Culture areas of the Americas

Culture areas of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of North America have been classified, by ethnographers, into regional cultural areas.

North America

* 1.1 Arctic
* 1.2 Subarctic
* 1.3 California
* 1.4 Northeast Woodlands
* 1.5 Great Basin
* 1.6 Plateau
* 1.7 Northwest Coast
* 1.8 Plains
* 1.9 Southeast
* 1.10 Southwest
* 1.11 Aridoamerica
* 1.12 Mesoamerica
* 1.1 Caribbean

South America

* 2.1 Andean
* 2.2 Sub-Andean
* 2.3 Western Amazon
* 2.4 Central Amazon
* 2.5 Eastern and Southern Amazon
* 2.6 Gran Chaco
* 2.7 Southern Cone

ee also

* Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
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