South America

Countries, regions and cities in South America

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Araripina

Araripina is a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil, known for holding 95% of the country's gypsum reserves.

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Redenção, Ceará

Redenção is a municipality in Ceará, Brazil, located 55 km from Fortaleza. It is historically significant as the first Brazilian city to abo...

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Serra Talhada

Serra Talhada is a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil, known for its caatinga vegetation, xaxado dance, and hot semi-desertic climate.

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Pato Branco

Pato Branco is a municipality in Paraná, Brazil, known for its subtropical climate and notable footballers Alexandre Pato and Rogério Ceni.

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Vicente Pires

Vicente Pires is an administrative region in Brazil's Federal District, founded in 1989. It features a tropical savanna climate and is known...

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Manhuaçu

Manhuaçu is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for coffee production and proximity to Caparaó National Park.

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Itajubá

Itajubá is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for its strategic defense industry, university, and location in the Serra da Mantiq...

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Caratinga

Caratinga is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for coffee production and Atlantic Forest conservation areas.

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Tumaco

Tumaco is a port city and municipality in Nariño Department, Colombia, known for its Afro-Colombian culture, oil exports, and tropical clima...

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Cacoal

Cacoal is a municipality in Rondônia, Brazil, with a population of 87,877. It features a tropical savanna climate and an economy based on ag...

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Patrocínio

Patrocínio is a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil, known for coffee production, dairy farming, and its location on BR-365.

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Ponta Porã

Ponta Porã is a border municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, known for its conurbation with Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay, and its ag...

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Montero

Montero is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Nas X, released in 2021.

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Rafaela

Rafaela is a city in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, known for its dairy industry, theater culture, and motorsports history.

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Fusagasugá

Fusagasugá is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, known for its orchid production and warm climate in the Andes.

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Ciénaga

Ciénagas are unique alkaline, freshwater wetland systems found in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, characterized by saturated soi...

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Associação Sportiva São Domingos

Associação Sportiva São Domingos was a Brazilian football club based in Marechal Deodoro, Alagoas.

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Cáceres

Cáceres is a Spanish city and municipality in Extremadura, serving as the provincial capital and seat of the Regional Supreme Court.

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Reconquista

The Reconquista was a series of military campaigns by northern Iberian Christian polities against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, concluding in 149...

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Gurupi

Gurupi is a municipality in Tocantins, Brazil, known for agriculture and its location between the Araguaia and Tocantins rivers.