Percentage of people self identifying as Indigenous in South American countries

Percentage of people self identifying as Indigenous in South American countries

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‘Paraguay is extremely low and from what I understand the people have less of a stigma about identifying as indigenous—nearly everyone is of mixed heritage and more people actually speak Guarani than Spanish. I suspect people were given the choice of choosing between “indigenous” and “mixed”’

1587 map of the Americas, Pacific - by Abraham Ortelius

1587 map of the Americas, Pacific - by Abraham Ortelius

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“Very nice map.

“The passage at the bottom of South America is in fact the Strait of Magellan, (Latin: fretum magellanicum). South of it is Terra del Fuego (Spanish: Land of Fire). Cape Horn was not discovered until 1616 proving that Terra del Fuego was not the northern part of what would later be named Antarctica”–doitstuart