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South America SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Amphibians p.15
▸ ▸ Explorers p.96
The continent of South America is surrounded by ocean, ▸ ▸ Incas p.132
except at the top where it joins with North America. ▸ ▸ North America
One-third of the continent is covered by a huge jungle, p.184

called the Amazon rain forest. The Andes mountain range ▸ ▸ Rain forests
stretches all the way down one side of South America. p.204
▸ ▸ World p.275

The giant tortoises
of the Galápagos
Islands can live Virgen de Pitcher
for more than la Paz plant
150 years.

Anaconda Amazon
Giant tortoise theater Canoes
Bogotá
About Cathedral
South Piranha
Qualea
America Flute Kapok grandiflora
tree
Capybara
Andean
Population: condor
422.5 million Llama
Reed boat
Amazon Leatherback
turtle
Highest point: rain forest Soccer
Aconcagua The world’s biggest
forest, the Amazon, is Christ the This soapstone
home to thousands of Salt lakes Pampas Redeemer statue is 128 ft
Lowest point: species of plants and grass (39 m) high. It
overlooks the
Laguna del Carbón animals. Many native, Brazilian city of
or indigenous, tribes Rio de Janeiro.
live in the forest, too.
Biggest desert: Polo Machu Picchu
Atacama Desert Built by Inca emperor
Pachacuti in 15th-century
Peru, Machu Picchu is a
Inca builders used
Longest river: Andean interlocking stones spectacular mountain-top
Amazon goose that fitted together town. Many thousands of
very tightly. people visit it every year.
The skin of the
golden poison dart
frog is covered in
a deadly poison.
Perito Moreno
Glacier

Magellanic
penguin
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