Turismo en América del Sur
In South America the traveller will find upper from the tip of the Western Hemisphere to the greatest forest of the world. Some of the outstanding places of the region are: the Island Daisy and the archipelago of the Roques, in the Venezuelan Caribbean, with beautiful and varied beaches; salto of the Angel (upper of the world), in the Park Nacional Canaima (Venezuela); the national parks Amacayacu and Cahuinari, in the department of Amazon (Colombia), with trees of more than 50 meters of height (mahogany, rubber, balso, red cedar and white cedar) and enormous black caymans; the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador), located to almost 1,000 kilometers of the continent, a national park of world-wide fame by its prehistoric animals and their exotic birds; the city of Quito, capital of Ecuador, founded on 1534; the city of Cuzco (Peru), considered by the natives like the Navel of the World and well-known today like the Archaeological Capital of America, near which is the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu; the Titi-Poop lake, located in the limit between Peru and Bolivia to 3,810 meters on the level of the sea, that is the navigable lake upper of the world; the Park Nacional Sajama, in the department of Oruro (Bolivia), that takes the name of the located dull volcano in center of the park and has the highest forests of the world (forests of keñua, which they get to occur to 5,200 meters of height); the historical city of Sucre, in Bolivia; the desert of the Atacama (North of Chile), driest of the world; the exhuberante amazonian forest, in the middle of which is the famous city of Manaos (been of Amazon, Brazil); the archipelago Fernando de Noronha, in the state of Pernambuco (Brazil), with its multiple paradisíacas beaches, declared Patrimony of the Humanity by the United Nations; the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), with its beaches and his world-wide famous Carnival; the beaches of the area of Buzios, in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); the island of Florianópolis, in the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil), in that are the beaches Of the English, Canasvieiras and other 40 equally beautiful ones; the imposing Cataracts of the Iguazú, located near the cities of Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil), Puerto Iguazú (Argentina) and City of the East (Paraguay), with 275 jumps distributed throughout 2,700 meters; the beaches of End of the East (Uruguay), as beautiful as varied; the city of Montevideo (Uruguay), located on the Eastern margin of the River of the Silver, and the city of Buenos Aires, located on the western margin of he himself river; the Aconcagua hill, in the limit between Argentina and Chile, the Maxima height of the Western Hemisphere (6,959 meters); the Peninsula Valdés, near the city of Puerto Madryn (province of the Chubut, region of the Patagonia, Argentina), whose gulfs the austral frank whales go annually (between May and December), and where there are colonies of marine wolves, marine elephants, pingüinos magallánicos, ñandúes, guanacos, and thousands of birds; the Brown Skillful glacier, that shells on the Argentine lake (province of Santa Cruz, region of the Patagonia, Argentina); the island of Chiloé (South of Chile), with its innumerable churches and the colorful cities of Ancud and Castro; the colorful Chilean islands of Passover and Robinson Crusoe (this last form leaves from the archipelago Juan Fernandez); and Ushuaia (Land province of the Fire, region of the Patagonia, Argentina), the most austral city of the world. see less
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