South America

Bogota

Colombia's high-altitude Andean capital

Brasilia

Brazil's planned modernist capital, carved from the highland savanna

Buenos Aires

Argentina's capital, a European-flavoured metropolis on the Rio de la Plata

Caracas

Venezuela's capital in a narrow mountain valley

Lima

Peru's capital, the City of Kings on the Pacific desert coast

Medellin

Colombia's reinvented city of eternal spring

Montevideo

Uruguay's easygoing capital on the Rio de la Plata

Quito

Ecuador's capital, a colonial jewel high in the Andes

Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's seaside icon of beaches, mountains, and Carnival

Santiago

Chile's capital, ringed by the snow-capped Andes

Sao Paulo

Brazil's industrial colossus and the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere