Check Out Some Interesting Facts: :bulletblue: South America is made up of 19 countires :bulletblue: The highest point in South America is Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes Mountains in the country of Argentina. :bulletblue: The largest South American country in both size and population is Brazil. The largest city is Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is also one of the ten largest cities in the world. :bulletblue: North and South America were named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. :bulletblue: The highest waterfall in the world is Santo del Angel (also called Angel Falls). It is almost 1000 meters high! :bulletblue: There are 80 different indigenous nations in Colombia, speaking 180 languages. :bulletblue: Brazil produces the most coffee annually in the world; Colombia is second, providing 12 percent of the world’s coffee. :bulletblue: An English movie produced by a British director Alan William Parker, "Evita", was based on the life of the first lady of Argentina, Maria Eva Duarte de Peron. :bulletblue: argest river (by volume): Amazon river at 4,087 miles. The Amazon is visible from space. :bulletblue: The Amazon rainforest, world's largest remaining natural resource, represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth. :bulletblue: The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground. :bulletblue: 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.