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 | | Commonly referred to as part of the Americas, like North America, South America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a previously undiscovered New World. |
 | | South America contains the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls, the largest river (by volume), the Amazon, the longest mountain range, the Andes, the driest desert, Atacama, the largest rainforest, Amazon, the highest capital city, La Paz, Bolivia, and the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia, Argentina. |
 | | South America is thought to have been first inhabited by people crossing the Bering Land Bridge, now the Bering strait, though there are also suggestions of migration from the southern Pacific Ocean. |
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