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===Ethnic groups===
===Ethnic groups===
===Languages===
===Languages===
The main languages spoken are Spanish and Portuguese. The most spoken native languages are Quechua in Peru and Bolivia and Guaraní in Paraguay. Mapudungun exist in the southern part of Chile but is not spoken by a majority.
===Religion===
===Religion===
The region is historically and culturally [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], however in the last decades [[Evangelicalism]] has been on the rise specially on Brazil and Chile as well as [[Atheism]]. Chile, Argentina and Uruguay are the most secular countries of the region.
Peru remains one of the most religious countries of the continent being strongly Catholic with a tradition in the indigenous people that goes back to the Spanish Empire. Cuzco city has a religious painting style that is unique and incorporates Andean elements to the paintings.
===Education===
===Education===
The Spanish Empire built universities in the region which still exist today, as well as new ones.
===Health===
===Health===
===Demography===
===Demography===
The region is has mostly mestizos, which is the combination of Amerindians with Spaniards, as well as Castizos, that is the same but with more European heritage. The northern part of South America historically have more Black People as slave plantations were implemented (against the law of the Empire). Some communities have immigrated to the region such as Welch people to Chubut Province in Argentina, Germans in Llanquihue zone and Valdivia in Chile, Mass migrations from Italians and French people to Argentina in the first part of the XX Century. Italians in Peru and Croats in the [[Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region|Magallanes Region]] of Chile.
==Economy and Commerce==
==Economy and Commerce==
===Industry===
===Industry===