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World Geography Chapter 13

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