Main economic activities of South America are :
- Aborigines called Red Indians reside in the 'selvas' near the river Amazon. They have primitive lifestyle and they are involved in fishing and hunting.
- The central region is not suitable for agriculture and settlement as it lies far away from the sea.
- A sheep like animal called Llama is reared in western Andes mountain range.
- Vast gold mine has been explored in the Atacama Desert where industries have been established in European investment.
- Brazil is the world's largest exporter of coffee, sugarcane an cocoa.
- Vast temperate grassland called Pampas lies in the Argentina. It is world known for cattle rearing and agriculture. Argentina earns a good amount of foreign currency from meat, wool, wheat.