Southern Cone

Southern Cone Ethnic geography

The term Southern Cone (Spanish: Cono Surcode: es is deprecated , Portuguese: Cone Sul) refers to a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, below the Tropic of Capricorn. Due to geographical affinities, natural, economic and social, the Southern Cone is usually understood as the region that includes all of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the southern states of Brazil (and sometimes part of São Paulo state, because have several features in common: proximity, the high rate of industrialization and urbanization and the high GDP). In rare exceptions - just because geographical reasons - sometimes also includes Paraguay and southern Bolivia, although both have fundamentally different characteristics of other countries (such as standards of living, industrialization, ethnicity, etc.)

Major Cities

The Southern Cone at night. City lights show where many people live

City	Country	Population
São Paulo	Brazil	10,927,985
Santiago	Chile	5,428,590
Buenos Aires	Argentina	2,995,397
Curitiba^[1]	Brazil	1,828,092
Montevideo	Uruguay	1,668,335
Porto Alegre	Brazil	1,488,252

Southern Cone Media

Regions counted to the Southern Cone* regions included in all forms*
Köppen Climate Zone Classification map of Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Falkland Islands
Köppen climate classification of South Brazil and São Paulo.
Planisphere of moderate latitudes in which the equivalent location of most of the Southern Cone can be observed as if it was in the Northern Hemisphere. The highest latitudes of the Southern Cone overlap among others with Southeast Alaska in North America, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Northern Germany, Poland and Belarus in Europe, and the Altai Mountains and Lake Baikal, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in Asia.
Mate, as shown in the picture, is a typical beverage from the Southern Cone.
A history of Catholicism has left landmarks like the Churches of Chiloé (pictured) in the Southern Cone
Population density of the Southern Cone by first-level national administrative divisions. Population/km2
Satellite images of the Southern Cone month by month.
The extensive temperate prairies of the Pampas in the center of Argentina.