Holiday Accommodation in South America

South America, the fourth largest continent is approximately 6,880,000 square miles. It is divided politically into 12 independent countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela, and the overseas department of French Guiana.

The continent extends some 4,750 miles from Punta Gallinas, Colombia, in the north to Cape Horn, Chile, in the south. At its broadest point, near where it is crossed by the equator, the continent extends about 3,300 miles from east to west. South America is connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama; it is washed on the North by the Caribbean Sea, on the East by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the West by the Pacific Ocean.