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South America is a continent situated entirely in the western hemisphere and mostly in the southern hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.

As part of the Americas like North America, South America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a New World unknown to Europeans.

South America has an area of 17,840,000 km² (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. As of 2005, its population was estimated at more than 371,000,000. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America).

LINKS and REFERENCE

• Less than 4% of poll to be counted (364,000 votes), Correa's lead is more than 850,000 Bloomberg

• musicajoven.org Fundation for Independent Music Development

• Presidencia de la República (official government site)

• Ecuador at the Open Directory Project

• http://www.ecuadormipais.org Organization of Young Professionals from Ecuador

• http://gum.ec/ Ecuador Macintosh User Group (spanish)

• GNU Wikipedia free license

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