• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Generally speaking:
• The Amazon is the largest tropical rain-forest in the world.
• The Amazon is world’s largest river and South Americas longest river; 6 516 km long.
• Andes are the longest mountain range in the world.
• The Aconcagua (Argentina) is the highest mountain in the South America; 6 962 meters.

Capital: Buenos Aires
Language: Spanish
Population: 35 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: chemicals, cars, food, mining, textiles.

Agriculture products: livestock, wheat, wool.

Generally speaking:
• Argentina consists of 23 provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires who is capital city of Argentina.
• Cerro Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Argentina but laso highest in the Americas (located in the Andes mountain range).

Capital: La Paz
Language: Spanish
Population: 7 600 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: food, metallurgy, petroleum refining and natural gas, textile.

Agriculture products: coffee, cacao, cotton, wheat, rice, fruits, sugar.

Capital: Brasilia
Language: Portuguese
Population: 160 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: car, food, metallurgy, chemicals, textiles and tourism.

Agriculture products: cacao, coffee, fruits, wheat, beans, sugar.

Generally speaking:
• At the time of Portuguese arrival in Brazil (the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500) it is estimated that on the territory lived few thousand tribes.
• During Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal, Rio de Janeiro (established in 1567) was the capital of the Portugal and Portuguese empire (from 1808 to 1815).
• The Amazon River (flows Through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela) is the largest river in the world by volume.

Capital: Santiago
Language: Spanish
Population: 15 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: food, mining, wood.

Agriculture products: fruits and vegetables, seafood, wheat.

Capital: Bogota
Language: Spanish
Population: 38 500 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: chemical, food, mining, textiles, metallurgy.

Agriculture products: coffee, cotton, fruits(tropic) and vegetables, wheat, livestock, tobacco.

Capital: Quito
Language: Spanish / Quechua
Population: 12 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: chemicals and petroleum, food, textiles.

Agriculture products: fruits (tropic), cacao, coffee, rice, livestock and wheat.

Generally speaking:
• Ecuador’s climate is stretching from tropic Pacific coast, over the mountainous Andes to the Amazon rain forest climate.
• Ecuador’s highest mountain is Chimborazo; 6 310 meters.
• The Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, about 1 000 km or 600 miles from mainland Ecuador.
• The Galapagos Islands are an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Galapagos Islands are source of inspiration for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Capital: Georgetown
Language: English
Population: 900 000
Religion: Christian, Hindu, Muslim

Industries: food, metallurgy.

Agriculture products: fruits and vegetables, seafood, rice, wheat.

Capital: Asuncion
Language: Spanish
Population: 5 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: food, textiles, wood.

Agriculture products: cotton, coffee, livestock, rice, wheat.

Capital: Lima
Language: Spanish
Population: 24 500 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: food, car, cement, mining and metallurgy, textiles.

Agriculture products: coffee, cotton, seafood, rice, sugar, livestock.

Generally speaking:
• The Norte Chico civilization were first inhabitants of Peruvian territory.
• At the time of Spanish conquerors arrival in 1533, led by Francisco Pizarro, Inca civilization had spread throughout Peru and western part of South America.
• Highest peak in Peruvian part of the Andes mountains is the Huascarán at 6 768 meters (22 205 ft.).