Tierra, clima, recursos.
Colombia sits in the northwestern corner of South America and is the only country on the continent with coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The Andes mountains split into three parallel ranges, the Cordillera Occidental, Central, and Oriental, running north to south through the western half of the country. East of […]
Chile occupies a long, narrow strip of land along the western edge of South America, stretching more than 4,300 kilometers from the Atacama Desert in the north to Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian channels in the south. The Andes mountains form its eastern border with Argentina and Bolivia, while the Pacific Ocean defines its […]
Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering much of the Amazon basin and the world’s largest tropical rainforest. Its geography spans the dense Amazon lowlands in the north, the Brazilian Highlands across the center and southeast, and an extensive coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. Climate is predominantly tropical, with equatorial conditions in the […]
Bolivia is a landlocked country divided between the Andean highlands in the west and Amazon basin lowlands in the east. The Altiplano, a high plateau shared with Peru, holds Lake Titicaca and the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, alongside the administrative capital La Paz, one of the highest capital cities in the […]
Argentina is the second largest country in South America, extending from the subtropical north through the temperate Pampas to the subantarctic landscapes of Tierra del Fuego in the far south. Its geography includes the Andes mountains along the western border, home to Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, alongside the fertile Pampas grasslands […]
