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Mapa de Colombia, denotando sus límites y su división administrativa. Para el presente mapa se han tenido en cuenta el trazado y nombre de los ríos principales, las fronteras internacionales con sus respectivos hitos y coordenadas fronterizas, accidentes geográficos, e islas importantes en ambos océanos.
Since the 1950s, [17] however, North America and South America have generally been considered by English speakers as separate continents, and taken together are called the Americas, or more rarely America. [18] [19] [3] When conceived as a unitary continent, the form is generally the continent of America in the singular.
Abya Yala (from the Kuna language: 'Abiayala', meaning "mature land" [1]) is used by some indigenous peoples of the Americas to refer to the Americas. [2] The term is used by some indigenous organisations, institutions, and movements as a symbol of identity and respect for the land one inhabits. [3]
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
The point of America, from now on, forever, insistently points to the South, our north." [ 2 ] Critics have interpreted the image as a sociopolitical artistic work that was intended to counter US cultural imperialism and other cartographic and cultural norms rooted in the European colonization of the Americas .
In ''The Myth of Continents,'' Lewis and Wigen have written an entertaining and informative account of the way our maps show us the world that we want to see. [ 5 ] Denis Cosgrove considered the book a serious and well-researched scholarly work that challenges conventional spatial divisions like continents and argues that they are arbitrary and ...
Ibero-America makes up the overwhelming bulk of and is synonymous with the common definition of Latin America, but is differentiated from the expanded definition of Latin America by the exclusion of the French-speaking country of Haiti, the French overseas departments of French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe, and the French collectivities of ...
The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.