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Hunted Facts on south america
- South America is a sub-continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere.
- South America consists of the countries of: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (UK), French Guiana (Fr.), Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
- South America is home to many interesting species of animals including parrots, tarantulas, snakes, and mammals.There are not many large predators in South America, but the Jaguar is one of the strongest predators in the world.
- The Orinoco River drains a lowland in the north; to the south lies the Paraguay-Paraná basin.
- The lowest point in South America (40 m/ 131 ft below sea level) is on Península Valdés in eastern Argentina, and the greatest elevation (6,960 m/22,834 ft) is atop Aconcagua in western Argentina, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere.
- Farther south are the shallow valleys and flat plains of the Gran Chaco and the Pampas, both of which merge with the swampy floodplains of the Paraguay and Paraná rivers.
- South America is a part of the American continent traversed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere.
- South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
- South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are also suggestions of migration from the southern Pacific Ocean.
- During the period 1990–95, the process of deforestation in South America alone resulted in the loss of 24 million ha59 million acres of tropical rainforest.
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