The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source (start) of the Amazon River is in the Andes Mountain range in Peru.

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The Pacific Ocean is to the west of South America and the Atlantic Ocean is to the north and east. The continent contains twelve ...

Angola rocks and fossils tell the whole story Africa and South America started to split around 140 million years ago, causing gashes in Earth's crust called rifts to open up along pre-existing ...