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The second largest urban area in South America, Buenos Aries is the capitol city of Argentina and home to approximatly 3 million people.
Natural color high resolution satellite image of Isla Isabela, Isla Fernandina, and Isla Santiago, all part of the Galapagos Island Chain.
Los Glaciares National Park is located in the Southwest of Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine part of Patagonia. Los Glaciares owes its name to the numerous glaciers covering roughly half of the World Heritage property. Many of these glaciers are fed by the massive South Patagonian Ice Field, the most extensive South American relict of the glaciological processes of the Quaternary Period.
Deforestation in the Brazilian state of Rhondonia is seen here. Primary forest in the amazon is routinely cleared to support soybean and pasture production.
The Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is the second most populous metropolitan area in Brazil, the sixth most populous in the Americas and the eighteenth largest in the world. Nearly 6.5 million people live in the region. The city will play host to the 2016 Olympic Games.
The capital of Chili, Santiago was founded in the mid-1500's. and sits at the base of the Andes in Chili's Central Valley. The greater metropolitan area is now home to more than 7 million people.