GEOG 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peruvian Amazon
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Geog 1700 - lecture 10 - part 4. Latin america: environmental regions, population regions, cultural regions, political regions, economic and social regions, environmental regions. Oil in mexico and northern south america is important and many countries are developing natural gas deposits. New gas pipelines will cut across the amazon basin. Resource exploration and exploitation in the peruvian amazon is not always welcome. Major ri(cid:448)er basi(cid:374)s for(cid:373) three (cid:373)ajor e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal regio(cid:374)s the ri(cid:448)ers flo(cid:449) fro(cid:373) the western highlands toward the atlantic. Agricultural production on the west coast of south america is strongly tied to altitudinal changes. El nino is a change in water temperature that has a significant impact on climate i(cid:374) the regio(cid:374) o(cid:374)e is occurri(cid:374)g (cid:374)o(cid:449) ((cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)4-2016) Environmental problems in the region include coastal and river pollution, but problems of deforestation are of particular international concern. The deforestation is caused especially by agricultural land expansion (slash-and-burn), but also by lumbering and mining.
