Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Maps of the Americas.. Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of North America. Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of South America.
Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for South America [68] All of the world's major climate zones are present in South America. [69] The distribution of the average temperatures in the region presents a constant regularity from the 30° of latitude south, when the isotherms tend, more and more, to be confused with the degrees of latitude ...
The geography of South America contains many diverse regions and climates. Geographically, South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the landmass of the Americas, south and east of the Colombia–Panama border by most authorities, or south and east of the Panama Canal by some.
"Map of South America from Stielers Hand Atlas - 1889. This map, partially reproduced here, corresponds to the plate of South America in the 1889 edition of the well known Stieler Atlases published by Justus Perthes in Gotha. This german cartography establishment was one of the foremost of its time in Europe.
English: Map of South America showing physical, political and population characteristics, in Mercator projection, with legend, as per 2018. Compiled using QGIS and CC-0 Natural Earth geodata. Compiled using QGIS and CC-0 Natural Earth geodata.
The gaps in the archipelago of Central America filled in with material eroded off North America and South America, plus new land created by continued volcanism. By three million years ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the Isthmus of Panama, thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas. [77]
The border between North America and South America is at some point on 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. [116] [117]
Angel Falls was used as a setting for a scene in the action film Point Break (2015); actors Edgar Ramirez and Luke Bracey free-climb the Falls. [23] [24] In the film narrated by Lowell Thomas, Seven Wonders of the World (1956), Angel Falls was included as one of the seven wonders. [25] The 1990 film Arachnophobia was partly set at Angel Falls. [26]