Region
The Americas
From boreal Canada to the Patagonian steppe.
The Americas stretch from the Arctic tundra of northern Canada to the windswept steppe of Patagonia — every climate zone on Earth, often arranged in dramatic vertical bands within a single country. Peru contains coastal desert, Andean highland, and Amazon rainforest within a few hundred kilometres. Mexico contains everything from Chihuahuan desert to tropical rainforest to high pine forest.
The most distinctive Americas signature is the gridded settlement pattern of the United States and Canadian Prairies — visible from orbit at almost any zoom, and unlike anything in the Old World. South America has its own distinctive cues: the Brazilian deforestation frontier, the orderly grids of Argentine Pampas farms, the linear coastal cities of Chile, and the unmistakable shape of the Andes running the full length of the continent.
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