Metro populations in South America

São Paulo, Brazil - Favela, a photo by Tom Filho on Flickr.

Metropolitan populations - city plus suburbs - in South America:

1 São Paulo, Brazil 20,831,058
2 Buenos Aires, Argentina 14,598,065
3 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12,128,429
4 Bogotá, Colombia 8,423,837
5 Lima, Peru 8,000,111
6 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 5,731,826
7 Santiago, Chile 5,196,846
8 Caracas, Venezuela 4,478,851
9 Porto Alegre, Brazil 4,076,158
10 Salvador, Brazil 3,904,528
11 Recife, Brazil 3,843,250
12 Curitiba, Brazil 3,571,695
13 Fortaleza, Brazil 3,511,954