2.  Population: 9,947,418 people
 Population Density: 21 people per square
mile
“CIA - The World Factbook.”
“Boehm, Richard G.” pg184

3.  Andes Mountains
- The worlds longest mountain range
- Stretch along the Pacific coast of South
America (5,500miles) pg.193
 Amazon Basin
- One of South America’s major landform
- Holds the worlds largest rain forest
- Amazon.com: Exploring Our World pg.

4.  Date of Independence :
August 6th 1825 ( from Spain)
 Government type:
Republic
CIA - The World Factbook."

5.  95% Roman Catholic
 5% Protestant
 CIA - The World Factbook."

6.  18-49 years of age for a 12 month compulsory service
 Boys as young as 14
 15-19 years of age for voluntary premilitary
 Male: 108,336
 Female: 104,934
 "CIA - The World Factbook."

7.  GDP per capita : $4,700
 Natural Resources: natural gas, soybeans
and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore,
tin
 "CIA - The World Factbook."

8.  Death rate: 6.95 deaths/ 1,000 people
 Birth Rate: 25.16 births/1,000 people
 Literacy Rate: 86.7% total, 80.7% female, 93.1%
male
 Languages: 60.7% Spanish, 21.2% Quechua,
14.6% Aymara, 2.4% foreign languages, 1.2%
other
 "CIA - The World Factbook."

9. "CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the
CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency.
Web. 03 Dec. 2010.
<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-
world-factbook/geos/bl.html>.
 Boehm, Richard G., David G. Armstrong,
Francis P. Hunkins, and Dinah Zike. Exploring
Our World: People, Places, and Cultures. New
York, NY: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2008.