Cultural areas of North American people at the time of European contact.

The indigenous peoples of North America have been classified, by ethnographers, into regional cultural areas. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States. A cultural area or culture area is a Region ( Area) with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities ( Culture

North America

• 1. 1 Arctic
• 1. The Arctic is the Region around the Earth 's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. 2 Subarctic
• 1. The Subarctic is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic and covering much of Alaska, Canada and 3 California
• 1. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. 4 Northeast Woodlands
• 1. 5 Great Basin
• 1. The Great Basin is a large arid region of the western United States. 6 Plateau
• 1. In Geology and Earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting 7 Northwest Coast
• 1. The British Columbia Coast is Canada 's western continental coastlines 8 Plains
• 1. 9 Southeast
• 1. 10 Southwest
• 1. 11 Aridoamerica
• 1. Aridoamerica was a broad cultural area in pre-Columbian North America used to describe the northern region of Mexico, in contrast to Mesoamerica (the south 12 Mesoamerica
• 1. Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Mesoamérica is a Region extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, defined 1 Caribbean

South America

• 2. The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting 1 Andean
• 2. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. 2 Sub-Andean
• 2. 3 Western Amazon
• 2. 4 Central Amazon
• 2. 5 Eastern and Southern Amazon
• 2. 6 Gran Chaco
• 2. The Gran Chaco ( Quechua chaqu, "hunting land" dubbed by some as "the last South American frontier" is a sparsely populated hot and 7 Southern Cone

See also

• Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Indigenous languages of the Americas: North America