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1. What lake is shared by Peru and Bolivia?

2. The Darien Gap is a patch of rain forest that separates Panama and which South American country?

3. Nap, Branco, Tigre, and Yapura are some of the tributaries of which river?

4. What is the administrative capital of Bolivia?

5. Which South American capital city is known by the sobriquet 'Athens of South America' because of its educational institutions?

6. Which of these cities is the capital of French Guiana.

7. What type of mountain is Cotopaxi?

8. The Calicanto bridge across the Mapocho river can be found in which capital city?

9. The upper segments of which river are called Solimoes, particularly in Brazil?

10. What is the capital of Costa Rica?

11. What do Spanish speaker call the Drake Passage?

12. As a continent, what rank is South America in population?

13. How does Brazil rank worldwide in population numbers?

14. In what country is the city of Salvador?

15. In which country does the Paraguay river originate?

16. What water body separate Cape Horn and Antarctica?

17. Which strait in Tierra del Fuego is named after the first person to have circumnavigated the world?

18. What is the capital of Uruguay?

19. In what country is the city of Maracaibo?

20. Where is the Apure River?

21. What geographical feature can be divided into the Lago Pequeno and the Lago Grande?

22. Which Peruvian city is famous for its Torre Tagle Palace?

23. What name, from Greek mythology, did the Spanish soldier Francisco de Orellan give to a river area that he had explored?