AMUSING FACTS ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA( WORLD FACT SERIES PART 5)

1) Some indigenous tribes have no contact with modern civilization

2)More than 300 languages are spoken on the continent

3)It used to be connected to Africa

4) La Paz is the highest capital in the world.

5) South America is home to the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela; the highest single drop waterfall Kaieteur Falls in Guyana; the largest river by volume, the Amazon River; the longest mountain range, the Andes (whose highest mountain is Aconcagua at 6,962 m or 22,841 ft); 

 

6) The culture of South America today stems from a diverse set of cultural traditions, dating back to those of pre-Columbian civilisations and indigenous tribes, which have mixed with those of African slaves as well as Asian and European immigrants.

7)South America is home to the driest place on earth - the Atacama Desert.

8) The Norte Chico civilization in Peru is the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the first six independent civilizations in the world; it was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids. It predated the Mesoamerican Olmec by nearly two millennia.

9)It is generally accepted that the name SOUTH AMERICA  derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years. However, some have suggested other explanations, including being named after a mountain range in Nicaragua, or after Richard Amerike of Bristol.

10) Venezuela is among the most violent places in Latin America. Class tension has long been a part of life in the South American country, where armed robberies, carjackings and kidnappings are frequent.

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