Fun Facts About South America
Facts on South America is defined as all the land south of the Panama Canal.
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The stark figures on South America categorize it as a middle of the pack type of content. Covering roughly 6.9 million square miles, it is the fourth largest continent covering approximately 3.5 percent of the surface of our planet.
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From a population standpoint, Facts on South America is home to roughly 370 million people, which makes it the fifth most populated continent.
Fun Facts About South America has many natural resources. Venezuela has significant oil reserves, while iron and copper are present throughout the continent.
The Amazon basin is thought to be home to many resources, including undiscovered medicinal plants, but much of it remains undiscovered to this day.
The Amazon River is one of the two biggest in the world with the other being the Nile.
The Amazon River moves the most water by far, nearly double the amount in the Nile, but is shorter than the Nile.
It starts in the Andes and runs through much of the continent. The minerals and soil it brings from the mountains gives rise to the fertile lands in the center of the continent.
Approximately 40 percent of all the water in South America drains into the river.
Geography on South America
"South America has an area of 17,840,000 km² (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. As of 2005, its population was estimated at more than 371,000,000. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America)."
Geographically, South America has many new attributes in geologic terms.
The bridge connecting South and North America is also only 3 million years old, a blink of the eye in the history of the planet.
Geography on South America - The Andes run down the western coast of the country and are a recent addition.
The central area of the continent is referred to as the Amazon basin and is lightly populated.
The dominant countries in South America are Argentina and Brazil if one goes on size. Brazil is the largest.
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