| Name Origin Descriptions | Country |
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| Derived from the name of a local ruler who lived in Panama, which was the southernmost lands Europeans had explored, so they called all lands further south the same name. | |
| From the Guarani language, meaning place of many rivers/lakes. | |
| Derived from the Tainone word for the larger region meaning either 'land of fast-flowing water', 'respectable', or 'the land of many waters'. | |
| Usually taken to be named after a city in Italy, it may come from the similar name for the native people. | |
| Taken from the name of a famous Genoese explorer, the name was first used in reference to all the Americas by Francisco de Miranda. | |
| From the Spanish for the line marking the division between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, which the country straddles. | |
| Officially, the name comes from ____wood, a tree sailors traded to Europe, coming originally from the Latin for 'ember', used to describe the red colour of the wood. | |
| The name of a local river, which comes from the Guarani language, meaning 'river where the painted birds live'. | |
| Popularised by conquistador Diego de Almagro, the origin may come from a corruption of the name of a local tribal chief; or from several other sources. | |
| Named by Antonio Jose de Sucre in honour of the South American freedom fighter. | |
| Comes from the Latin for 'silver', and first used in a 1602 poem by Martin del Barco Centenera. | |
| Derived from the Arawak-speaking Taino's name for the region, which was adopted by the first European settlers at the colony of Marshall's Creek. | |
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