Argentina covers an area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), making it the largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world. It is the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. Is Argentina the biggest country? The statistic shows the largest countries in South […]

Chile was the most expensive country of our trip, with daily living costs of $76.65. This is almost double our daily costs in the cheapest country we visited, Paraguay. Note that even if we remove the W Trek costs from our daily spending in Chile and recalculate, it still remains the highest at $73.49 per […]

Visiting Playa Flamingo You won’t find a large population of flamingos here. Rather, the right weather conditions have been known to turn the sand a beautiful but subtle shade of pink. Located at only an hour from Liberia’s international airport, Playa Flamingo is part of the Guanacaste province. Is Playa Flamingo worth visiting? The Beach […]

Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of instant coffee, with instant coffee constituting 10–20% of total coffee exports. What is the biggest export from Brazil? In 2019, Brazil most exported products were soybean and crude oil or bituminous mineral oils, reaching an export value of 26.1 billion U.S. dollars and 24.2 billion dollars, respectively. Iron […]

Families in rural areas live in more traditional homes made from available materials. In the Andes, most homes are of stone. In the Selva, wood or reeds have been used as building materials for hundreds of years.This is a typical family home along a river in the Selva of Northeastern Peru. What are Peru homes […]

Its economy shrank nearly 10 percent in 2020, the third straight year of recession. The pandemic has accelerated an exodus of foreign investment, which has pushed down the value of the Argentine peso. That has increased the costs of imports like food and fertilizer, and kept the inflation rate above 40 percent. What ruined Argentina’s […]

In school, you may have studied the Incas, a group of people who lived in Peru starting around 1400. They are known for a city called Machu Picchu. The Peruvians highlighted in this exhibit came before the Incas and lived starting around 1000 B.C., or about 3,000 years ago. What ancient civilizations lived in Peru? […]

Clearly there is much to learn about Ecuador’s geography! Ecuador can be divided into three types of terrain, namely: the Sierra, which is the central highlands, the jungles of the Oriente and the coastal plains, which are known as the Costa.has extremely fertile plains, basins and breathtaking valleys. What type of land is Ecuador? Most […]

Visas. U.S. and Canadian citizens require a visa to enter Brazil as a tourist.Citizens of the U.K. and most of Europe (and many other countries) do not require a visa, and can enter Brazil with just a passport. Whether or not you need a visa, you can stay in Brazil for up to six months […]

Argentinian or Argentinean: Decisions, decisions…Demonym – a type of noun to describe someone from Argentina. An Argentine, an Argentinian, an Argentinean. This is the demonym or gentilic. How do you call a person from Argentina? Argentines (also known as Argentinians or Argentineans; in Spanish argentinos (masculine) or argentinas (feminine) are people identified with the country […]

Celebration Observance This is a day of mourning. Christians can attend a special service and pray. In some areas there are re-enactments of the Crucifixion. This is a national holiday with most government and businesses closed. How do they celebrate Easter in Venezuela? Venezuelans traditionally celebrate Easter in a big way, and public holidays are […]

Today, Brazil and Portugal share a privileged relationship, as evidenced in aligned political and diplomatic coordination, as well as economic, social, cultural, legal, technical and scientific cooperation. Is Brazil influenced by Portugal? The cultures of the indigenous Indians, Africans, and Portuguese have together formed the modern Brazilian way of life.The Portuguese culture is by far […]

Central America is not a continent.Central America is embedded in a tectonic plate, but both the landmass and the plate are much smaller than those of the continents it bridges, North America and South America, so it is not considered to be a continent. Was Central America ever a continent? Central America is not a […]

Uruguay’s main agricultural products are indigenous cattle meat, whole fresh cow milk, paddy rice, wheat, soybeans, grapes, greasy wool, indigenous chicken meat, indigenous sheep meat, sunflower seed. There are 759,000 hectares of organic land in Uruguay and approximately 500 organic farms operating in the country. What are the top 3 exports of Uruguay? The country […]