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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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Income share held by highest 10%". The World Bank. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 June 2012 . Retrieved 24 May 2012. Also, in South America, a multi-sport event, the South American Games, are held every four years. The first edition was held in La Paz in 1978 and the most recent took place in Santiago in 2014. Between 1836 and 1839 the War of the Confederation broke out between the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation and Chile, with the support of the Argentine Confederation. The war was fought mostly in the actual territory of Peru and ended with a Confederate defeat and the dissolution of the Confederacy and annexation of many territories by Argentina.

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An isolated volcanic island on the South American Plate, Ascension Island is geologically a part of South America. [30] Administered as a dependency of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, the island is geopolitically a part of Africa. An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.”Chile is one of the five largest world producers of cherry and cranberry, and one of the 10 largest world producers of grape, apple, kiwi, peach, plum and hazelnut, focusing on exporting high-value fruits; June 14, 1982: Falklands War comes to an end as Britain accepts Argentina's surrender". BT Group. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020 . Retrieved 6 December 2020. In 2018, Argentina was the fourth largest producer of beef in the world, with a production of 3 million tonnes (behind only the United States, Brazil and China). Uruguay is also a major meat producer. In 2018, it produced 589 thousand tonnes of beef. [115]

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Government and politics [ edit ] Headquarters of the UNASUR in Quito, Ecuador Scheme for geographic regions and subregions used by the United Nations Statistics Division South American flags Peru is the world's largest producer of quinoa; is one of the five largest producers of avocado, blueberry, artichoke and asparagus; one of the 10 largest producers in the world of coffee and cocoa; one of the 15 largest producers in the world of potato and pineapple, and also has a considerable production of grape, sugarcane, rice, banana, maize and cassava; its agriculture is considerably diversified;

Perry discusses various historical figures from the South during her travels. While in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, she documents the history of Shields Green, one of the raiders who took part in John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry, a failed attempt by abolitionists to seize control of the Harper's Ferry Armory and foment a nationwide slave rebellion. She discusses historical massacres such as Wilmington Massacre of 1898 as well as more contemporary racially motivated crimes such as the Charleston church shooting. Other parts of the book shift in focus to memoir as Perry discusses the lives of her grandmother and other family members who grew up in the South. The overall conclusion of the book is that racism was heavily ingrained in the American South, indeed the history of America, and that it's effects continue to permeate to this day as racism remains pervasive in modern American society. Eventually, the natives and the Spaniards interbred, forming a mestizo class. At the beginning, many mestizos of the Andean region were offspring of Amerindian mothers and Spanish fathers. After independence, most mestizos had native fathers and European or mestizo mothers.

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East Asian religions such as Japanese Buddhism, Shintoism, and Shinto-derived Japanese New Religions are common in Brazil and Peru. Korean Confucianism is especially found in Brazil while Chinese Buddhism and Chinese Confucianism have spread throughout the continent.

All South American countries are presidential republics with the exception of Suriname, a parliamentary republic. French Guiana is a French overseas department, while the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are British overseas territories. It is currently the only inhabited continent in the world without monarchies; the Empire of Brazil existed during the 19th century and there was an unsuccessful attempt to establish a Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia in southern Argentina and Chile. Also in the twentieth century, Suriname was established as a constituent kingdom of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Guyana retained the British monarch as head of state for 4 years after its independence. Nakamura, Akemi (15 January 2008). "Japan, Brazil mark a century of settlement, family ties". Japan Times. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson Income share held by lowest 20%". The World Bank. 2017. Archived from the original on 19 June 2016 . Retrieved 29 May 2019.

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a b "Guyana – The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021 . Retrieved 4 January 2021. Borges, Fernando Tadeu de Miranda. "A Guerra do Paraguai – História – Resumo". Historiadobrasil.net (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 8 March 2017 . Retrieved 26 January 2017. United Nations Statistics Division – Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications (M49)". Unstats.un.org. 20 September 2011. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018 . Retrieved 21 May 2012. The Atacama Desert is part of the western coastal plain. The Atacama is considered the driest region in the world. The average rainfall is about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) a year, and some parts of the Atacama have never had rain in recorded history. Brazil has more than 1.7 million km of roads, of which 215,000km are paved, and about 14,000km are divided highways. The two most important highways in the country are BR-101 and BR-116. [228] Argentina has more than 600,000km of roads, of which about 70,000km are paved, and about 2,500km are divided highways. The three most important highways in the country are Route 9, Route 7 and Route 14. [228] Colombia has about 210,000km of roads, and about 2,300km are divided highways. [229] Chile has about 82,000km of roads, 20,000km of which are paved, and about 2,000km are divided highways. The most important highway in the country is the Route 5 ( Pan-American Highway) [230] These 4 countries are the ones with the best road infrastructure and with the largest number of double-lane highways.

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a b Review of the Protected Areas System in Oceania (PDF). International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1986. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 January 2022 . Retrieved 17 January 2022. Easter Island on the east has been included on the basis of its Polynesian and biogeographic affinities even though it is politically apart. The other islands of the eastern Pacific (Galapagos, Juan Fernandez, etc.) have sometimes been included in Oceania.

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