the amazon basin
101Military history of South America — The Battle of Chacabuco, 1817, during the Chilean War of Independence, a war often fought across harsh and difficult terrain. The military history of South America can be divided into two major periods pre and post Columbian divided by the… …
102Pongo de Manseriche — The Pongo de Manseriche is a gorge in northwest Peru. The Marañón River runs through this gorge before it reaches the Amazon Basin.The Pongo de Manseriche is 3 miles (4.8 km) long, located at 4° 27 30 south latitude and 77° 34 51 west longitude,… …
103Antofagasta Region — The II Antofagasta Region ( es. II Región de Antofagasta) is one of Chile s 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is the port city of Antofagasta. It comprises three provinces, Antofagasta, El Loa and Tocopilla, It is bordered to… …
104Great American Interchange — The Great American Interchange was an important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America via Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea… …
105Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs — The Office of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs was a United States agency promoting inter American cooperation during the 1940s, especially in commercial and economic areas. It was started in August 1940 as OCCCRBAR (Office for… …
106Jatun Sacha Foundation — The Jatun Sacha Foundation is a private Ecuadorian Non profit NGO (nongovernmental organisation) founded in 1985.The purpose of this organisation is outlined on its website as:: Foundation Jatun Sacha is dedicated to the conservation,… …
107Panará — The Panará are an Indigenous people of the Pará and Mato Grosso states in the Brazilian Amazon. They were formerly called the Kreen Akrore .The Panará lived in relative isolation until 1973 when a government road project (Cuiabá Santarém) through …
108Macuna — The Macuna are a Tucanoan speaking group of the eastern part of the Amazon basin, located around the confluence of the Pirá Paraná and Apaporis rivers, in the Colombian Vaupés Department and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. There are no reliable… …
109Abuna River — The Abuna River ( es. Río Abuná, pt. Rio Abunã) is a river in South America. As a part of the Amazon Basin, it forms part of the border between northern Bolivia and north western Brazil.The river has a total length of convert|375|km. It is rising …
110Jari River — The Jari River, is a northern tributary of the Amazon river on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in northeastern Brazil. It is in the most downstream regions of the Amazon Basin and borders the Guiana Highlands and the Guianas and… …
