The first of three maps “visualizing the progress ... his rule over “the entire Continent of South America.” For half a millennium at least Peru has run the whole golden gamut of romance ...

Neotropical rattlesnakes are found in dry, arid parts of South America and small savanna pockets in the Amazon. Many of these snake populations are discontinuous — or separated from one another ...

The map not only uses "America" as the name for the New World for the first time, but it's also the first map to show separate South and North American continents and is the earliest recorded ...

The Amazon River is the longest in South America, and the second longest river on Earth after the Nile in Africa. The source (start) of the Amazon River is in the Andes Mountain range in Peru.