Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent.

From the soaring mountains of the Andes to the Pampas of Argentina, from the indigenous Indian population to the descendants of European colonists, South America’s diversity includes geography ...

Nelson’s father, who was a geography professor at Central ... Greenland appears to be similar in size to all of South America on Mercator maps, when in fact South America is more than eight ...

Brazil has launched a new world map ... the South American nation at the center of the world, challenging traditional Eurocentric perspectives. Released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography ...

Visit the Charting Change website to read Building better borders in Latin America. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society acknowledges that its offices are located on the unceded territory of the ...