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U.S.A. POPULATION  Haga clic para modificar el estilo de texto del patrón  Segundo nivel 

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GENERAL INFORMATION  In April 2012 there were 311.999.354 inhabitants.

 The most populous city is New York with more than 8 million people.

 Other major cities include Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix ...


The first inhabitants of the United States


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The most populous city is New York with more than 8 million people.

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MEN AND WOMEN


White Americans are the largest ethnic group, the German-Americans, Irish Americans and Anglo-Americans constitute three of the four largest ethnic groups in the country.

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WEATHER IN U.S.A.


IN GENERAL USA is a very big country. There are five climatic zones with different characteristics.


This is a metereological map 

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ALASKA Polar weather In winter, it’s very cold and there is a lot of snow. There is very little rainfall and it’s snow and there’s ice throughout the year.


FLORIDA Wet subtropical climate It’s very wet and hot all the year


EASTERN U.S.A. Wet weather Four very different seasons Weather changes frequently: cooler in the North and warmer in the South


PACIFIC OCEAN Mild and wet winters Quite dry summers


U.S.A. INNER WEST Mountainous and desert areas and very few rains


United States geography

Continent…………………………. America Region………………………………. North America


Area 

Total: 9.631.418 km2

Earth: 9,161,923 km2

Water: 469.495 km²

Coast line: 19,924 km

Coordinates: 38 ° 00′ N 97 ° 00′ O


 United

States is the second country biggest in Americas after Canada and the third in the world, surpassed by Russia and Canada.

 Located

in the central strip of North America, extends from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast.

 North

(8893 km) World longest unarmed border it shares with Canada and is bordered by Mexico to the South.

 Consists

of 48 contiguous States, more Alaska in the Northwest, and the islands of Hawaii in the Central Pacific.


Borders Territorial: 12,034 km


Maritime claims 

Contiguous zone: 24 mn

Continental shelf: 200 mn

Exclusive economic zone: 200 mn

Territorial sea: 12 mn


Elevation extremes 

Minimum elevation: Death Valley - 86 m

Maximum elevation: Mount McKinley 6,194 m


Hydrography 

In the Great Lakes region: is the largest expanse of not ice-cold fresh water on the planet.

Five lakes are: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

All are among the 173 and 183 meters, except the Ontario, that is one hundred meters further down slope saved by the Niagara Falls.

All of them (except Lake Michigan, surrounded by American territory) are in the border area, so Canada and the United States share their domination and exploitation.

This set of Lakes pours its waters into the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River.


The Mississipi River 

The Mississippi River, together with its tributaries Of the Red River of the North and Missouri River, is the longest river in North America.

If it is only the largest river in the subcontinent and has a maximum width of 1400 meters, with a nearby 30 meters depth. Its course is hilly, with zones of rapids and waterfalls at his birth, but in its low course widens and becomes suitable for navigation. Flow floods are frequent and cause flooding in nearby areas. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico, forming a large delta. Its main tributaries are: Illinois River, Arkansas River, Ohio River, Red River and Missouri River.

The Mississippi River is a very important part of the history, literature and U.S. economy.

Its name means big river in ojibwa Indian language. In the 19th century, steamer with wheels of Spades plowed its waters, making flourish cities like New Orleans, Memphis or St. Louis.

It was also at this time he was when Americans nicknamed Old Man River and Mark Twain used it as the setting for the adventures of its universal character, Tom Sawyer.


Rivers of the Atlantic: 

They flow into the Hudson River, Delaware River and Potomac River (which flows through Washington, D.C., the capital of the country).

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In the Gulf of Mexico flowing rivers Mississippi, San Antonio and Bravo of the North (the latter runs through the States of Colorado and New Mexico, serving border between the U.S. and Mexico to its mouth).


Rivers of the Pacific 

The Gulf flows into the Colorado River (which gets its name from the reddish color of its waters, due to the large amount of sediment that drag from his birth in the Rocky Mountains).

Also include the Columbia River (which flows through Canada and the U.S., forming an estuary at its mouth) and its tributary the Snake River (which is born in the Yellowstone National Park and has a nival regime.

In Idaho, the Snake River forms the Canyon of the Snake and the waterfalls Shoshone, saving a drop of 65 metres). In Alaska, the Yukon River crosses the peninsula and flows into the Bering Sea.


Other lakes 

Highlight the Great Salt Lake in Utah

Lake Champlain between New York State and Quebec;

Lake Okeechobee in Florida and the Salton Sea in California

The United States has many areas for the use and enjoyment of the public. These include national parks, national monuments, national forests, fish and Wildlife Service, among other things.


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SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES Sports are an important part of the culture of the United States. The four most popular team sports all developed in North America:

American football

Basketball

Baseball

Ice hockey.


Olympic Games The United States has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Olympic Games, except the 1980 Summer Olympics, which it boycotted. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States.

The United States has won more gold and overall medals than any other country in the Summer Games and overall. The US also has the second-most overall medals at the Winter games, trailing only Norway. Earlier United States mainly conceded to Soviet Union at summer Games and to Soviet Union, Norway, East Germany at winter Games only and now strongly fights with China only at summer Games. The United States is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Winter Olympics, and has won the total medal count at Lake Placid in the 1932 Winter Olympics and at Vancouver in the 2010 Winter Olympics. During the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States set a record for most total medals of any country at a single Winter Olympics.


American football American football, known within the country simply as football, has the most participants of any sport at both high school and college levels.

Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest annual sporting event held in the United States. The Super Bowl itself is always among the highest-rated programs annually in the Nielsen ratings. Some notable players include Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Larry Csonka, Roger Staubach, Walter Payton, Brett Favre, Dick Butkus, Jack Youngblood, Joe Greene, Alan Page, Troy Aikman, Joe Montana, Otto Graham, Emmitt Smith, John Elway, Bart Starr, Fran Tarkenton, Kurt Warner, Lawrence Taylor and Johnny Unitas. Some notable current NFL players include Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Ray Lewis, Tom Brady, Brian Urlacher, Adrian Peterson, Aaron Rodgers, Tony Romo, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, Jared Allen, Nick Mangold, Wes Welker, Victor Cruz and Andre Johnson.


Basketball Basketball was invented in 1891 by Canadian-born physical education teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts. Of those Americans citing their favorite sport, basketball is ranked second (counting amateur levels) behind football. However, in regards to professional sports, basketball, or the NBA, is ranked third. The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as the NBA, is the world's premier men's professional basketball league and one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. It contains 30 teams (29 teams in the U.S. and 1 in Canada) that play an 82-game season from October to June. After the regular season, eight teams from each conference compete in the playoffs for the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. The American Basketball Association, active from 1967 until 1976, when it merged with the NBA, was the last major competitor of the NBA.


Ice Hockey Ice hockey is another popular sport in the United States. Originating from North America, the sport is commonly referred to simply as "hockey." In the U.S. the game is most popular in regions of the country with a cold winter climate, namely New England, the northern half of the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, including the states of Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, North Dakota, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. However, since the 1990s hockey has become increasingly popular in the Sun Belt due in large part to the expansion of the National Hockey League to cities like Anaheim, California; Tampa, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Phoenix, Arizona. Although hockey does not enjoy the same popularity as football, baseball and basketball in the U.S., one of the nation's greatest ever sporting moments came during the 1980 Winter Olympics when the U.S. hockey team beat the Soviet Union 4–3 in the first game of the medal round before going on to beat Finland to claim the gold medal. The game has since been called the "Miracle on Ice". Over the course of the last few years, many Americans have become more familiar with the great excitement, speed, and physical play of hockey, and it is gaining on the NBA in terms of popularity and is slowly becoming a more familiar sport to the average American family.


FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES


Idaho

Alaska

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Dakota del Sur

Dakota del Norte

Connecticut

Colorado


Carolina del Norte

Carolina del Sur

Illinois

Florida

Delaware

Maine

Hawai

Louisiana

Georgia

Kentucky


Kansas

MĂ­chigan

Iowa

Maryland

Minnesota

Misuri

Indiana

Massachusetts

Mississipi

Nueva York


Nebraska

Montana

Nevada

Nuevo Hampshire

Nueva Jersey

Rhode Island

Pensilvania

Oregon

Oklahoma

Ohio


Nuevo MĂŠxico

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Wyoming

Wisconsin

Washington

Virginia Occidental

Virginia


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Work performed by: Iván Hernández

Eva Beltrán

Lucía Aranguren

Cristian Álvarez 

Joel Barcina


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