Jordan+Doherty+Region

__**//Region//**__

> Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
 * ====**__//Number of countries//__:** 13====
 * **__//Countries included in the South America Region//__:**
 * **//__Population__//:** 371,045,000
 * __**South America Climate:**__
 * South America Climate is predominantly wet and hot. However the large size of the cotinent makes the climate of South America varied with each having its own charaterisic weather conditions.
 * //**__Landforms In South America__:**//
 * The Andes Mountains
 * Atacama Desert
 * Amazon Rain Forest
 * Guiana Highlands
 * Brazilian Highlands
 * Pampas Grass
 * Patagonia
 * Gran Chaco
 * The Amazon Basin (Amazonia) is covered by the largest tropical rain forest in the world, and running through its heart is the Amazon River, and its more than 1,000 tributaries, seven of them more than 1,000 miles in length.Measurable rain falls on anaverage of 200 days a year, and total rainfall often.
 * __//**Interesting Facts About South America**//__
 * South America was named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
 * Many of the most important discoveries of dinosaur fossils in the last 30 years were made in South America.
 * **driest place on Earth**:Atacama Desert