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February 13, 2006

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Most of it is in the Southern Hemisphere.
Commonly referred to as part of the Americas, like North America, South America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a previously undiscovered New World.
South America has an area of 17,820,000 km² (6,880,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface (Wikipedia).
South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering Strait, though there are also suggestions of migration from the southern Pacific Ocean (Wikipedia).
In 1494, Portugal and Spain, the two great maritime powers of that time, on the expectation of new lands being discovered in the west, signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, by which they agreed that all the land outside......

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