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South America has an area of 17,780,000 square kilometers (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. As of 2005, its population was estimated at more than 371,090,000. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America).
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In South America, only the extreme northern parts of Colombia and Venezuela reach far enough from the Equator to enter the strongly seasonal subtropical zone. Floristically and physiognomically this northern dry area is very much like similarly dry areas of western Middle America. The strongly seasonal region of northern South America ... includes the open savannas of the Llanos extending from the Orinoco River west and north to the base of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes and the north slope of the Coast Range of Venezuela. Large areas of the lowlying, often poorly drained Llanos are seasonally inundated, especially in the Apure region.
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Throughout South America, the magician caste analogous to the medicine men or shamans of North America were known as piaies or piaes. Of those of British Guiana (now Guyana), W.H. Brett gives the following account in The Indian Tribes of Guiana (1868): "They are each furnished with a large gourd or calabash, which has been emptied of its seeds and spongy contents, and has a round stick run through the middle of it by means of two holes. The ends of this stick project—one forms the handle of the instrument, and the other has a long string to which beautiful feathers are attached, wound round it in spiral circles. Within the calabash are a few small white stones, which rattle when it is shaken or turned round. The calabash itself is usually painted red.
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The international competition honors the finest labels produced by member converters in North, South and Central America, Europe and Australia. This year's event drew 278 entries, resulting in 90 awards for 51 companies. The awards were presented at the TLMI Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, on October 10, 2006.
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Novelis has the unrivaled capability to provide its customers with a regional supply of technologically sophisticated rolled aluminum products throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Through its advanced production capabilities, the Company supplies aluminum sheet and foil to the automotive and transportation, beverage and food packaging, construction and industrial, and printing markets. For more information, visit http://www.novelis.com
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The opening of the Costa Rican center marks the sixth Global Recruitment Center for RPOworldwide, and increases the company’s round-the-clock recruitment coverage in North, Central and South American time zones. The new center is forecasted to expand to a staff of more than one hundred in the next twenty-four months.
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