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The Andes or Andean Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world . They are a continuous range of highlands along the western edge of ___MASK95___ . This range is about long , about wide ( widest between 18 ° south and 20 ° south latitude ), and of an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries : Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia , Argentina and Chile . The Region of Magallanes , officially the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean ___MASK82___ , is one of Chile ' s 15 first order administrative divisions . It is the southernmost , largest , and second least populated region of Chile . It comprises four provinces : Última Esperanza , Magallanes , Tierra del Fuego , and Antártica Chilena . The guanaco (" Lama guanicoe "), a camelid native to ___MASK95___ , stands between at the shoulder and weighs . Its color varies very little ( unlike the domestic llama ), ranging from a light brown to dark cinnamon and shading to white underneath . Guanacos have grey faces and small , straight ears . The Nordenskjöld ( or ) is a lake located in Torres del Paine National Park in the Magallanes Region , southern Chile . The lake is named after the Swede Otto Nordenskiöld who discovered the lake in the beginning of the 20th century . The outfall of Nordenskjöld Lake consists of a waterfall known as Salto Grande . At this western end of the lake on the southern side is an abundance of wildlife including wild grazing guanaco . An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface . Ice shelves are only found in ___MASK82___ , Greenland , Canada and the Russian Arctic . The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded ( resting on bedrock ) ice that feeds it is called the grounding line . The thickness of ice shelves ranges from about 100 to 1000 meters . Chile , officially the Republic of Chile , is a South American country occupying a long , narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west . It borders Peru to the north , Bolivia to the northeast , Argentina to the east , and the Drake Passage in the far south . Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández , Salas y Gómez , Desventuradas , and Easter Island in ___MASK44___ . Chile also claims about of ___MASK82___ , although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty . The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to ___MASK82___ ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . The Salto Grande is a waterfall on the Paine River , after the Nordenskjöld Lake , within the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile . In the vicinity of Salto Grande are a variety of natural vegetation forms as well as certain wildlife species , including the wild guanaco . The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost ___MASK95___ , covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina , and are part of the Neotropic ecozone . It is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion , and contains the world ' s southernmost forests . ___MASK82___ ( US English , UK English or ) is Earth ' s southernmost continent . It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere , almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle , and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean . At , it is the fifth - largest continent . For comparison , ___MASK82___ is nearly twice the size of Australia . About 98 % of ___MASK82___ is covered by ice that averages in thickness , which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula . A waterfall is a place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of drops in the course of a stream or river . Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf . ___MASK44___ ( or ), also known as Oceanica , is a region centred on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean . Opinions of what constitutes ___MASK44___ range from its three subregions of Melanesia , Micronesia , and Polynesia to , more broadly , the entire insular region between Southeast ___MASK58___ and the Americas , including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago . The Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces  Sea of Hoces  is the body of water between ___MASK95___ ' s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica . It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean ( Scotia Sea ) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean . Bolivia (; ), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western - central ___MASK95___ . It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil , to the southeast by Paraguay , to the south by Argentina , to the southwest by Chile , and to the northwest by Peru . One - third of the country is the Andean mountain range , with one of its largest cities and principal economic centers , El Alto , located on the Altiplano . Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries ( the other is Paraguay ) that lie outside Afro - Eurasia . Bolivia is the largest landlocked country in the Americas . Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of ___MASK95___ , shared by Argentina and Chile . The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts , steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes . Patagonia has two coasts ; a western one towards the Pacific Ocean and an eastern one towards the Atlantic Ocean . ___MASK95___ is a continent located in the western hemisphere , mostly in the southern hemisphere , with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere . It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the model used in nations that speak Romance languages . The reference to ___MASK95___ instead of other regions ( like Latin America or the Southern Cone ) has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics ( in particular , the rise of Brazil ). Torres del Paine National Park is a national park encompassing mountains , glaciers , lakes , and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia . The Cordillera del Paine is the centerpiece of the park . It lies in a transition area between the Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Steppes . The park is located north of Puerto Natales and north of Punta Arenas . The park borders Bernardo O ' Higgins National Park to the west and the Los Glaciares National Park to the north in Argentine territory . " Paine " means " blue " in the native Tehuelche ( Aonikenk ) language and is pronounced " PIE - nay ". Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is a federal republic in the southern half of ___MASK95___ . Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with its neighbor Chile to the west , the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north , Brazil to the northeast , Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east , and the Drake Passage to the south . With a mainland area of , Argentina is the eighth - largest country in the world , the second largest in Latin America , and the largest Spanish - speaking one . The country is subdivided into twenty - three provinces ( singular " provincia ") and one autonomous city (" ciudad autónoma "), Buenos Aires , which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress . The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions , but exist under a federal system . Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western ___MASK95___ . It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia , in the east by Brazil , in the southeast by Bolivia , in the south by Chile , and in the west by the Pacific Ocean . Peru is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river .