South America is a land of contrasts and excess. It is home to the longest mountain range in the world, the largest rainforest, the most powerful river, the driest desert and the greatest biodiversity on the planet.
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The heart of the country is home to the oldest geological structure on the continent, the tepuys as they were formerly called by the Indians and today by geologists like Nelson Joachim Reis.
Then the future South America assembled with other lands and then separated from them at least three times... So since when can we talk about South America. For Martin Bailey Pepper for 900 million years and this because all the stones from all the rivers on the continent are found on this date... And he verified this by traveling 50,000 kilometers on a motorbike.
A memory of the last collision between South America and Gondwana, the study site of Renata Schmitt, Sugar Loaf sits enthroned in Rio, like others who remained in Africa where Nicole Ulrich works.
Today's South America is the Andes, a particular mountain range as Thierry Sempere explains. As for the Amazon forest, it is tectonics that has made it the largest forest today and the one benefiting from the greatest diversity, an infinite hunting ground for Pierre Olivier Antoine.
Director: Alexis de Favitski
© THE COMPAGNIE DES TAXI-BROUSSE - 2014