America

World TourismWeek 3

Prepared by: Aireen Y. Clores

Travel to South America

• South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.

Travel to South America

• South America has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (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).

Geography• South America comprises the major southern portion of the

landmass generally referred to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, or simply America (which is sometimes considered a single continent and South America a subcontinent).

• South America is home to the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela, the largest river (by volume), the Amazon River, the longest mountain range, the Andes, the driest desert, Atacama Desert, the largest rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest, the highest railroad, Ticlio Peru, the highest capital city, La Paz, Bolivia, the highest commercially navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, and the world's southernmost town, Puerto Toro, Chile.

SOUTH AMERICA• The fourth largest

continent• Brazil, South America’s

largest country• There are 12 countries in

South America.– Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,

Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Language

• Spanish is the most widespread language of the continent, as Spanish is the official language of most South American nations. However, the majority of South Americans (51%) speak Portuguese, the official language of Brazil. Dutch is the official language of Suriname; English the official language of Guyana; and French the official language of French Guiana.

Language

• Indigenous languages of South America include: Quechua (in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador); Aymara (Bolivia, Chile and Peru); Guaraní (in Paraguay and Bolivia); and Mapudungun (Chile and certain pockets of Argentina).

Language

• Other Languages: – Hindi and Indonesian in Suriname; – Italian in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, Venezuela,

Colombia; – German in certain pockets in Brazil, Argentina, Chile,

Venezuela, Colombia and Paraguay; – Welsh remains spoken and written in the historic towns of

Trelew and Rawson in Patagonia, Argentina; small cluster groups of Japanese speakers in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Ecuador;

– Arabic speakers, often of Lebanese and Syrian descent, in Arab communities of Chile, Brazil and Argentina.

What Tourist Expect?• The Mighty Amazon starts in the Andes Mountains in Peru to

the Atlantic Ocean• Patagonia (pata – paw or foot)Desert is the Biggest Dessert in all

of North and South America• Atacama Desert in northern Chile between the Andes

Mountains and the Pacific Ocean• The pampas called gauchos by the cowboys captured wild

horses and tended herd of cattle.• Angels falls is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world

named after James C. Angel, and adventurer from the United States who spotted the falls in 1935.

Culture• Latin Americans belief of

Supernatural• A Huastec stone carver

made this statue to represent someone very powerful. To show the figure's power, the artist gave him two faces.

• One side of the statue is a healthy young boy. But if you turn him around, you can see a skeleton on the other side • A Life Death Figure

The Inca Empire

• A Vast kingdom in south america, and built a complex civilization.

Living off the land• In Latin America, what you eat

and how you make your living depends on where you live. People in big cities buy their food in supermarkets, and many work in offices. In the countryside, many people still grow their own food and prepare it as they have since pre-Columbian times, using ancient tools like the metate and the ceramic water jug. They may sell their harvest in order to buy what they need at their village's weekly marketplace.

• The metate Ceramic

Geography Quiz: South America

NORTH AMERICA

North America

• long known as the New World by the people of Europe. Of course, North America was only “new” to the Europeans. Native Americans had lived there for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

• Colonists from England, France, and Spain flocked to North America after Christopher Columbus’s famous voyage in 1492.

• Third largest continent

Why is if called North America?

• comes from an Italian navigator named Amerigo Vespucci who explored part of South America in the late 1490s.

• America is a version of Amerigo’s name• Known as the land of immigrants; home to

over 518 million people. It’s the world’s fourth most populated continent. It is also home to three of the world’s largest cities: Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles.

Popular Cities in North America

Name the countries of North America

Must see attractions

Must see attractions

Desert in Nevada, Northern MexicoRocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico

Must see attractions

Canadian Shield Mississippi River; largest river

Mexico city; the largest city