About Argentina

It is noted that the name Argentina derives from the Latin argentum that means silver. Argentina is the land of Gauchos, Asado, Mate, Pampas, Tango, and Dulce de leche. Did you know that the name immediately conjures up the image of awesome steaks, passionate men and women and extensive night of eating the top meat of the globe and sipping mate, afterwards.

It is noted that the capital city Buenos Aires is the center of the country in all ways except its geographical location. With the R?o de la Plata, in the east of the country, it is always actually the city that is closest to the Old Continent, and probably the most European city in South America.

Second in South America just to Brazil in size and population, Argentina is known to be a plain, rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean border and the towering Andes peaks. Aconcagua (22,834 ft, 6,960 m) is the highest peak in the globe outside Asia. Argentina is known to be also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay on the north, and by Uruguay and Brazil on the east. Did you know that the northern location is the swampy and partly wooded Gran Chaco, bordering on Bolivia and Paraguay.

South of that are and have always been the rolling, fertile Pampas, that are and have always been rich in agriculture and sheep- and cattle-grazing and support most of the population. Next southward is Patagonia, a region of cool, arid steppes with many wooded and fertile sections.

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