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America is the name of one of the five continents that make up the planet earth and that in terms of surface it stands out for being the second longest, after the continent Asian.

One of the continents that makes up the earth and the second most extensive

By case and given its location, America, or the American continent, as it is also called, occupies almost the entire western hemisphere of the planet, with a surface area of ​​over 42 million square kilometers.

To be more precise regarding its location, it extends, in the north, from the Ocean Arctic glacial until the Cape Horn located in the south.

The coasts of the west side are washed by the Pacific Ocean while those corresponding to the east by the Atlantic Ocean.

It should be noted as a unique and relevant characteristic that America, is the the only one of the continents that ranges from the north pole to the opposite pole, the south.

Countries that comprise it, climate, geography, and cultural and social differences between North America and Latin America

Meanwhile, such a situation makes it very varied in terms of climates and also with regard to cultures and languages.

Usually, in treatises, maps, and books of geography we find the division of this continent into the following regions: North America or North America, South America, Central America and the West Indies.

Regarding the division politics, America, is made up of 35 national and sovereign countries (Venezuela, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominican Republic, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Jamaica, Honduras, Haiti, Guyana, Guatemala, Grenada, United States, El Salvador, Ecuador, Dominica, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, Canada, Bolivia, Brazil, Belize, Barbados, Bahamas, Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda), by a free state but associated with the United States, such is the case of Puerto Rico, and by twenty-four countries dependent on other state.

In cultural and historical matters, this continent is divided into Latin America or Latin America, and in Anglo-Saxon America, for many also called North America.

In the first, the towns that have a inheritance, a Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, being the Spanish language the language par excellence that is spoken in the countries that compose it, while the same happens with the uses, traditions and traditions, since those inherited by the Portuguese and Spanish colonizers persist.

While in Anglo-Saxon America live those peoples who knew how to be conquered by the English and therefore the English language is the one that is widely used for communication, and this also implies that many of their traditions are associated with the English.

In climatic and geographical matters, there are well-defined characteristics and they remain almost traced throughout.

The coast of the Pacific Ocean is crossed from the north to the south by a chain of mountains that run parallel to the Pacific Ocean, while plateaus proliferate on the shores of the ocean Atlantic.

Precisely the oceans that surround this continent are a means of communication with other continents, the Atlantic communicates with Europe and Africa, the Pacific with Asia and Australia; and the other ocean that runs through it, the Arctic, which remains frozen for most of the year by the weather extreme, it is not important as a means of communication due to such climatic issue.

The center of the continent is characterized by the presence of plains.

The climate, something so relevant to human life, vegetation and fauna, in almost all of the Americas. North is very cold and there is a more temperate zone, while in South America the climate prevails tempered.

The Spanish navigator Columbus discovers America in 1492

The discovery of America, as the historical moment in which the continent became a reality for Europe is called, somehow marked the birth of America.

Christopher Columbusof him, a Spanish navigator who had the mission of finding a route through which to arrive more easily and directly to the Indies, he was the first European to reach these lands and therefore he is designated as their discoverer.

This event occurred towards the end of the 15th century, in the year 1492.

Now, the name of America comes from having done the honor to another navigator of those years, Americo vespucio, who was the first to identify America as a new continent.

Columbus believed he had reached the East Indies.

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