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South America

Aconcagua, which is 6,960 m (22,834 ft) high.^17

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Magellan penguins

Cape Horn The southern tip of South America is called Cape Horn. The seas around it are so stormy that hundreds of ships have been shipwrecked there.

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Aconcagua

The world’s highest waterfall?

The world’s highest capital?La Paz, Bolivia, is 3,632 m (11,916 ft) above sea level. Angel Falls in Venezuela measures 979 m (3,212 ft) from top to bottom.The world’s driest town? Arica in Chile’s Atacama Desert has an annual rainfall of zero!

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