South America Travel Challenge

Brazil occupies nearly half of South America.

The Inca built Machu Picchu in the fifteenth century.

Northern Chile contains the hyper-arid core of the Atacama.

Patagonia spans southern Argentina and Chile.

Ecuador administers the Galápagos, around 1,000 kilometers offshore.

The Amazon has the greatest discharge volume of any river.

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat.

Cartagena’s walled old city lies on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.

The waterfalls sit on the Argentina–Brazil border.

Montevideo faces the Río de la Plata on Uruguay’s southern coast.

Quito is Ecuador’s high-altitude Andean capital.

Angel Falls plunges from Auyán-tepui in Venezuela.

Brazil is the largest Portuguese-speaking country.

The Andes form a vast mountain chain along the continent’s western edge.

Colombia reaches the Caribbean in the north and Pacific in the west.