SOUTH AMERICA
South America is the fourth largest continent by area, stretching from the Caribbean coast in the north to Cape Horn at its southern tip, where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans converge. It contains the Amazon Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest and river system by volume; the Andes, the longest continental mountain range on earth; and a geographic and ecological range that encompasses everything from hyper-arid desert to equatorial rainforest to sub-Antarctic steppe.
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