South America, the fourth (1 large) continent in the world, stretches from Point Gallinas on the Caribbean coast to Cape Horn, (2 southerly) point of Horn Island. Among its features are the Andes mountain range which, at over 7,000 kilometers, is (3 long) the distance from London to Bombay, the world’s (4 high) city, La Paz in Bolivia, and one of the world’s (5 important) resources – the Amazonian rainforest. With an area of seven million square kilometers, this is twelve times (6 big) than France. It is a major source of oxygen and is home to half of all known living species, including the anaconda, the world’s (7 heavy) snake, and the two-toed sloth, (8 slow) animal. Parts of Columbia are among the (9 wet) in the world, while the Atacama Desert in Chile, which has an average of only 0.5 mm of rain year, is (10 dry) place on Earth. Spanish is (11 widely spoken) language.