A region of South America that runs from Columbia, through Ecuador and Peru into Bolivia and parts of the Amazon rainforest with a significant indigenous population is primarily located.
The grasslands of South America.
An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.
Volcanic regions fed by mantle from below the earth's surface. Nit caused by tectonic plate movement.
An indigenous group inhabiting lands in central Chile and southwest Argentina.
Occurs when countries, after very rapid growth from low to middle income status, falter due to poor infrastructure-poor roads and inadequate sanitation, education and health facilities- and low productivity.
A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.
A policy implemented by the US that laid claim to geopolitical influence in the Central American and Caribbean region.
Occurred when European colonists came to the New World and brought diseases that killed millions of indigenous people.
An economic ideology that promotes deregulation, minimal or small government, low taxation, and free trade.
A period of rapid economic growth in Brazil that lasted from 1968 to 1980.
The principle of political or commercial cooperation between the US and the countries of South America, as well as those in Central America and the Caribbean.
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