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World Geography Chapter 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mulattoes | people of mixed African and other ancestry |
| bauxite | a mineral used in making aluminum |
| llanos | which means "plains" in Spanish |
| cordilleras | parallel mountain ranges of the Andes |
| campesinos | tenant farmers |
| altiplano | "high plain" in Peru and Bolivia |
| paramos | "high plain" in Ecuador |
| timber line | the boundary above which continuous forest vegetation cannot grow |
| selva | the area between the cold, dry mountains and the steamy lowlands/these forested regions are in Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia |
| estuary | a broad river mouth formed where a flooded river valley meets the sea |
| piedmont | foothills |
| pampas | temperate grasslands that stretch for hundreds of miles |
| gauchos | cowboys |