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In 1505 his career on ships ended because he began work in Spain as a consultant. His name was immortalized by German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller, in 1507 who used the word "America" on a map of the new continent. In 1508, he became the chief navigator overseeing voyages and compiling data into maps for Spain.
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in South America by area. [1] Brazil is the largest country in South America while Suriname is the smallest. Panama is not regarded as a transcontinental country but the country is sometimes included in South America due to being part of Colombia prior to its secession in 1903.
The terminator is visible in this panoramic view across central South America. 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 ...
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.
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
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Seville's climate is a very hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa), featuring very hot, long, dry summers and mild winters with moderate rainfall. [77] Seville has an annual average temperature of 19.6 °C (67 °F). The annual average temperature is 25.7 °C (78 °F) during the day and 13.3 °C (56 °F) at night. [78]
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