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Andes Mountains
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The world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America.
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Mexican Plateau
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A large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico.
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Brazilian Highlands
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An extensive geographical region, covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all approximately half of the country's land area
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Amazon River
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The second longest in the world and by far the largest by waterflow with an average discharge greater than the next seven largest rivers combined
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Rio de la Plata
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The muddy estuary of the Paraná and Uruguay Rivers, and forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay
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Amazon Basin
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The part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries that drains an area of about 6,915,000 square kilometres (2,670,000 sq mi), or roughly 40 percent of South America.
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Atacama Desert
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a plateau in South America, covering a 600-mile (1000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.
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