Latin America, also known as Latin America, is a word that refers to that group of countries that are located on the continent, which have the particularity of having Spanish, Portuguese or French as their mother tongue. In other words, its meaning is used to describe the countries and nations that speak the Spanish and Portuguese languages; Noteworthy does not include those countries of Anglo-Saxon origin and culture. The word was used for the first time in 1856 in a conference in Paris of the Chilean writer, philosopher and politician Francisco Bilbao, to later be used again by another writer, but in his poem Las dos Américas, this man was of Colombian origin named José María Torres Caicedo.
The word Latin America encompasses a series of territorial, geographical, cultural and linguistic conceptions. When speaking of Latin America, reference is made to that group of countries intertwined by the history of the conquest and the language, but in addition to a continent marked by the variety and plurality of its traditions, customs, politics, gastronomy, economy, culture and especially for their peoples.
The territory that Latin America encompasses is more than 20 million square kilometers in area, which is equivalent to about 13.5% of the manifested surface of planet earth. Thanks to its extension, Latin America has a great biological and geographical diversity; It is said that we can achieve almost all types of climates in the world, in addition to that there is an abundant variety of species of animals and plants. It is important to say that they can also be found with some of the largest and most important rivers along with a number of mineral resources such as oil, silver, copper and lithium.
Regarding its history, its beginnings go back to the development of the Amerindian peoples during the so-called pre-Columbian era. The beginnings of the process of colonization of the continent were from around 1492 date of the discovery of the American continent by the Spanish, through the Spanish expeditions to America. And it is in the nineteenth century when they were emancipated from their ancient metropolises, that is, from France, Spain and Portugal, and later became independent.
