Latin America

E8862

cultural region geographical region macroregion

Latin America is a culturally diverse region of the Americas, spanning Mexico, Central and South America, and much of the Caribbean, where Romance languages—primarily Spanish and Portuguese—predominate.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Latin America canonical	2,057
Latin America and the Caribbean	67
Ibero-America	16
Latin America and Caribbean	5
América Latina	2
Latin American states	2
Central and South America and the Caribbean	1
Hispanic America	1
Hispanoamérica	1
Latin American	1
Latin American and Caribbean countries	1
Latin American and Caribbean region	1
Latin America–United States	1
Spanish America	1

Statements (91)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ geographical region ⓘ macroregion ⓘ
borderedByOcean	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ
containsCountry	Argentina ⓘ Belize ⓘ Bolivia ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ Ecuador ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ British Guiana ⓘ surface form: Guyana Haiti ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Panama ⓘ Paraguay ⓘ Peru ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ Uruguay ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ
containsTerritory	French Guiana ⓘ Guadeloupe ⓘ Martinique ⓘ Saint Barthélemy ⓘ Sint Maarten ⓘ surface form: Saint Martin
continent	Americas ⓘ
dominantLanguage	French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
dominantLanguageFamily	Romance languages ⓘ
hasCreoleLanguage	Haitian Creole ⓘ
hasCulturalProduct	Latin American cinema ⓘ Latin American literature ⓘ Latin American music ⓘ
hasDemographicFeature	high urbanization rate ⓘ young population structure ⓘ
hasEconomicBloc	MERCOSUR ⓘ Pacific Alliance ⓘ
hasEconomicCharacteristic	export-oriented commodity production ⓘ middle-income economies predominance ⓘ
hasHistoricalEvent	Latin American independence movements ⓘ surface form: Latin American wars of independence
hasHistoricalPeriod	Portuguese colonization of the Americas ⓘ Spanish colonization of the Americas ⓘ
hasIndigenousLanguage	Aymara ⓘ Guaraní ⓘ Quechua ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Bogotá ⓘ Buenos Aires ⓘ Caracas ⓘ Havana, Cuba ⓘ surface form: Havana Lima ⓘ Mexico City ⓘ Rio de Janeiro ⓘ Santiago ⓘ São Paulo ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage	French ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
hasMountainRange	Andes ⓘ
hasRegionalOrganization	Andean Community ⓘ Community of Latin American and Caribbean States ⓘ MERCOSUR ⓘ Organization of American States ⓘ Union of South American Nations ⓘ
hasRiver	Amazon River ⓘ Orinoco River ⓘ Paraná River ⓘ
includes	Caribbean ⓘ Central America ⓘ Mexico ⓘ South America ⓘ
locatedIn	Americas ⓘ
majorEthnicGroup	Afro-descendant populations ⓘ European-descendant populations ⓘ Indigenous peoples of North America ⓘ surface form: Indigenous peoples of the Americas Mestizo ⓘ
majorReligion	Protestantism ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ
partOf	Western Hemisphere ⓘ

Referenced by (2,157)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Great Depression → hasLocation → Latin America ⓘ

Mexico → regionalAffiliation → Latin America ⓘ

Roman Catholicism → hasMajorRegionOfAdherents → Latin America ⓘ

Point Four Program → targetRegion → Latin America ⓘ

.cl → region → Latin America ⓘ

Terminal 4 → regionServed → Latin America ⓘ

subject surface form: Terminal 4 (JFK)

Cold War → hasLocation → Latin America ⓘ

TEC → hasDiocesesIn → Latin America ⓘ

subject surface form: The Episcopal Church

ECUSA → hasDiocesesIn → Latin America ⓘ

International Style → geographicSpread → Latin America ⓘ

Green Revolution → influencedRegion → Latin America ⓘ

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center → worksIn → Latin America ⓘ

Ecuador → region → Latin America ⓘ

Panama → partOf → Latin America ⓘ

Beaux-Arts → popularIn → Latin America ⓘ

Anglican Communion → hasGlobalPresence → Latin America ⓘ

Los Angeles International Airport → isMajorGatewayFor → Latin America ⓘ

South America → hasCulturalRegion → Latin America ⓘ

University of Havana → isAmongOldestUniversitiesIn → Latin America ⓘ

Pacific Alliance → regionServed → Latin America ⓘ

Orthodox Judaism → geographicDistribution → Latin America ⓘ

Third World → geographicalFocus → Latin America ⓘ

ACM Distinguished Speaker Program → geographicCoverage → Latin America ⓘ

Central America → culturalRegionOf → Latin America ⓘ

Mexican peso → region → Latin America ⓘ

Interwar period → location → Latin America ⓘ

PayPal → supportsRegion → Latin America ⓘ

Reina-Valera → primaryRegionOfUse → Latin America ⓘ

Latin American independence movements → location → Latin America ⓘ

this entity surface form: Spanish America

Technical Cooperation Administration → operatedIn → Latin America ⓘ

Yma Sumac → performedIn → Latin America ⓘ

Social Convergence → region → Latin America ⓘ

CLP → region → Latin America ⓘ

Community of Latin American and Caribbean States → continent → Latin America ⓘ

Community of Latin American and Caribbean States → regionServed → Latin America ⓘ

Mango → widelyConsumedIn → Latin America ⓘ

Ford Motor Credit Company → areaServed → Latin America ⓘ

Sephardi Jews → dispersedTo → Latin America ⓘ

Corsicans → diaspora → Latin America ⓘ

FedEx → operatesIn → Latin America ⓘ

Broad Front (Frente Amplio) → region → Latin America ⓘ

subject surface form: Broad Front (Chile)

Haiti → UNRegion → Latin America ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latin America and the Caribbean

Museo de la Revolución → region → Latin America ⓘ

Rastafari movement → spreadTo → Latin America ⓘ

Alliance for Affordable Internet → regionServed → Latin America ⓘ

this entity surface form: Latin America and the Caribbean

Alexander → usageRegion → Latin America ⓘ

University of Chile → locatedIn → Latin America ⓘ

International Workers’ Day → observedIn → Latin America ⓘ

Regional Internet Registries → servesRegion → Latin America ⓘ

subject surface form: LACNIC

this entity surface form: Latin America and Caribbean