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Map of Latin America and the Caribbean. The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC [1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile.
The culture of these regions were heavily influenced by the South American cowboy, known as the gaucho. Rioplatense region – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and parts of Paraguay . This region, due to extensive immigration from Europe, mainly from Italy , Spain , and Portugal maintains a very European culture in terms of cuisine, art ...
The term "Latin America" is defined to mean parts of Americas south of the mainland of the United States of America where a Romance language (a language derived from Latin) predominates. Latin America are the countries and territories in the Americas which speak Spanish or Portuguese, with French being sometimes included.
Latin America refers to the regions in the Americas where Romance languages—derived from Latin, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French—are predominantly spoken. The term is commonly used to describe South America (excluding Suriname , Guyana and the Falkland islands ), Central America , Mexico , and most of the islands in the Caribbean .
Cartography of Latin America, map-making of the realms in the Western Hemisphere, was an important aim of European powers expanding into the New World. Both the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire began mapping the realms they explored and settled. They also speculated on the lands that were marked terra incognita. Indigenous groups ...
2006-02-25T21:55:59Z NoIdeaNick 390x450 (22987 Bytes) Changed map to reflect the fact that Jamaica is not part of Latin America. 2006-01-19T14:36:54Z NoIdeaNick 390x450 (23048 Bytes) Just a little change to the color of Belize.
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
Linguistic map of Latin America. Spanish in green, Portuguese in orange, and French in blue. Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican ...