Latin America

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Llanos

(in South America) a treeless grassy plain.

Cordilleras

A cordillera is an extensive chain of mountains or mountain ranges.

Altiplano

The Altiplano, Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside of Tibet.

Amazon River

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world, and either the second or first in length.

Amazon Basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 6,915,000 km², or roughly 40 percent of the South American continent.

Andres Mountain

The Andes, running along South America's western side, is among the world's longest mountain ranges.

Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world

Brazilian Highlands

The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau are an extensive geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all approximately half of the country's land area, or some 4,500,000 km.

Mexican Plateau

The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano, is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.

Mato Grosso Plateau

The Mato Grosso Plateau is a plateau in central Brazil occupying most of the state of Mato Grosso. It contains mostly savanna and woodland.

Rio Grande

The Rio Grande is one of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico. The Rio Grande rises from south-central Colorado in the United States and flows to the Gulf of Mexico

Rio de la Plata

The Río de la Plata rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River in other English-speaking countries ,is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers

Yucatan Peninsula

The Yucatan Peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea, encompassing 3 Mexican states, plus portions of Belize and Guatemala.

Escarpment

a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights.

Canopy

an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed

Hydroelectric Power

is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower

Pampas

the vast grassy plains of southern South America, especially in Argentina.


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