Spain
Flamenco Flamenco  Sevillanas a dos Guitarras Flamenco - Camaron	Music from the region of Andalusia, southern part of Spain
Common to many areas
Pasodoble "España, mi bella España" - Mariachi Garibaldi	Of Spanish heritage, the Pasodoble is heard as an intro or as a change of mood in dance parties in Spain, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and Colombia which have one thing in common: they allow bullfights, which are banned, for example, in Argentina.
Tropical Colombian "La palomita" - Los Titanes Peruvian "La colegiala" - Rodolfo y su tipica Bolivian "El pavo y la pava" "La cerveza" (a "classic") Venezuelan "Ay amor" - Los Melódicos "Ella es" - Los Fantasmas del Caribe	In Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia also called tropical andina; in Venezuela, tropical tecnopop.
Salsa Caribbean "Yo no soy mentiroso" - Monguito Colombian "Una aventura" - Grupo Niche "La negra no quiere" - Grupo Niche	Modernized way of playing Afro-Cuban music featuring reinforced brass and percussion sections.
Mexico and Central America
Corrida (Ranchera) Mexican "El novillo despuntado" - Las Jilguerillas "Es demasiado tarde" - Ana Gabriel	Corrido is also known as Ranchera
Tejano Mexican "El Güero Polkas" - Flaco Jiménez	Tejano is also known as tex-mex. The late Selena is perhaps the most well known of all tejano artists.
Tonada Nicaraguan "Clodomiro el Ñajo" - Carlos Mejía Godoy y Los de Palacagüina	Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Caribbean Basin and Surrounding Areas
Danzon Cuban "Rey de Reyes" - Orquesta Siglo XX	Old-time formal Cuban dance music.
Son Cuba "Son de la loma" - Trío Matamoros "Cómo se baila el son" - La India de Oriente	son originated in Cuba, and is now widely heard all over Latin America.
Rumba "El callejón de los rumberos" - Yoruba Andabo	Afro-Cuban percussion and vocal style.
Mambo "Mambo No. 8" - Pérez Prado y su orquesta	Cuban big-band style.
Cha Cha Cha "Tres lindas cubanas" - Orquesta Aragón	A Cuban "classic".
Merengue "O lo matas tú o lo mato yo" - Jossie Estéban y La Patrulla 15 "Compadre Pedro Juan" - Ramón García, his saxophone and his Conjunto Típico Cibao "La bilirrubina" - Juan Luis Guerra y los 4-40 "A Pedir Su Mano" - Juan Luis Guerra y los 4-40	From the Dominican Republic. The Ramón García sample is sort of a second national anthem of the Dominican Republic, a beautiful rendering of a "classic"
Bachata "Gotas de pena" - Alex Bueno	A popular midtempo acoustic/electric style from the Dominican Republic.
Cumbia Colombian "La pollera colorá" - Pedro Salcedo y su orquesta Mexican "Que bello" - La Sonora Tropicana	cumbia is popular in Colombia and Panama, with regional variants in Peru, Bolivia, Central America and Mexico. The Mexican and Central American cumbia is faster than its Colombian counterpart.
Vallenato "Tierra mala" - Los Chiches Vallenatos Sabanero "El guayabo de La Ye" - Lisandro Meza	A Colombian style. sabanero refers to the area west of the Magdalena river, as the vallenato usually referred to is the one which orginated in the area east of the river, in the region of Valledupar.
Punta Punta cumbia - Grupo Kazzabe Fiesta - Banda Blanca	This rhythm is popular along the Caribbean coastline of Central America, especially Honduras.
Andean Regions of Ecuador, Peru & Bolivia
Pasillo "Adiós mi vida" - Los Imbayas "Latidos" - Hermanos Castro y Bolívar Ortiz	The Ecuadorian pasillo is very popular in northern Peru.
Sanjuanito "Sanjuanito de otros tiempos" - Los Corazas "Longuita mía" - Hermanos Castro y Bolívar Ortiz	Ecuadorian; Sanjuanito, this style is also found in Northern Peru.
Huayno "Sueño de mi esperanza" - Los Reales de Cajamarca "Amor pendiente" - Los Reales de Cajamarca "Flor de Huancayo" - Grupo Norte Potosí sample by Los Pacharacos (in Quechua) Bolivian "Tu partida" - Grupo Norte Potosí	A style familiar to any listener of Peruvian radio. Also popular in Bolivia and Ecuador.
ChiCha "El serranito" - Los Shapis "Maldigo la hora" - Princesita Mery singing with Pintura Roja group	Modern urban Peruvian blend of huayno and cumbia.
Lambada "Llorando se fue" - Los K'jarkas	This is the original version, a Bolivian saya, which was readapated in the early 80´s by the Peruvian group Cuarteto Continental and a couple of years later presented internationally as "Lambada" by the Brazilian group Kaoma. In a subsequent lawsuit, Gonzalo and Ulises Hermoza, Los K´jarkas, claimed and gained the authorship of the tune.
Andean Valleys & Regions East of the Cordillera
Guabina/Torbellino "Agáchate el sombrerito" - Los Tolimenses Pasillo "Mis flores negras" - Espinoza y Bedoya	An old Colombian style, seldom heard nowadays.
Joropo "Kirpa" - Los Copleros del Arauca	From the plains (llanos) of Venezuela and Eastern Colombia, joropo and pasaje are referred to as música llanera.
Bambuco "Brisas del Torbes" - Ofelia Ramón Pasaje "Sinfonía del palmar" - Juan Vicente Torrealba	Venezuela and Columbia.
Carrilera "La Cuchilla" - Hermanas Calle	From Colombia, a local type of corrido, also known as guasca.
Bolivia, Northern Chile, NW Argentina
Bailecito sample by Grupo Norte Potosí	A Bolivian style, featuring the Bolivian charango instrument.
Zamba "Luna tucumana" - Los Chalchaleros	The zamba is at the core of Argentinian folklore.
Chamame sample by Raúl Barbosa	From the province of Corrientes, Argentina.
Candombe "Yo Tambien" - Grupo del Cuareim	Candombe is a typical Afro-Uruguayan style from the "Rio de la Plata" (River Plate), and a living tradition. It also co-existed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but in the XIX century and due to war and other factors the Afro-Argentinean community disappeared.
Milonga "La puñalada" - Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Típica   Tango "El entrerriano" - Orquesta Nicolás D'Alessandro	Argentina and Uruguay