• United States.  Central Intelligence Agency.  The World Factbook --  https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• Country Studies (Library of Congress.  Federal Research Division) -- http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
  
• Infoplease.  Countries of the World -- http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
• [in Spanish] Guía del mundo -- http://www.guiadelmundo.org.uy/cd/intro.html

• A working definition of Latin America --  http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Latin%20America
• Hernández Montoya, Roberto.  "The Nameles Continent."  Latin America: An Impractical Handbook  [Note:  This reading selection ends at the subheading "Back to basics."] -- http://www.analitica.com/bitblioteca/roberto/handbook.asp#TheNamelessContinent 
• New World Lands in Print: New Geographies -- http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/lands/geographies.html
  

• GeoNet Names Server -- http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
  
• Political map of Mexico -- http://www.mapasdemexico.net/mexico-country.shtml
• Political map of the Caribbean -- http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/carib.htm
• Political map of Central America -- http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/centralamerica.html
• Political map of South America -- http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/southamerica.html
• Population density -- North America, South America, Caribbean -- ftp://ftpserver.ciesin.org/pub/data/Grid_Pop_World/total_cov/gif/latdensraw.gif
• Topographic map of South America -- http://infoweb2.newsbank.com/maps/findmaps.pl?term=South+America&type=Hypsometric
• Climactic map of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America -- http://www.cnr.vt.edu/boyer/geog1014/TOPICS/119Mid_am/Midam.htm 
• Climactic map of South America -- http://www.cnr.vt.edu/boyer/geog1014/TOPICS/120S_am/Southam.htm

• International  Organization for Standardization (ISO).  English Country Names and Code Elements (ISO  3166) -- http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html
• Geonames.de [provides official name of countries and translation to all major languages] -- http://www.geonames.de/
• List of Country Name Etymologies -- http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20country%20name%20etymologies
• Latin America: Country Names and Terms of Nationality -- http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~swohlmut/lis4930/country_names.html

• The Shatterbelts of the Americas -- http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=415
  
• Mexico and the Borderlands
• Border Information Clearinghouse -- http://americaspolicy.org/clearinghouse.html
• Frontera Norte Sur -- http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/index.html
• The South Texas Border, 1900-1920 -- http://runyon.lib.utexas.edu/
• The Borderlands Encyclopedia -- http://www.utep.edu/border/
  
• Central America and the Caribbean
• Caribbean Islands (Library of Congress Country Studies) -- http://countrystudies.us/caribbean-islands/
• Central America: A Portrait -- http://centralamerica.ms.dk/maportuk.htm
• Central America and Guyana -- http://www.hist.unt.edu/web_resources/latin_central.htm
  
• Andean Region
• The Andean Mountains -- http://www.gci275.com/peru/geo.shtml
• A Guide to Andean Countries -- http://www.ddg.com/LIS/aurelia/titpag.htm
• Cultures of the Andes -- http://www.andes.org/bookmark.html
  
• Amazonia and Brazil
• The Amazon Basin -- http://www.amazonian-fish.co.uk/indexgeog.html
• A Brief History of Amazon Conservation -- http://amazongis.org/library/conservationhistory.html
• Brazil in Brief -- http://www.brazil.org.uk/page.php?cid=1315
  
• Southern Cone
• El Sur del Sur (Argentina) -- http://www.surdelsur.com/indexingles.html
• History of Uruguay -- http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/History-of-Uruguay
• History of Paraguay -- http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/History-of-Paraguay
• Chile: History and Culture -- http://www.interknowledge.com/chile/chilehistory.htm
  

• Languages of the Americas (Ethnologue) -- http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Americas
• Mexico / Central America
• Languages and Cultures of Present-day Mexico -- http://www.sil.org/mexico/23i-Languages.htm
  
• Language Families in Mexico and Central America -- http://members.lycos.nl/Shades/nativeamericans/lang10.htm
• South America
• South American Languages -- http://www.athenapub.com/salang1.htm
• Andean Region (Aymara & Quechua)
• An introduction to the language, history, culture and religion of the Aymara people (in Spanish) -- http://www.aymara.org/histo_eng.php
• An Overview of Quechua -- http://www.shef.ac.uk/q/quechua/i_ABOUT.HTM
  
• Paraguay (Guaraní)
• Guaraní Language, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_language
• Tangara tangara (poetry in Guaraní with sound files) -- http://www.romanistik.uni-mainz.de/guarani/tangara/tangara_tangara.htm
  
• Mapuche (Chile)
• The Mapuche Nation -- http://www.mapuche-nation.org/english/main/feature/m_nation.htm
• Huenún: Poesía para recuperar la memoria -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_3800000/3800149.stm

Instructor:
Sonia Ramírez Wohlmuth, Instructor
School of Library and Information Science
World Language Education
University of South Florida

Office: CIS 2041
Telephone: 813-974-6837
Email: swohlmut@cas.usf.edu