Southern Cone

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Calque of Spanish Cono Sur.

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the Southern Cone

  1. The southern portion of South America, consisting of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, sometimes southern Brazil, São Paulo state and Paraguay.
    • 2004, Nicola Phillips, The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America, Routledge, →ISBN, page 6:
      Some words are therefore in order to clarify why Bolivia is excluded from our definition of the Southern Cone, and by extension from the Southern Cone Model.

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