Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, known initially as India Nova, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.Along with their associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes, Mississippi, and La Plata basins. Since the Americas extend from north to south, the climate and ecology vary widely, from the arctic tundra of Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, to the tropical rainforests in Central America and South America.
Humans first settled the Americas from Asia between 20,000 and 16,000 years ago. A second migration of Na-Dene speakers followed later from Asia. The subsequent migration of the Inuit into the neoarctic completed what is generally regarded as the settlement by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The first known European settlement in the Americas was by the Norse explorer Leif Erikson. However, the colonization never became permanent and was later abandoned. The Spanish voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492 to 1504 resulted in permanent contact with European (and subsequently, other Old World) powers, which eventually led to the Columbian exchange and inaugurated a period of exploration, conquest, and colonization whose effects and consequences persist to the present. The Spanish presence involved the enslavement of large numbers of the indigenous population of America.
Diseases introduced from Europe and West Africa devastated the indigenous peoples, and the European powers colonized the Americas. Mass emigration from Europe, including large numbers of indentured servants, and importation of African slaves largely replaced the indigenous peoples in much of the Americas.
Decolonization of the Americas began with the American Revolution in the 1770s and largely ended with the Spanish–American War in the late 1890s. Currently, almost all of the population of the Americas resides in independent countries; however, the legacy of the colonization and settlement by Europeans is that the Americas share many common cultural traits, most notably Christianity and the use of West European languages: primarily Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, and, to a lesser extent, Dutch.
The Americas are home to more than a billion inhabitants, two-thirds of whom reside in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. It is home to eight megacities (metropolitan areas with 10 million inhabitants or more): Greater Mexico City (21.2 million), São Paulo (21.2 million), New York City (19.7 million), Los Angeles (18.8 million), Buenos Aires (15.6 million), Rio de Janeiro (13.0 million), Bogotá (10.4 million), and Lima (10.1 million). Provided by Wikipedia
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Análisis comparativo de la declaración previa del riesgo en el contrato de seguro en las legislaciones argentina y española / by Brel Pedreño, América
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Excursiones de estudio realizadas durante el año 1937. Relación de viajes : Una excursión botánica a la provincia de Corrientes by Rodrigo, América del Pilar
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Regulación temporal del metabolismo de fosfatidilcolina en células en cultivo / by Acosta Rodríguez, Victoria América
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Artistas y espectáculos / by Buenos Aires, Centro Editor de América Latina
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Civilización : configuraciones de la diversidad. by Centro Antropológico de Documentación de América Latina
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Manifiesto del Congreso a los pueblos 1816 by Sud América, Congreso de las Provincias Unidas de
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Pooling, saving, and prevention : mitigating the risk of old age poverty in Chile / by Truman G. Packard by Packard, Truman, Banco Mundial, World Bank. Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office
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Manual sobre la utilización de los Cultivos Andinos subexplotados en la alimentación. / by Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe
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Dificultades en la vida cotidiana que presentan los enfermeros en el contexto de pandemia : Estudio a realizarse en el servicio de Covid – 19 del Hospital de Niños Santísima Trinid... by Ventura Gutiérrez, Lidia Verónica, Esteban, América Vilma, Mery, Gilda, Sosa, Magali Emilse
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Regional Integration in Latin America in the Fields of Unesco's Competence. by Conference of Ministers of Education and Those Responsible for the Promotion of Science and Technology in Relation to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean : 1971 - Venezuela
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Del diálogo a la acción : informe. by Seminario multinacional de curriculum para los países de América Latina y del Caribe. Caracas, 1975
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Condiciones de vida y de trabajo de las poblaciones indígenas de América Latina. by Conferencia de los Estados de América Miembros de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo : Montevideo : 1949
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Los vascos y América / by Jornadas sobre el comercio vasco con América en el siglo XVIII y la Real Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas en el II centenario de Carlos III (1988 : Bilbao-San Sebastián)
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Declaración de la Conferencia Regional de Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe by Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura. Instituto Internacional para la Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe., Ministerio de Educación Nacional
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COVID-19, mucho más que un problema de salud: los efectos de la pandemia by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Consejo Social, Comisión Géneros y Disidencias, Servicio a la Acción Popular, Centro de Intercambio y Servicios Cono Sur, Red Mujer y Hábitat de América Latina y el Caribe, Las Alicias, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir
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Problemas y perspectivas de la agricultura latinoamericana /
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Motivos de la baja concurrencia al control de niños sano epresados por las madres con hijos en riesgo menores de 6 años.
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La crisis urbana en América Latina y el Caribe : reflexiones sobre alternativas de solución /
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