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Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native: "the indigenous peoples of Siberia".
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Indigenous
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Yucatan: a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.
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Yucatan Peninsula
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Tenochtitlan (Tenōchtitlān|tenoːtʃˈtitɬaːn) (sometimes paired with Mexico as Mexico Tenochtitlan
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Tenochtitlan
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The capital of Mexico, in the south central part of the city; pop. 13,636,000.
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Mexico City
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The area near or surrounding a particular place.
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Viceny
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A conqueror, esp. one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
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Conquistador
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A country in the western West Indies.
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Cuba
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A country in the Caribbean Sea
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Dominician Republic
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A chain of islands that extends from the Florida peninsula to the coast of Venezuela and lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic
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West Indies
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An island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, divided into the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Hispanola
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A wide-brimmed hat of strawlike material, originally made from the leaves of a particular tropical palm tree, worn chiefly by men.
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Panama
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A country in the West Indies.
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Haiti
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An island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea; pop. 3,808,610; capital, San Juan.
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Puerto Rico
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The capital city and chief port of Argentina, in the eastern central part of the country, on the Plata River
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Buenos Aries
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an ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in South America.
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Sao Paulo
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A state in eastern Brazil, on the Atlantic coast.
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Rio de Jineiro
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