"Do you like Peeps? Not the candy ones, this one, Calidris canutus rufa! It's a migrating marathoner, spending part of the year at the southern tip of our continent, and then flying all the way to the northern reaches of an adjacent continent to breed. Still don't know which continent we're on? Take out your world atlas. Ours in the continent that is mostly, but not completely, in the hemisphere it shares a name with."

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Cláudio Dias Timm (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

"Feeling sub-tropical? We are too. All the other mainland countries on this continent are either completely or partially within the tropics -- but not ours."

"From this height it's hard see our small but crowded departamento, but it's there along one of the banks of this very wide, metallic river (or is it an estuary?)."

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NASA

"'Ahoy amigos!' Sail on in to meet us! Our city is a major harbor for big and small vessels alike. Be sure to plan for a long visit, because nearly half of the country lives in and around this national capital city, and we all want to show you around!"

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Rosina Peixoto (CC BY-SA 4.0)