CEPAL have always been a great supporter of Latin American demographers. The Population Division of CEPAL, the Latin American Demographic Center (CELADE), has been doing an important work gathering and analyzing data on South American Urbanization since 1950.
I'm talking about the Depualc Project (Spatial Distribution of the Population and Urbanization in Latin America and the Caribbean ) and you can check the data here.
South American Urbanization Rates, By major administrative divisions, 1950 - 2000