2. Regions of Latin America Central America The Caribbean South America South America

4. Mountains and Peaks Andes Mts. Sierra Madres Mts. Guiana Highlands Brazilian Highlands Patagonian Plateau

5. Elevation

6. Andes Mountains- 4400 miles long, up to 300 miles wide

7. The Sierra Madres, Mexico

8. Valleys Plains and Basins Amazon Basin Pampas

9. Amazon Rain Forest

10. Amazon Rain Forest produces 20% of the world’s oxygen

11. Three-Tiered Vegetation

12. Deforestation in the Amazon

13. Original Forest Cover Future Forest Cover Current Forest Cover

14. Cattle Ranching on the Pampas

15. Deserts Atacama Desert

16. Atacama Desert-driest (non- polar) place on earth!

17. Other features Panama Canal

18. The Panama Canal

19. Earthquake Zones

20. 12/23/72 Earthquake hits Managua, Nicaragua 5,000 dead, 250,000 homeless out of 2.6 million in the country Contributed to eventual overthrow of Somoza

21. Hurricanes Hurricanes 2010 1998 Hurricane Mitch: 20,000 dead, $5 billion

22. The Tropical Hemisphere

23. Vertical Climate Zones

24. LatinAmerica’sPopulationDistribution

25. Population and Projections

26. What would have caused this rapid increase post-1950?

27. LatAm birth rates have been falling dramatically since 1970 1960-1965: 6.0 births per woman 2000-2005: 2.9 births per woman http://www.indexmundi.com/map.aspx?v=Birth+rate(births%2f1%2c000+population)

28. Cities Mexico City Havana Port-au-Prince Panama City Santiago Lima Buenos Aires Sao Paulo Rio De Janeiro Caracas Bogota

29. Largest cities—growing urbanization Mexico City (Mexico) 22.7 million (1 in 5) Sao Paulo (Brazil) 20. 5 million (1 in 10) Buenos Aires (Argentina) 13 million (1 in 3) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 12 million Bogotá (Colombia) 8.6 million (1 in 5) Lima (Peru) 8.5 million (1 in 3) Santiago (Chile ) 7 million (1 in 2.5)

30. LatAm Urban Population 1950 40% 2010 80%

31. Sao Paolo, Brazil

32. Overcrowding in Sao Paolo, Brazil

33. Squatter Settlements in Major Latin American Cities