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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 ...
Latin America refers to a cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily in the form of Spanish and Portuguese (excluding Azores islands), and to a lesser extent, Italian dialects, French (excluding Quebec) and its creoles. There is no precise or official inclusion list.
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 region has over 670,230,000 people as of 2016, [citation needed] and spanned for 21,951,000 square ...
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).
Map of the Latin American countries by Human Development Index in 2021. The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. It is a standard means of measuring well-being.
LATAM: Latin America; LATCAR: Latin America and Caribbean [12] Levant: Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria; Lublin Triangle: Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine (Union of Lublin created the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) Lusofonia: an international organization representing countries and regions where Portuguese is a lingua franca or ...
This is a list of Latin American countries and dependent territories by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
The most common demarcation in atlases and other sources follows the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [2]