Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text

The text related to the cultural heritage 'Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works' has mentioned 'South America' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence Text Source
In the remote desert Pampa, one of the driest deserts on earth, thousands of people lived and worked from the first half of the 19th century to process the largest deposit of saltpeter in the world, producing the fertiliser sodium nitrate that was to transform agricultural land in North and South America, and Europe, and produce great wealth for Chile.
Criterion (ii): The development of the saltpeter industry reflects the combined knowledge, skills, technology, and financial investment of a diverse community of people who were brought together from around South America, and from Europe.