Cities in South America by Clue

Such as the former capital of the Inca Empire

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Clue	City
Home to the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema	Río de Janeiro
Augusto Pinochet launched a coup in this city in 1973	Santiago
The capital of French Guiana	Cayenne
The Northernmost megacity in South America	Bogota
The largest city in the Amazon Rainforest	Manaus
Shakira is from this Colombian city on the Caribbean	Barranquilla
Bolivia’s largest city	Santa Cruz
Venezuelan city on a tidal bay of the same name	Maracaibo
It was founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535	Lima
Bolivian city famous for having the largest silver deposits in the world	Potosí
“The Paris of South America”	Buenos Aires
The Easternmost major city in South America	Recife
The first ever city to host the FIFA World Cup	Montevideo
Pablo Escobar led this city’s cartel	Medellín
Ecuador's largest port and urban area	Guayaquil
The financial capital of Brazil	São Paulo
The former capital of the Inca Empire	Cusco
Nicolás Maduro was abducted from this city by the US military in 2026	Caracas
The highest elevated capital city in the world	La Paz
It’s name means “Joyful Harbor” in Portuguese	Porto Alegre