1. AGED 4713 By Manuel Corro AGED 4713
11/20/01
The Americas
By Manuel Corro
AGED 4713
Manuel Corro

2. The American Continent
Three in one
North America
Central America
South America

3. North America Canada The United States Mexico
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA 1994)

4. Latin America
Latin America, the entire western hemisphere south of the United States.
Latin America comprises those countries of the Americas that developed from the colonies of Spain, Portugal, and France.

5. Latin America
Because these European powers used languages derived from Latin, the term Latin America was devised to designate the parts of the New World that they colonized.
Spanish
Portuguese
French

6. Latin America
Spanish is the official language in 17 countries in North, Central And South America and Two Caribbean countries
One Portuguese country: Brazil
French: Haiti

7. Non Latin countries Central America South America: Caribbean
English: Belize
South America:
English: Guyana
Dutch: Suriname
Caribbean
English: Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago

8. Mexico

9. Mexican Southern states
Yucatán
Quintana Roo
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
Capital city
Mérida
Chetumal
Campeche
Villahermosa
Tuxtla Gutiérrez
Quintana Roo has border with Belize
Campeche has borders with Belize and Guatemala
Tabasco and Chiapas have border with Guatemala

11. Central America 7 countries 521,500 sq km(201,300 sq mi)
36.4 million inhabitants
Geographers defined: from isthmus of Tehuantepec (southern Mexico) to Colombia
Farming is the leading economic activity
The principal cash crops, such as coffee, bananas, sugarcane, and cotton.

12. Central America Countries and capital cities
Guatemala
Belize
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Guatemala
Belize
San Salvador
Tegucigalpa
Managua
San Jose
Panama

13. Foreign Trade
About half of Central America's intercontinental trade is with the United States and Canada. Almost all the rest is with Western Europe, Mexico, and countries of South America.
The main exports are basic commodities: bananas, coffee, cacao, meat, chicle, cotton, mahogany, balsa, hides and skins, and rubber.
Caribbean Basin Initiative (1984) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1994)

14. Caribbean countries Cuba Jamaica Haiti Dominican Republic Barbados
Grenada
Trinidad and Tobago
La Habana (Havana)
Kingston
Port Prince
Santo Domingo
Bridgetown
St. George’s
Port of Spain

15. South America

16. South America:
South America, fourth largest of the Earth's continents (after Asia, Africa, and North America)
17,820,900 sq km (6,880,700 sq mi), or 12 percent of the Earth's land surface.
2000 estimated population of 348 million, or 6 percent of the world's people.

17. South America: Countries and Capital cities
Colombia
Venezuela
Ecuador
Brazil
Peru
Bolivia
Paraguay
Argentina
Uruguay
Chile
Bogota
Caracas
Quito
Brasilia
Lima
La Paz
Asuncion
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Santiago

18. South America: Non Latin countries
Guyana
Suriname
French Guiana
Georgetown
Paramaribo
Cayenne

19. South America: People Language: Ethnology: Diverse ethnic heritage
9 countries speak Spanish
1 country speaks Portuguese
Other languages: English, Dutch and French
Paraguay 2 official languages: Spanish & Guaraní
Ethnology: Diverse ethnic heritage
Europeans: Spaniards, Portuguese,
Native Americans
African blacks
Mestizo
Mulatto

20. South America: People
Total population 348 million
50 %

21. South America: Agriculture
Most crop and livestock production in South America is for home consumption and domestic markets.
Staple food:
Root crops: potatoes and cassava
Grains: rice, wheat, beans, and corn
Export-oriented agriculture is pursued in the tropical areas and mid-latitudes.

22. South America: Agriculture (continued)
Tropical crops, coffee is the most important (southeastern Brazil and in west central Colombia)
Cacao is important in eastern Brazil and west central Ecuador.
Bananas are grown for export in Colombia and western Ecuador
Sugarcane for export in coastal Peru, Guyana, Suriname, and northeastern and southeastern Brazil for export and domestic markets.

23. Argentina and Uruguay have good grass grassy plains for raising cattle.

24. South America: Agriculture (continued)
Argentine wheat, corn, linseed, beef, mutton, hides, and wool are important items of international trade.
Uruguay has a long-standing export trade dominated by beef, wool and hides.
In southeastern Brazil soybeans have, since the 1970s, become an important export crop. Soybeans are less important in Argentina

25. South America: trade
Most of South America's trade is intercontinental, the United States, Western Europe, and Japan being major trading partners. Petroleum and its derivatives are the principal components of foreign trade.
Brazil and Venezuela dominate the continent's export trade, and Brazil accounts for much of the imports.

26. South America: trade (continued)
Venezuela's crude and refined oil production drive the economy, accounting for about three-quarters of the country's revenue from exports.
A founding member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), most of Venezuela's oil production goes to the United States after refining in the Netherlands Antilles.

27. South America: trade
The development of free trade, beginning in the late 1960s with the Andean Pact (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela)
Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, with Bolivia as an associate member)
The Group of Three (Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), has greatly improved South America's economic prospects.

28. São Paulo is one of Brazil's major manufacturing centers.

29. References David J. Robinson, B.A., Ph.D.
”Central America". Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia (20 Nov. 2001)
"South America". Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia (20 Nov. 2001)