Traveling Tales  Fabric by Tom Smallwood  Doors by Tom Smallwood  Sao Paulo Carnaval |
A man was sleeping under a pear tree, when suddenly a snake came. A pear fell waking him. He killed the snake and ate the pear.
- Argentine Proverb |
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Region Overview | |
| South America
is the forth largest continent with a total land area of about
6,880,000 square miles.
Population
is 350 million with a 1.6 rate of natural increase.
Languages
number more than 1,000, most of which are Native American languages,
including Quechua of the Andean region; the predonimant language in most
countries is Spanish while Portuguese is the official language of Brazil.
Economies
have developed heavy industries to supplement pre-WWII light industries;
subsistance farming remains substantial with 30% of the population
farming 15% of the land.
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