America

South American varieties

Técnico Saleciano

Eighth: H

Name: Carlos Ariel Galindo Abril

Teacher: Karina Noemi
Arias Mogrovejo

Year

2021-2022

Important facts of the continent

The best known country in South America

Tourism is an important economic activity for Colombia. The person in charge of its regulation is the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.

Largest country in South America

Brazil is the country with the largest territory in Latin America, covering a land area of more than 8.5 million square kilometers.

The largest mountain in South America

It integrates the Main Cordillera, which is a component of the Andes mountain range. With an altitude of 6960.8

The most important rivers in South America

The Amazon River: It is a river in South America that runs through Peru, Colombia and Brazil. It is the longest and mightiest river in the world, and contains more water than the Nile, the Yangtze and the Mississippi combined, accounting for about a fifth of the fresh liquid water on the planet.

The Purús River is a large river located in Peru and Brazil, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River.

The Tocantins River is a long Brazilian river whose waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean, near the mouth of the Amazon River, east of the Marajó peninsula.

Facts about Colombia

Capital

Bogotá is the extensive capital in height of Colombia. La Candelaria, its cobbled downtown, boasts colonial sites like the neoclassical Teatro Colón and the 17th-century Iglesia de San Francisco.

Lenguage

There are some indigenous languages that are spoken in certain places of high or pure indigenous population.

Coin

In Colombia the legal currency is the Colombian peso 0.0004 $

The most important and well-known cities

The best known cities in Colombia are: Bogotá
Medellín, Barranquilla, Cali, Cartagena de Indias.

Colombia, with a population of 50,374,000 people, is in position 28 in the population table, made up of 196 countries and has a moderate population density, 44 inhabitants per km2.

This is one of the best known places in Colombia: Tayrona Park (Santa Marta)

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