43.209 Colonial Latin America

UML, Fall 2003

Prof. Carlsmith

 

Map Terms for Modern Latin America[1]

 

 N.B.  There is obviously some overlap between these map terms and the prior ones.

 

Countries

Mexico

Guatemala

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Panama

Venezuela

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Bolivia

Brazil

Paraguay

Chile

Argentina

Uruguay

Trinidad & Tobago

Cuba

 

Capitals

Mexico City

Caracas

Bogotà

Lima

La Paz

Valparaiso

Buenos Aires

Sao Paulo

Rio de Janeiro

 

Rivers, Mountains, & Important Geographical Sites

Amazon River

Orinoco River

Falkland Islands

Andes Mountains

Sierra Mountains

 


[1] For useful maps, see Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, Colonial Lives (Oxford UP, 2000), pp. xv-xviii; Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes, Colonial Latin America, vol. 1 (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000), pp. xiv; on the Web, see http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas.html, or for blank maps, see http://abcteach.com/Maps/latamer.htm  or http://www.southernct.edu/~lukinbea/latinamerica.pdf (this is a PDF file)