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Portuguese is the official language of a population slightly larger than Spanish in South America

@BilCat: You removed my contribution https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=South_America&oldid=prev&diff=1092354589 with the reason "unsourced, contradicts previous sentences" but it does not need to be sourced since it is already done in the infobox of Brazil and South America articles (see under population and you will see Brazil has more than the half of the population from South America). It also does not contradict the previous sentences (Spanish and Portuguese are the most spoken languages in South America + Spanish is official language of most countries), it just adds more details that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, which has more than the half of the population in South America. So I suggest to cancel your revert. --Baptx (talk) 18:55, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

The population for South America is a 2018 estimate, while the population for Brazil is a 2022 estimate. They need to be from the same years, and preferably the same reliable source. BilCat (talk) 19:58, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Population of Argentina is way off

Argentina's population is over 40 million, yet the article lists it as 4.5 million, both in the table and the text in the body. The problem is that it is linked to 45,276,780, which gives a total that is roughly 1/10th of the actual number. This problem is also appears in the Latin Americans article, for the same reason. Does anyone know how to fix the number in 45,276,780? AuH2ORepublican (talk) 19:28, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

The article has been vandalised, so you just correct it.Ttocserp 21:55, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Actually, it wasn't this article that was vandalized, but a case of Argentina's population being edited erroneously in Template:UN_population. I reversed the edit there, and it fixed the problem in this article (and some other ones that also were linked to the template). AuH2ORepublican (talk) 19:16, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

The Iguazu Falls are also Argentine

Gallery - Tourism 80% of the Iguazú Falls are in Argentina and mostly managed there. Can I edit and show that they are also a tourist place in Argentina? In addition to adding another Argentine tourist destination: Mar del Plata. Alan Rib. (talk) 02:10, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

south america

South America is thought to have been first inhabited by humans when people were crossing the Bering Land Bridge (now the Bering Strait) at least 15,000 years ago from the territory that is present-day Russia. They migrated south through North America, and eventually reached South America through the Isthmus of Panama.Amongst the oldest evidence for human presence in South America is the Monte Verde II site in Chile, suggested to date to around 14,500 years ago.From around 13,000 years ago, the Fishtail projectile point style became widespread across South America, with its disappearance around 11,000 years ago coincident with the disappearance of South America's megafauna. Maize was present in northern South America by around 6,000 years ago.By 2000 BC, many agrarian communities had been settled throughout the Andes and the surrounding regions. Fishing became a widespread practice along the coast, helping establish fish as a primary source of food. Irrigation systems were also developed at this time, which aided in the rise of an agrarian society. 77.100.114.184 (talk) 14:25, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

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