With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America.

The map represents a flawed understanding of New World geography, such as picturing California as an island. Many maps of the Americas were produced during the period of exploration and colonial ...

Department of Geography Colloquium Series Hosted by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Faculty Book Presentation: Radical Cartographies: ...

It will remain Gulf of Mexico for users within Mexico. Google Maps will display both Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America to users who are neither in the US nor in Mexico.

STUDY LOCATIONS using your 1:4,000,000 South America map and sample outline maps: Geography.About.com maps: South America A note: Matt Rosenberg, the geography guy at About.com is a part-timer with ...

There are admirable illustrations and sketch-maps and copious bibliographies, while the text shows a pleasing absence of New World phraseology. Economic Geography of South America.

A collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters about some of the South America's most significant places and landmarks.

South America is home to 19 countries and an incredibly diverse geography. The site of ancient civilizations, European colonies and emerging world powers, South America will play an increasingly ...

Since other continent names were feminine in Latin – Europa, Africa, Asia – the author reasoned that the name of this new land should also be feminised, into “America, after its discoverer”.

It has long been a conundrum: Why, with so rich a natural resource base, did Latin America slip so far behind Europe and North America in terms of economic development? And why, even among developing ...