It is the tallest mountain found outside of Asia. There are also the rarer but ecologically very important cloud forests - a cooler mountain forest - in Panama and Costa Rica. This tropical biome has as many as different tree species on a single acre, including the rubber tree, silk cotton tree, and Brazil nut tree.
These black Latin Americans are mainly the descendants of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the region to work on sugar-cane plantations. More than 2 million species of insects are native to the region, including hundreds of spiders and butterflies.
The Llanos is primarily made up of grasses. Other indigenous languages include Aymara, spoken in Bolivia and Peru, and Wayuu, spoken in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela. Carpet grass is found in the higher and drier elevations.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America is an organization which seeks the social, political, and economic integration of countries in both Latin America and the Caribbean. When European settlers mainly Spanish and Portuguese arrived in the 16th century they found a number of thriving indigenous cultures.
Situated on the far western edge of the continent, the Andes stretch from the southern tip to the northernmost coast of South America. Thermal inversion produces a thick layer of cloud s at low altitudes.
The basin, which covers most of northern South America, is fed by tributaries from the glaciers of the Andes.
Even some of the poorest indigenous people always seemed to have time for a joke and a smile with their friends. In the extreme south of Argentina, there is a sub arctic climate.