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Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, many of the indigenous peoples of South America were hunter-gatherers and indeed many still are, especially in the Amazon rainforest. Others, especially the Andean cultures , practised sophisticated agriculture, utilized advanced irrigation and kept domesticated livestock , such as llamas and ...
The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
South America has a population of over 428 million people. They are distributed as to form a "hollow continent" with most of the population concentrated around the margins of the continent. [ 73 ] On one hand, there are several sparsely populated areas such as tropical forests , the Atacama Desert and the icy portions of Patagonia .
South American people by ethnicity (5 C) A. Ethnic groups in Argentina (13 C, 31 P) Aymara (3 C, 10 P) B. ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in South America"
21st-century South American people by nationality (13 C) A. Argentine people (37 C, 4 P) B. Bolivian people (22 C, 1 P) Brazilian people (34 C, 2 P) C. Chilean people ...
Benito Juárez was an Amerindian Mexican of Zapotec ancestry.. Latin America's population is composed of a diverse mix of ancestries and ethnic groups, including Indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, Asians, and those of mixed heritage, making it one of the most ethnically diverse regions globally. [1]
South America is home to 400 million people, of which 180 million is composed of Whites with several different European extractions, as well as people with other lineages including 17 million Levantine Arabs, mostly Christians from the Levant region, (found in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia and Chile), 440 thousand Ashkenazi and ...
In 1930 Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro became the first Peruvian President with Indigenous Peruvian ancestry and the first in South America. [300] He came to power in a military coup. In 2005, Evo Morales of the Aymara people was the first Indigenous candidate elected as president of Bolivia and the first elected in South America. [301]