The first of three maps “visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs.

Running through the rainforest in the northern portion of South America is the Amazon river. Although it’s disputed if the Amazon is the longest river in the world, it does carry more water than ...

Severe drought conditions and unusually high temperatures have caused the shoreline to shrivel at Titicaca, South America's largest lake and the world's highest navigable body of water.

The Paraná river is at its lowest level since 1944 The water levels of the Paraná river, the second-longest in South America after the Amazon, are at their lowest since 1944. The river is key to ...

Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing ... marked with a deep red color on a NOAA map. The drought covers large parts of the Amazon rainforest ...

"We have available power, what we don't have is water to sustain that power for ... that can bring both heavy rains and drought to South America and elsewhere. But relief does not seem to be ...

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.