GEOG 1001 Chapter : Latin America
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Other ways to split the region: south america: countries from panama south to tierra delfuego, central america: countries from guatemala and belize south to. Colombia (does not include mexico: middle america central america, mexico, and caribbean, caribbean- island nations and countries, find extra notes. Climate: temperature altitude zones, tierra caliente, hot tropical rain forest thrives; up to 3000 feet. Bananas sugar canes: tierra remplada, year round spring like climate, 3000-6500 feet. Large scale forest clearing regional climate change: maya housing in yucatan, they are not extinct, we are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. The colonial experience: around 1509 the caribbean looses interest and it switches to the mainland, iberian conquest and division, treaty of tordesillas- pope drew n/s line 370 leagues w of. Spain lands w: demographic collapse, rapid die off of indigenous populations of the americas, turn to slave labor from africa, diseases introduced by europeans, no immunity.
