caribbean south america, colombia, venezuela and guianas

8/2/2019 Caribbean South America, Colombia, Venezuela and Guianas

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Physical Features

Most of the region has warm tem-peratures year-round becauseCaribbean South America`s loca-tion near the equator line how-ever the temperature vary whit

the elevation

Caribbean South America

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Llanos

Riverssystems

Ruggedmountains

PhysicalFeatures

Largestlake

Plains

Highlands

Content

Caribbean south Amer-

ica: Physical Features

and climate.

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Vegetation and 2

Colombia: Chibcha

and Spanish con-

quest.

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Colombia today: 4

influences 5

Economy 6

Civil war 7Colombia after and

Before the Spanish:

conquest language

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religion 9

Culture 10

Venezuela history 11

Venezuela after and

Before the Spanish:

economy

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Goverment 13

Guianas: Guyana 14

French Guyana and Suri-name

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Climate:


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The Caribbean SouthAmerica`s vegetationhad rain forests,huge trees and hererain falls throughoutthe year the vegeta-tion is so dense

Vegetation:

Resources:The major resource isthe oil but CaribbeanSouth America is a richagriculture region andthe major crops are rice,

coffee, bananas andsugarcane

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The legend of the El Dorado

is about a land rich in goldwas inspired by the Chibchaculture in Colombia. The Chib-cha covered the new rulers ingold dust . Then they tookeach ruler to a lake to washthe gold off. As the new rulerwashed, the Chibcha threw

gold and emerald objects in tothe water

Colombia:

Spanish conquest :

In about 1500 Spanish ex-plorers arrived on the Carib-bean coast of South America.

The Spaniards wanted to ex-pand Spain`s new empire.

The Spanish conquered theChibcha and catch most oftheir gold.

One colonial city , Cartagena,was a major naval base and

commercial port in the Span-ish empire.

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The Chibcha


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Colombia Today

Colombia is Caribbean South America`s most

populous country. The national capital is Bogota.

People:The most people in Colombia live in the fertile val-leys and river basins among the mountain ranges,


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Culture:Colombian culture is an interesting mix of influences:

Influences

Music Sports Religion Language

Had influ-ences from;

Africa,Caribbeancoast and

remote ar-eas of theAndes.

Soccer, aswell as tra-

ditionalChibcharig-toss

gamecalled

PrimarilyRomanCatholi-

cism.

The offi-cial lan-guage isSpanish.


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Economy:

Colombias economy relies on several valuable re-sources. Rich soil, steep slopes, and tall shade treesproduce world-famous Colombian coffee. othersresources are:

resourses

Agricultural Natural

Bananas ,sugarcane

and cotton

Iron, goldand coal


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Civil war:

Civil War is the major problem in Colombia, thereare many groups the guerrillas are a irregular mili-tary force, but the most important and dangerousis Las FARC They are the opposite of the gov-ernment and the base of their economy is the pro-duction and the exportation of Cocaine, a danger-ous drug..


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*They spoketheir nativelanguages.

*They wrotewith

symbols.

*They need away for com-munication.

*They speakSpanish

*They useletters forwrite..

Colombia After and Before the conquest

Before:Similar:

After:

Language:


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*They hadmany gods.

*They didsacrifices

*They belief insomething orsomeone

*They be-lieve in agod.

*They havethe bible.

Before:Similar:

After:

Religion:


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*In Colombialived theChibcha cul-ture.

*They had arace.

* Theyhad a gov-ernment.

*Peoplemixed andappeared themestizos*Lost theirculture.

After:

Similar:

Before:

Culture:


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After:Similar:Before:

*They used thebarter in order to

interchange theircrops.

*The base ofeconomy was

the agriculture

they use away for in-terchangingtheir crops

*People usemoney forpaying*The base ofeconomy werethe oil.

Venezuela Before and After the Spanishconquest

Economy:


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After:Similar:

Before:*They were gov-

erned by a Kingor a emperor.*the peoplework for theking or the

emperor.

*they are gov-erned by apresident.* the Peoplepay taxes

People havehad a personwho controlthe country

Government:


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The GuianasThe countries of Guyana, Suriname and FrenchGuiana are together known as the Guianas .

Guyana:Guyana comes from a South American Indian wordthat means land of waters. Guyana most importantagricultural products are rice and sugar.The population is diverse. About half of this people

are descended from people who migrated to Guyanafrom India, one third of the population is descended


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Suriname:The recourses and economy of Suriname arethe same of the Guyana.

The countrys population includes SouthAsians, Africans, Chinese, Indonesians andCreoles.The capital is Paramaribo.

French Guiana:

It is a territory of France and send representa-tives to the government in Paris 190000 peopleof French Guiana live mostly in costal areas.

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