands varies with latitude, elevation, other topography and continental location. In rugged mountain areas such as the Andes of South America, the climates can vary based on the factors as whether a slope faces south or north and whether it is exposed to winds that are carrying