Americas

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The Americas are the combined landmasses of North and South America, encompassing a vast region of diverse cultures, climates, and ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical area
landmass
region
borderedByOcean Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
containsCountry Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
British Guiana
surface form: Guyana

Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United States of America
surface form: United States

Uruguay
Venezuela
containsSubregion Alaska
Amazon Basin
Amazon rainforest
surface form: Amazon Rainforest

Andes
Antilles
Appalachian Mountains
Atacama Desert
Brazilian Highlands
Arctic Archipelago
surface form: Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Canadian Shield
Caribbean
Central America
Central Valley
surface form: Central Valley of California

Great Lakes region
Great Plains
Guatemala Highlands
Guiana Shield
Gulf of Mexico
Isthmus of Panama
La Plata Basin
Labrador Peninsula
Orinoco Llanos floodplains
surface form: Llanos

Mesoamerica
Mississippi River basin
surface form: Mississippi River Basin

Orinoco Basin
Pampas
Patagonia
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Madre Occidental
Sierra Madre Oriental
Sonoran Desert
Tierra del Fuego region
surface form: Tierra del Fuego

Yucatán Peninsula
continentPart North America
South America
hasClimateType Mediterranean climate
arid climate
polar climate
temperate climate
tropical climate
hasCulturalCharacteristic ethnic diversity
linguistic diversity
religious diversity
hasEcosystem coral reef
desert
grassland
rainforest
savanna
temperate forest
tundra
wetland
hasHighestPoint Aconcagua
hasHistoricalEvent Columbian Exchange
European colonization of the Americas
indigenous civilizations
hasIndigenousCivilization Ancestral Puebloans
Aztec Empire
surface form: Aztec civilization

Inca Empire
Maya civilization
Mississippian culture
Olmec civilization
hasLanguageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
Germanic languages
Indigenous American languages
Romance languages
hasMajorColonialPower Denmark
France
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
hasMajorLake Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Michigan
Lake Nicaragua
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior
Lake Titicaca
hasMajorRiver Amazon River
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Orinoco River
Paraná River
Rio Grande
Saint Lawrence River
Yukon River
locatedInHemisphere Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
separatedFromContinent Africa
Eurasia
separatedFromContinentByWaterBody Bering Strait
Drake Passage

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Guerra del Asiento ubicaciónPrincipal Americas
this entity surface form: América
BR region Americas
BRA hasRegion Americas
Continental Divide continent Americas
Mingei International Museum hasFocusRegion Americas
this entity surface form: the Americas
Voith operatesIn Americas
Clifford Chance operatesIn Americas
Grande-Terre locatedIn Americas
BA:US priceSourceRegion Americas
roseate spoonbill nativeTo Americas
Passerellidae primaryRange Americas
Phoenicopteridae distribution Americas
this entity surface form: the Americas
Jaguar nativeTo Americas
Toronto Zoo hasSection Americas
DP World areaServed Americas
Marsupialia nativeTo Americas
Trochilidae nativeTo Americas
United States men’s national wheelchair basketball program region Americas
this entity surface form: Americas Zone
FIBA AmeriCup continent Americas
BNP Paribas areaServed Americas
Parkinsonia aculeata nativeTo Americas
Parkinsonia nativeTo Americas