Ancient cities in south america
In August 1498 Columbus ' ships entered the mouth of the Orinoco, marking the beginning of the conquest of the continent by Europeans. During the expedition, he opened one of the Antilles. For the first time he went far to the West at the head of a small sailing squadron - to find the shortest route to India. Navigator and merchant Christopher Columbus under the flag of the Spanish crown four times (1492–1504) called for the New world. During this period Europeans began to colonize and develop America. Physical geography of South America has led to long-term isolation of this continent from the Old world, his lack of knowledge to the XV century. Scientists and travelers of that time assumed that there was a Western route to the rich countries of the East. There are a number of legends and hypotheses based on the evidence on the voyage to the Islands and coast of America ancient Eurasian peoples (Phoenicians, Egyptians, Vikings), the inhabitants of Oceania. On the East coast is washed by the Atlantic, in the North-the Caribbean sea.Īncient Greek maps and figures of Ptolemy continents in the Western hemisphere are not plotted. The nature of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) is also experiencing the influence of the Antarctic region. Geographical position of the continent of South America near Antarctica has caused severe conditions in the South of the continent, Magellan Strait and the Islands of the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego. The width of the Strait ranges from 818 to 1120 km, its depth - from 276 to 5249 m. The water surface stretches for 460 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific. South America and Antarctica separates the Strait which was named after the pirate of the middle Ages Francis Drake. Here are the highest and longest mountain ranges of the Andes. The Western edge of the continent washed by the Pacific ocean and its cold Peruvian current. Position relative to the equator this area - 5° Yu. The Geographical position of South America in longitude is the coordinates of the two extreme points in the East and in the West:ġ0° parallel distance on the mainland reaches 4655 km and 5150 km - this is the highest latitudinal size of the continent of South America. Froward on the southern edge of the continent The Geographical position of South America in latitude. This, in turn, suggests that the origin of the Slavs h. However, the language of nationality bears the archaic features of the Indo-European community. Slavs (under this name), according to some researchers, appeared in the story only in 6 century ad.
A description of the geographical position of South America will help to understand which factors are crucial for the formation of the modern climate and natural areas, activities of the population. Due to its remote location in the organic world South America remained endemic and relict species of plants and animals. The climate became warmer, changed the course of the Amazon, there was a strong eutrophication and overgrowing of wet Redwood forests of the valley in the middle and lower reaches.
The result of this counter-movement became a powerful clash of arrays of the lithosphere, the formation of fold mountains (the Andes). In ancient times strong seismic tremors caused a split of the land and the drift of South American plate far to the West - toward the Nazca plate. The Territory of the continent (including adjacent Islands) - is 18 million km 2 (the fourth square). General information on the mainland of South America. Largely modern appearance not only determines the geographical position of South America (GP) and its geological structure, but also the activities of the population. Then after it was built the eponymous canal. Until the beginning of XX century, two continents in the Western hemisphere were connected by the isthmus of Panama. After they split and drift to the South-West mainland for a very long time existed in isolation from the other continents. In ancient times South America was an integral part of other land masses.