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Nature Attractions In South America

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South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas, which is how it is viewed in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas. The reference to South America instead of other regions has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics .It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. It includes twelve sovereign states , a part of France , and a non-sovereign ...
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Nature Attractions In South America

  • 1. Parque Nacional Talampaya Villa Union
    Talampaya National Park is a national park located in the east/centre of La Rioja Province, Argentina. It was designated a provincial reserve in 1975, a national park in 1997, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
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  • 2. El Cajas National Park Cuenca
    El Cajas National Park or Cajas National Park is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador. It is located about 30 km west from Cuenca, the capital of the province of Azuay. The area of 285.44 km2 between 3100m and 4450m above sea level offers a tundra vegetation on a jagged landscape of hills and valleys. It was declared a National Park on November 5, 1996 by resolution N° 057.
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  • 3. Copacabana Beach Rio De Janeiro
    Copacabana is a bairro located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is known for its 4 km balneario beach, which is one of the most famous in the world.
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  • 4. Playa El Yaque Margarita Island
    Playa El Yaque is internationally known as one of the seven best locations in the world having ideal conditions for windsurfing and kitesurfing, attracting enthusiasts from all over the world, especially from Europe. It displays a row of hotels, shops and restaurants close to the beachfront, featuring a wide range of facilities and sport gear.
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  • 5. Parque Nacional Lauca Arica
    Lauca National Park is located in Chile's far north, in the Andean range. It encompasses an area of 1,379 km2 of altiplano and mountains, the latter consisting mainly of enormous volcanoes. Las Vicuñas National Reserve is its neighbour to the south. Both protected areas, along with Salar de Surire Natural Monument, form Lauca Biosphere Reserve. The park borders Sajama National Park in Bolivia.
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  • 6. Meeting of Waters Manaus
    The Meeting of Waters is the confluence between the dark Rio Negro and the pale sandy-colored Amazon River or Rio Solimões, as the upper section of the Amazon is known in Brazil upriver of this confluence. For 6 km the two rivers' waters run side by side without mixing. It is one of the main tourist attractions of Manaus, Brazil. The same also happens near Santarém, Pará with the Amazon and Tapajós rivers. This phenomenon occurs in other regions of the world with differing characters of rivers, the phenomenon is also seen in other locations in the Amazon region, as Iquitos, Peru. This phenomenon is due to the differences in temperature, speed and water density of the two rivers. The Rio Negro flows at near 2 km/h at a temperature of 28 °C , while the Rio Solimões flows between 4 and ...
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  • 7. Taquile Island Puno
    Taquile is an island on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca 45 km offshore from the city of Puno. About 2,200 people live on the island, which is 5.5 by 1.6 kilometres in size , with an area of 5.72 km2 . The highest point of the island is 4,050 metres above sea level and the main village is at 3,950 metres . The inhabitants, known as Taquileños, speak Puno Quechua. In 2005, Taquile and Its Textile Art were honored by being proclaimed Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
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  • 8. Rio Sao Francisco Petrolina
    The São Francisco River or Rio São Francisco is a river in Brazil. With a length of 2,914 kilometres , it is the longest river that runs entirely in Brazilian territory, and the fourth longest in South America and overall in Brazil . It used to be known as the Opara by the indigenous people before colonisation, and is today also known as Velho Chico .The São Francisco originates in the Canastra mountain range in the central-western part of the state of Minas Gerais. It runs generally north in the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, behind the coastal range, draining an area of over 630,000 square kilometres , before turning east to form the border between Bahia on the right bank and the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas on the left one. After that, it forms the boundary between the states ...
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  • 9. Parque Nacional Sierra de las Quijadas San Luis
    The Sierra de las Quijadas National Park is a national park located in the northwestern part of the Argentine province of San Luis. It was established on December 10, 1991, to protect the natural features, representative of the Semiarid Chaco and the Argentine Low Monte ecoregions.
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  • 10. San Cristóbal Hill Santiago
    Cerro San Cristóbal is a hill in northern Santiago, Chile. It rises 850 m AMSL and about 300 m above the rest of Santiago; the peak is the second highest point in the city, after Cerro Renca. Cerro San Cristóbal was named by the Spanish conquistadors for St Christopher, in recognition of its use as a landmark. Its original indigenous name is Tupahue.
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  • 11. Parque Oncol Valdivia
    Oncol Park is a natural reserve located 32 km from the city of Valdivia, Chile. The park has an area of 7.54 km2 of which most lies on Cerro Oncol , the highest peak of the Valdivian Coast Range, but is only 5 km from the coast. Oncol Park is located in an area of 15 km2 of continuous Valdivian temperate rain forest. From the peak of Cerro Oncol it is possible to see Llaima Volcano, Villarrica Volcano and even Mount Tronador on the international border of Chile and Argentina. The park is property of the wood pulp enterprise Celulosa Arauco y Constitución.
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  • 12. Parque Portugal Campinas
    Parque Portugal, also known as Lagoa do Taquaral , is an urban public park in the city of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. It has been set around a beautiful lagoon and adjacent wooded park, and is a large municipal entertainment and sports park, with a planetarium, a science museum, an indoor sports stadium and swimming pool, kart racing and model airplane areas, an open concert auditorium, floating caravel replica, a working historical tramway, pedalos, facilities for several types of sports, including a long track for running, cycling and walking, restaurants, etc. Taquaral means bamboo grove in Portuguese, probably because the lagoon was originally rimmed with this kind of plant . The name Portugal was given as a homage to the discoverers and immigrants of Brazil, the Portuguese people. T...
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  • 13. Biribiri State Park Diamantina
    The Biribiri State Park is a state park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It protects a mountainous region of cerrado. The park contains an abandoned village, once home to workers in a textile factory, which is now a tourist attraction.
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  • 14. Parque das Aves Foz Do Iguacu
    The Parque das Aves is a privately owned zoo situated in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná State, Brazil, and it is near to Iguaçu Falls. Its exhibits comprise mainly birds as well as o animals and butterflies. The park was opened in 1994 and it is set within 16 hectares of forest.
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  • 15. Morro Branco Fortaleza
    Morro Reuter is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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