South America

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The country sits on one of the most active tectonic boundaries in South America, where the Caribbean Plate is sliding eastward along the South American Plate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

The butterflies belong to the Heliconius tribe, a group found across the rainforests of Central and South America.

From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026

Colombia has long been the United States' closest partner in South America, pouring billions of dollars into the country's military and intelligence services.

From Barron's • Jun. 21, 2026

Additional crude supplies in the form of exports coming mostly from the U.S., and also from countries in South America and Africa, softened the blow.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee