The document provides an overview of the regions of South America, including the Northern Tropics of French Guiana, Suriname, and Guyana as well as countries like Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and the Andean Countries. Key details include French Guiana being an overseas department of France, Suriname being a former Dutch colony, Guyana having English as its official language, Venezuela having a communist leader Hugo Chavez and oil as a major export, and Colombia producing coffee, cocoa, and cocaine while having a population that largely lives in the mountain valleys.

1. Regions:
SOUTH
Brazil
Northern Tropics
Andean Countries
Southern Grasslands
AMERICA

2. The Northern Tropics - French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas
department of France
French is the official
Language
Population:
30% Asian
10% African
Capital - Cayenne 50% Mulattoes

3. The Northern Tropics - Suriname
Capital - Paramaribo
Colony of the
Netherlands until
1975
Dutch is official
language
Population
50% Asian
10% African
30% Mulattoes

4. The Northern Tropics - Guyana
Capital - Georgetown
Official
Language is
English
Population
50%
Asian Indian
43%
of African
Descent

5. Venezuela
Hugo Chavez - Communist Leader

6. V Population
e 24 Million
n Mestizo & European
e Descent
z Official
u Language
e Spanish
l
a Roman Catholic
Capital - Caracas
Angel Falls
Highest
Waterfall
in the
World

7. Physical Regions of Venezuela
Andean Highlands
Guiana Highlands
Tropical Grasslands
(llanos and Orinoco River)

8. Venezuela Economy - OIL!!!
an OPEC Nation
One of 10 largest oil producing nations in
the world
Also produces Bauxite and Iron

9. Colombia
named after
Christopher Columbus

10. Colombia
Population
40 million
2nd most populated
country in South
America
70% of the population
lives in the valley
between the
Cordilleras (mountain
Capital City - Bogota ranges)
Only Country to border
both the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans

11. Colombia
Coffee, Cocoa and Cocaine
Colombia is 2nd only to Brazil in
Coffee exports in South America
Coffee is grown on small farms (more
than 300,000) rented to tenant farmers
by wealthy landowners Cocoa is also grown in the jungles and on the hillsides.
Cocoa is used in chocolate and also supplies the cocaine
Coffee is the legal single cash crop in trade.
Colombia, putting the country at risk if
the worldwide price for coffee drops Authorities estimate that smuggling cocaine brings in twice
or if coffee trees are devastated. as much money as coffee