2. Reminders!
HW #1 due Tuesday Maps: DUE WED

3. Latin America

4. Warm-up
Make as many examples of landforms as you can!

10. rainforest

11. desert

12. What is Latin America? Reaches from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn.
Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands and South America

14. Climate and Ecosystems
More than 1/2 the continent lies between the tropics - therefore the sun is directly overhead for much of the year. This makes it HOT almost everywhere except in the mountains
Mountains create their own climates-elevation and distance from the equator.

15. Landforms
Andes Mountains – 4,400 miles long with average height of 13,000 ft.
Aconcagua – highest peak 22,841 ft.
Amazon River – largest river in the world by volume 16% of all river water
Creates 1/5 of total fresh water empting into oceans
Amazon rainforest – 1/3 of all species in the world live here

16. Population
The first people probably came from Asia, crossing the Bering Strait thousands of years ago.

17. Three Important Early Civilizations
The Mayas - Yucatan Peninsula & Guatemalan lowlands
Aztecs in central Mexico
Incas in the Andes Mountains (present day Peru)

18. Recent Influences
For more than 300 years most countries of L.A. were colonies of Spain and Portugal (French, English, Dutch,)
The term Latin refers to the Spanish and Portuguese languages
It also refers to the cultural heritage that Spain and Portugal established in America

19. Latin America is carved up
Portugal took over Brazil
The Spanish conquered Central America and the western coast of South America
The French, England and the Netherlands claimed islands in the Caribbean.

21. Latin and then some The cultural heritage of Africa is also a part of
Latin culture.

22. Country Population White Mestizo Mulatto Amerindian Black
White and Mestizo
Mixed
Other
Argentina
40,301,927
97% 3%
Aruba
100,018
80%
20%
Bolivia
9,119,152
15%
30%
55%
Brazil
190,010,647
53.7%
38.5%
6.2%
1.6%
Chile
16,284,741
95% 2%
Colombia
44,379,598
58%
14% 1% 4%
Costa Rica
4,133,884
94%
Cuba
11,394,043
37%
51%
11%
Dominican Republic
9,365,818
16%
73%
Ecuador
13,755,680
65%
25% 7%
El Salvador
6,948,073 9%
90%
Guatemala
12,728,111
40.5%
59.4%
0.1%
Haiti
8,706,497 5%
Honduras
7,483,763
Mexico
108,700,891
60%
Nicaragua
5,675,356
17%
69%
Panama
3,242,173
10%
70% 6%
Paraguay
6,669,086
Peru
28,674,757
45%
Puerto Rico
3,944,259
80.5%
0.4% 8%
4.1%
U.S. Virgin Islands
108,448
13.1%
76.2%
3.5%
7.2%
Uruguay
3,460,607
88%
Venezuela
26,023,528
41%
49%
Total
561,211,057
33.9%
27%
1 5.2%
10.9%
4.9%
4.8%
1.7%

23. Land and People
More than 23 nations with many diverse landforms, environments and peoples.
Some land rich in resources - others have very few.
Therefore - some places are densely populated and others are empty of human life.