Southern Cone
| Southern Cone | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Area | 4944081 km2 |
| Population | 135,707,204 (July 2010 est.) |
| Density | 27.45 /km2[1] |
| Countries | 3, 4 or 5 |
| Dependencies | 18 |
| Demonym | South American |
| Languages | Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and many others |
| Largest urban agglomerations (2005) |
 São Paulo Buenos Aires Santiago de Chile Porto Alegre Curitiba Montevideo Asunción |
The term Southern Cone (Spanish: Cono Sur; Portuguese: Cone Sul) refers to a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, below the Tropic of Capricorn.
History
Definition
Due to geographical affinities, natural, economic and social, the Southern Cone is usually understood as the region that includes all of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the southern states of Brazil (and sometimes part of São Paulo state, because have several features in common: proximity, the high rate of industrialization and urbanization and the high GDP). In rare exceptions – just because geographical reasons – sometimes also includes Paraguay and southern Bolivia, although both have fundamentally different characteristics of other countries (such as standards of living, industrialization, ethnicity, etc.)
Racial traits
As far as ethnicity is concerned, the population of the Southern Cone has been strongly influenced by waves of immigration from Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. People of European descent, called whites make up 80 % of the total population of
Mestizos make up 15.8 % of the population, and are a majority in Paraguay.[7] Native Americans make up 3 % of the population, mulattoes (people of African descent) (0.2 %) and Asians (1.0 %), mostly in Southern Brazil and Uruguay, the remaining 1.2 %.[8]
References
- ↑ This North American density figure is based on a total land area of 4,944,081sq km
- ↑ (2007) Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI. ISBN 978-970-757-052-8.
- ↑ Argentina, como Chile y Uruguay, su población está formada casi exclusivamente por una población blanca e blanca mestiza procedente del sur de Europa, más del 90% E. García Zarza, 1992, 19.
- ↑ SOCIAL IDENTITY Marta Fierro Social Psychologist.
- ↑ massive immigration of European Argentina Uruguay Chile Brazil
- ↑ Latinoamerica.
- ↑ Hoy en día la población paraguaya es mestiza prácticamente en su totalidad.
- ↑ Historia de las repúblicas de la Plata, Manuel González Llana
