25 Interesting Facts About North America That Most People Don’t Know ???
1.) South America is the fourth largest continent by landmass.
2.) The largest lake in South America is Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela at 13,300 sq mi.
3.) The world’s smallest orchid- miniscule orchid (2.1mm wide) was discovered in Ecuador, South America.
4.) The economic gap in between the rich and the poor in most South American nations is considered to be larger than in other continents.
5.) The wettest inhabited place on earth is Buenaventura, Columbia.
6.) Brazil has the most internet users on the continent.
7.) The highest point in South America is Cerro Aconcagua in Andes in Argentina.
8.) The highest waterfall in the world is the Angel Falls at almost 1000m.
9.) According to the UN, the average life expectancy is 72 years.
10.) The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile.
11.) The highest capital city La Paz, Bolivia.
12.) The country with the lowest literacy rate is Brazil at 86.4%.
13.) The most corrupt country in South America is Venezuela according to Corruption Perception Index.
14.) South America is divided politically into 12 Independent Country.
15.) South America is connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama.
16.) The two countries producing the most coffee in the world are located in South America.
17.) Six of the seventeen mega-diverse countries are found in South America (Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela).
18.) The longest river in South America is the Amazon River, also the world’s second longest.
19.) The heaviest snake on earth- the anaconda is found in South America.
20.) The country with the highest military spend is Columbia- 3.4% of its GDP.
21.) South America is the fifth most populous continent in the world.
22.) South America has nearly 26% of the world’s renewable sources of freshwater.
23.) South America contains more than 40% of the world’s plants and animals species, in an area smaller than 15% of the earth’s land surface.
24.) Argentina’s Patagonia has one of the highest wind energy potential on earth.
25.) Quinine, the first drug that was used to prevent and treat malaria is obtained from the bark of the tree called Cinchona that grows in Ecuador, South America.