Latin America Crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Flag
  2. 5. an institution with clear substantive and geographical limits, bound by explicit rules, and agreed on by governments
  3. 8. a large group of people who share a cultural and regional origin but are living away from their traditional homeland.
  4. 10. an artifical coneying for water
  5. 11. any of several large Central and South American trogons of the genus Pharomachrus, having golden-green and scarlet plumage
  6. 13. a person who is out to conquer new territory
  7. 15. a Mexican artificial meadow or garden reclaimed from a lake or pond by piling soil dredged from the bottom onto a mat of twigs and planting thereon.
  8. 16. and burn a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land
Down
  1. 1. a styliezed picture of an object representing a word, Syable, or sound , found in aceint Egyptian and other writing systems
  2. 3. responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the wellbeing of local people and involves interpretation and education
  3. 4. When migrants send home part of their earnings in the form of either cash or goods to support their families
  4. 6. system a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
  5. 7. a barrier used to regulate or hold back water from a river, lake, or even the ocean
  6. 9. a sib or clan that constituted the basic socioeconomic unit of Inca society
  7. 11. an ancient Inca device for recording information
  8. 12. a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group
  9. 14. a facility for observing or monitoring environmental conditions or phenomena on Earth or in space