With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent.

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South ... America that the Equator passes through. Use maps and atlases, as well as aerial imagery, to find and talk about major features ...

SOUTH AMERICA offers great scope ... with due emphasis on the physical and climatic background, which explains much of the economic geography of the South American republics.

THERE has long been need for a text-book on South American economic geography ... experience of South America and a wide outlook, has largely supplied the want. The physical background is merely ...