Explore South America

This is a new addition to my physical map series that also includes Africa, Island Southeast Asia, High Mountain Asia, North America, and the Circumpolar North. These and many other maps are available on my website for free .

I hope that you learn as much about South America's varied geography as I did while making this map.

Tom Patterson

November 3, 2025

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Physical Map of South America

Terms of use

The Physical Features of South America map is in the public domain. Use it any way that you want. You are not required to cite the map.

Contact me

I will periodically update the map. Please let me know about major features to include or any problems that you find.

Thanks!

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Printing and online viewing

High-quality JPEG image, 350 DPI, 33 MB

The map measures 116 x 88 centimeters (45.5 x 34.7 inches) at 1:7,000,000-scale.

Acknowledgment

I am grateful to Carl Churchill, Alex Fries, Bernie Jenny, Carlos Nelson, and Gabriel Zanlorenssi for making helpful suggestions and catching errors. Any problems that may still exist are entirely on me. Additional thanks to Alex Fries who compiled South American rivers for Natural Earth v.6, the dataset from which this map was built.

Version 1.0, Novemberr 3, 2025  Change Log