map and walkthrough
South America Trek is a MS-DOS adventure game and © 1986 by Conrad Button and ButtonWare, Inc.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on the former shareware release of the game.
Note: Specific location names are not used in the game; the names of locations on this map are my own invention, based on the room descriptions.
| Devils Island | ||||||||||||||||||
| s↓ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jose's Trading Post (torch) | Atlantic Ocean | |||||||||||||||||
| go trading post↑↓n | s↓ | |||||||||||||||||
| Maracaibo lowlands | — | Caracas | — | Venezuela plains | — | George- town | — | Para- maribo | — | Cayenne (matches) | — | Fr. Guinea coast | ||||||
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| Venezuela oil fields (oil) | — | Venezuela highlands | Sandstone plateau | — | Suriname forest (bauxite) | — | Hilly interior | |||||||||||
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| Columbia coast | — | Bogata | — | Columbia grass- lands | Brazil jungle | Brazil jungle | — | Brazil jungle (sloth) | — | Brazil jungle | ||||||||
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| Quito, Ecuador | — | Andes Mountain Range | Columbia forest (machete) | — | Brazil jungle (iguana) | — | Clearing (anaconda) | |||||||||||
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| Ecuador coast | Amazon River, north bank (piranha) | |||||||||||||||||
| | | swim river↓↑n | |||||||||||||||||
| Peru coast |
Swimming across | |||||||||||||||||
| s↓↑swim river | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon River, south bank | Iron mine (iron) | |||||||||||||||||
| | | | | | | d↑↓u | |||||||||||||||
| Peru fishing village (anchovatas) | Sierra region, Peru |
Brazil jungle | — | Edge of jungle | — | Brazilian highlands | ||||||||||||
| | | n↑↓go trading post | |||||||||||||||||
| Lima, Peru | — | — | Montana plains | — | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Deep pit (gold) | Raoul's Trading Post (gun + flares) |
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| | | | | go pit↑↓u | ||||||||||||||||
| Saline basin, Chile | Machu Picchu | — | Inca temple (chest) | — | Brazilia (teacher) | — | Brazil highlands (pit) |
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| Lake Titicaca, north | Bolivia valleys | — | Oriente of Bolivia | Parena Plateau, Paraguay | ||||||||||||||
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| Copper mine (copper) | ←d u→ |
— | Lake Titicaca, south | — | La Paz, Bolivia | — | Antiplano, Bolivia | — | ||||||||||
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| Aconcagua Mt. peak (key) | Gran Chaco forests | — | Ascancion (bucket) | — | Chaco Borel, Paraguay | — | ||||||||||||
| | | ↑ride llama↓ | | | ||||||||||||||||
| Santiago (billboard) | — | Andes, Argentina (llama) | — | Pampas, Argentina (gaucho) | — | Buenos Aires | — | Uruguay grasslands | — | Montevideo | ||||||||
| | | go trading post↓↑n | |||||||||||||||||
| Chile forest | Pepe's Trading Post (shovel) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Southern tip of Chile | — | Plateaus of the Patagoria (oars) | ||||||||||||||||
| row rowboat↓↑ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Isle of Cape Horn (sub) | ||||||||||||||||||
(Go to the mainland, get matches and bauxite.)
i. exa paper. exa compass. exa raft. take raft. s. s.
w. get matches. w. s. get bauxite.
(Trade the bauxite at Jose's for a torch.)
w. n. w. w. go trading post. read sign. give bauxite. n.
(Get the copper ore.)
w. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. light torch. d. get copper. u.
(Trade the copper at Pepe's for a shovel.)
s. read billboard. e. e. e. e. e. go trading post. read sign. give copper. n.
(Get the bucket, gold, and teacher.)
w. w. w. n. e. get bucket. e. e. n. go pit. dig pit. look. get gold. u.
w. exa teacher. say hi. exa teacher. say hi.
(Get the oil with the bucket.)
w. w. w. n. w. n. n. get oil.
(Trade the gold for a bola from the gaucho.)
s. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. e. e. exa gaucho. get bola. give gold. exa bola.
(Ride the llama up the mountain and get the key. CAUTION: The llama disappears on the trip down.)
w. exa llama. throw bola. ride llama. get key. ride llama.
(Unlock and oil the chest and get the net.)
w. n. n. e. s. e. unlock chest. open chest. oil chest. open chest. look. get net. drop key.
(Catch the anchovatas with the net.)
w. n. w. n. get anc.
(Get the machete so you can hack through the jungle.)
n. n. n. n. e. e. s. get machete.
(Feed the piranha and swim across the Amazon River.)
e. exa iguana. e. exa anaconda. s. exa piranha. feed piranha. swim river. s.
(Get the iron ore, then trade it at Raoul's for a flare gun and three flares.)
s. e. e. d. get iron. u. w. go trading post. read sign. give iron. n.
(Get the oars.)
w. n. swim river. n. n. w. w. n. w. w. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. s. e. get oars.
(Row to Cape Horn and signal the sub.)
w. untie rowboat. row rowboat. signal sub.
(Answer the six trivia questions and win. Answers must be in lowercase. If you're on your last flare,
Miss Diddlemeyer will whisper most of the answers to you.)
andes. amazon. lake titicaca. brazil. lima. oil.
My Walkthroughs of other ButtonWare games
The Asian Challenge * Avenger of Rubicon * Castaway * Dark Continent * Nebula * Raiders of the Star Temple * Red Planet * Sanctuary * South America Trek * Special Agent * Time Traveller