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  • Sucre, Bolivia - The City with Four NamesUpdated: 2008-08-29 @ 02:01:14 GMT
    Called the City with Four Names, Sucre is the second capital of Bolivia, home to the Bolivian Supreme Court, a colonial heritage city with one of the oldest universities in the Americas, intriguing…
  • The Pantanal and the EnvironmentUpdated: 2008-08-29 @ 02:01:09 GMT
    The Pantanal is a huge wilderness region of swamps and marshes - wetlands created by the seasonal flooding of the river Paraguai and its many tributaries. It's the site of the popular annual Intern…
  • 2008 Earthquake Count in South American Area - August to OctoberCreated: 2008-08-24 @ 15:34:43 GMT
    Earthquake Count in South American Area includes the South American continent, the Caribbean and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans nearest the continent, with magnitude, location and date for earthqu…
  • South America for Visitors - Photo of the Week - ArchivesUpdated: 2008-08-24 @ 13:00:05 GMT
    Enjoy these views of South America in these weekly highlighted photos…
  • South America for Visitors - Photo of the Week - 08/24/2008Created: 2008-08-23 @ 18:43:03 GMT
    On a high plateau known as the pampa of San Jose, a tribal group once used the sixty miles long and five miles wide coastal plain to draw long, intricate lines on the desert floor. Pre-dating the I…
  • South America for VisitorsUpdated: 2008-08-15 @ 23:33:29 GMT
    South America for Visitors site offers travel planning, vacation tours, pictures, maps, sighsteeing, hotels, favored destinations, culture, weather, recipes, languages, and information about South …
  • South America for Visitors - Photo of the Week - 08/17/2008Created: 2008-08-14 @ 18:50:30 GMT
    Machu Picchu is the most visited tourist destination in Peru, with good reason. The ruins stand atop a steep mountain overlooking the Urubamba river far below, with Huayna Picchu overlooking the ce…
  • South America for Visitors - Photo of the Week - 08/10/2008Updated: 2008-08-07 @ 23:36:36 GMT
    With snow clad mountain peaks and the deep blue of the highest navigable lake in the world, it's not hard to understand why the ancients considered the lake the birthplace of the sun. They believed…
  • 2008 Earthquake Count in South American Area - late May to AugustUpdated: 2008-08-03 @ 17:36:49 GMT
    Earthquake Count in South American Area includes the South American continent, the Caribbean and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans nearest the continent, with magnitude, location and date for earthqu…
  • South America for Visitors - Photo of the Week - 08/03/2008Created: 2008-08-01 @ 18:00:36 GMT
    Every inch of space is colored and decorated in the La Boca barrio, or neighborhood, of Buenos Aires. This working class barrio grew up on the bank of the Riachuelo, a narrow canal where meat p…
  • Pictures of Argentina Photo GalleryUpdated: 2008-08-01 @ 17:55:20 GMT
    Photos, virtual tours and pictures of Argentina include Iguazu Falls, Mesopotamia, Buenos Aires, Patagonia, the Andean Northwest and the Lake District, Tierra del Fuego and points in between plus a…

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