South America: History & Heritage Quiz

Cartagena, Colombia is correct. Spanish treasure fleets made it an important and heavily fortified colonial harbor.

Galápagos Islands, Ecuador is correct. Charles Darwin’s 1835 visit contributed to ideas later developed in evolution by natural selection.

Atacama Desert, Chile is correct. Ancient caravan routes and later nitrate mining shaped settlement across the desert.

Patagonia, Argentina & Chile is correct. Indigenous peoples and later ranching communities adapted to the remote landscape.

Iguazú Falls, Argentina & Brazil is correct. The surrounding parks were created to protect both the waterfalls and rare forest habitat.

Amazon & Manaus, Brazil is correct. The nineteenth-century rubber boom produced sudden wealth and monumental buildings.

Lima, Peru is correct. Francisco Pizarro founded the Spanish city in 1535 as the City of Kings.

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia is correct. It formed from prehistoric lakes that evaporated across the Altiplano.

Quito, Ecuador is correct. It became one of the first places inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1978.

Santiago, Chile is correct. It was founded in 1541 and later became the center of Chilean independence.

Medellín, Colombia is correct. Major civic investment helped transform areas once defined by late twentieth-century violence.

Montevideo, Uruguay is correct. It developed as a Spanish fortified port that rivaled nearby Buenos Aires.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is correct. The city served as Brazil’s capital from 1763 until 1960.

Buenos Aires, Argentina is correct. The May Revolution of 1810 began in the city and advanced Argentine independence.

Cusco & Machu Picchu, Peru is correct. Cusco was the capital of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest.