South america facts and facts about south americas.
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Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.
South America has an area of 17,840,000 km² (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America)
The highest mountain in the world is not Mt. Everest. The Earth is not perfectly round, it is like when you roll a piece of silly putty in a ball and squish the top a little bit. Therefore, the equator is popped out. Seeing as how the Himalayas are some ways away from the equator, although Mt. Everest is highest above sea level, the highest point on Earth is somewhere in the Andes in South America
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth-largest country in the world by area.
The Amazon river dolphin, or boto, can turn bright pink, especially older males, and it lives in the freshwater rivers of South America.
Monkeys are split into Old World monkeys from Africa and Asia and New World monkeys from Central and South America, and only some New World monkeys have prehensile tails that can grab things.
The pygmy marmoset of South America is the world's smallest monkey and weighs only about 3 to 4 ounces as an adult.
Potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes Mountains of South America, in what's now Peru and Bolivia, thousands of years ago.