Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830, the others being Ecuador...

The Spanish founded the city of Montevideo in modern-day Uruguay in 1726 as a military stronghold, and it soon became...

The Spaniards first explored Suriname in the 16th century, and the English then settled it in the mid-17th century. Suriname...

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under...

Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured...

Several Indigenous groups, principally belonging to the Guarani language family, inhabited the area of modern Paraguay before the arrival of...

Originally a Dutch colony in the 17th century, by 1815 Guyana had become a British possession. The abolition of slavery...

Although first sighted by an English navigator in 1592, the first landing (English) did not occur until almost a century...

What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito -- the...

Colombia was one of three countries that emerged after the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830 -- the others are...

Indigenous groups inhabited central and southern Chile for several thousand years, living in mixed pastoralist and settled communities. The Inca...