50 interesting Fun Facts About South America

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions (Agatha Christie)
I remember one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go (Michael Jackson)
I’ve been to Japan. I’ve been to China. I’ve been to Africa. I’ve been to Middle East. I’ve been to Europe a little bit. I’ve never been to South America (Collin Quinn)
There was not a war in South America for 50 years, and I have every confidence that countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace (Frank B. Kellogg)

 The most peaceful country in South America is Chile

 South America is the fourth largest continent by landmass

 Sao Paulo, Brazil is the largest city in South America

 The largest lake in South America is Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela at 13,300 sq mi

 The main languages in South America are Spanish and Portuguese

 The world’s smallest orchid- miniscule orchid (2.1mm wide) was discovered in Ecuador, South America

 The most populous city is Buenos Aires in Argentina

 The economic gap in between the rich and the poor in most South American nations is considered to be larger than in other continents

 The largest remaining natural resource is the Amazon forest

 The wettest inhabited place on earth is Buenaventura, Columbia

 Brazil has the most internet users on the continent

 The largest salt lake in the world is Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

 The highest point in South America is Cerro Aconcagua in Andes in Argentina

 The most forested country in South America is Suriname

 The highest waterfall in the world is the Angel Falls at almost 1000m

 More than 92% of the South American population are into Roman Catholicism

 According to the UN, the average life expectancy is 72 years

 20% of plants found to have anti-cancer properties are found only in the great rainforest of South America

 The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile

 The highest capital city La Paz, Bolivia

 The highest waterfall in the world is the Angel Falls in Venezuela

 The world southernmost inhabited community, Puerto Toro in Chile

 The country with the lowest literacy rate is Brazil at 86.4%

 The main religions are Roman Catholic and Protestantism

 The largest country in South America is Brazil

 The most corrupt country in South America is Venezuela according to Corruption Perception Index

 South America is divided politically into 12 Independent Country

 South America is connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama

 The two countries producing the most coffee in the world are located in South America

 Chile has the most newspaper journalists

 Six of the seventeen mega-diverse countries are found in South America (Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela)

 There are four operational Nuclear Power Reactors in Brazil

 The longest river in South America is the Amazon River, also the world’s second longest

 South America was named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci

 The heaviest snake on earth- the anaconda is found in South America

 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

 The country with the highest military spend is Columbia- 3.4% of its GDP

 The highest commercially navigable lake in the world is the Lake Titicaca

 The tallest building in South America is Parquet Central Complex, Caracas, Venezuela

 Suriname is the smallest country in the continent

 South America is the fifth most populous continent in the world

 The most deforested country in South America is Ecuador

 The only South American to win Olympic gold in weight lifting is Marie Isabel Urrutia

 According to Global Peace Index, the least peaceful country is Columbia

 More than 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced in South America

 South America major resources are gold, silver, copper, iron ore, tin and petroleum

 South America is one of the most biodiverse continents on earth

 The independence of South America was secured by Simon Bolivar (Venezuela) and Jose de \San Martin (Argentina)

 The country to have won the highest number of FIFA World Cups is Brazil

 South America has nearly 26% of the world’s renewable sources of freshwater

 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

 Argentina’s Patagonia has one of the highest wind energy potential on earth