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  • Thumbnail for Falkland Islands
    The Falkland Islands (/ˈfɔː(l)klənd, ˈfɒlk-/ FAW(L)K-lənd, FOLK-; Spanish: Islas Malvinas [ˈislas malˈβinas]) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean...
    93 KB (9,085 words) - 22:03, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish colonization of the Americas
    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492...
    134 KB (16,611 words) - 04:02, 15 June 2024
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    The Darién Gap (UK: /ˈdɛəriən, ˈdær-/, US: /ˌdɛəriˈɛn, ˌdɑːr-, dɑːrˈjɛn/, Spanish: Tapón del Darién [taˈpon del daˈɾjen], lit. 'Darién plug') is a geographic...
    61 KB (6,574 words) - 15:43, 5 July 2024
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    Punta Arenas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpunta aˈɾenas], historically known as Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region...
    41 KB (3,583 words) - 17:45, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of Chile
    The University of Chile (Spanish: Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated...
    36 KB (3,901 words) - 04:15, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish profanity
    The Spanish language employs a wide range of swear words that vary between Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic...
    93 KB (12,638 words) - 03:46, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karol Meyer
    Karoline Mariechen "Karol" Meyer (born October 19, 1968 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil) is a Brazilian free diver. She holds two Guinness Book of World...
    3 KB (205 words) - 18:59, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quipu
    Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America...
    53 KB (6,082 words) - 19:21, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colonia del Sacramento
    Colonia del Sacramento (Spanish: [koˈlonja ðel sakɾaˈmento] ; Portuguese: Colônia do Sacramento) is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Río de la Plata...
    26 KB (1,961 words) - 10:24, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Community of Portuguese Language Countries
    The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community...
    56 KB (4,878 words) - 01:17, 15 June 2024
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    The region known as Hispanic America (Spanish: Hispanoamérica or América Hispana) and historically as Spanish America (América Española) is all the Spanish-speaking...
    40 KB (2,970 words) - 03:19, 11 July 2024
  • The Mapuche conflict (Spanish: conflicto mapuche) involves indigenous Mapuche communities, also known as the Araucanians, located in Araucanía (Spanish...
    67 KB (6,904 words) - 00:23, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2010 Chile earthquake
    The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34:12 local time...
    141 KB (11,609 words) - 05:23, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Itajubá
    Itajubá is a municipality in southeastern Minas Gerais state of the Federative Republic of Brazil. It lies in a valley by the Sapucaí river and has terrain...
    8 KB (698 words) - 00:00, 22 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Abaeté
    Abaeté is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In 2020, the population was 23,250 in a total area of 1,816 square kilometers...
    7 KB (458 words) - 12:21, 25 August 2022
  • Acts and displays of prejudice, xenophobia, discrimination, violence, and racism against Venezuelan migrants have intensified in the 2010s due to the Venezuelan...
    43 KB (4,557 words) - 00:36, 10 July 2024
  • The 2011–12 Primera División season is the 121st season of top-flight professional football in Argentina. A total of 20 teams will compete in the league...
    59 KB (1,270 words) - 02:30, 14 February 2023
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    Piau is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. At the end of the eighteenth century, those who had been involved...
    6 KB (382 words) - 10:52, 10 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Feminism in Latin America
    Latin American feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and achieving equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and...
    47 KB (5,801 words) - 04:14, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Regina Pacini
    Regina Isabel Luisa Pacini Quintero (January 6, 1871 – September 18, 1965) was a Portuguese lyric soprano, and First Lady of Argentina as the wife of Marcelo...
    4 KB (303 words) - 00:51, 1 April 2023
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