Peru

Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival of the Inca people, reveres Inti – the sun deity. Offerings include round bread and maize beer.

Bolivia

The La Paz cable car system in Bolivia is home to both the longest and highest urban cable car network in the world.

South America

Rafael Correa, Evo Morales, Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Nicanor Duarte, and Hugo Chávez signed the founding charter of the Bank of the South.

South America

Official languages in South America

Chile

The Chilean Army in the battlefield of the Battle of Chorrillos, 1883

South America

Woodcut depicting Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's first voyage (1497-98) to the New World, from the first known published edition of Vespucci's 1504 letter to Piero Soderini.

Colombia

Bath in Zetaquira - Boyacá - Colombia

Carmen Miranda, Portuguese Brazilian singer helped popularize samba internationally.

Rio de Janeiro

Scheme for geographic regions and subregions used by the United Nations Statistics Division.

Imperial Brazilian Navy and army troops during the Siege of Paysandú, 1865

The Portuguese arrival in Brazil on 22 April 1500 was led by Pedro Álvares Cabral.