You are already getting to know Argentina,whose name comes from the Latin Argentum,that means silver.
This title goes back to the Spanish Conquerors who settled in this region in 1524
In this territory you´ll find three main kinds of landcapes:montains,plains and plateaus.The country is not only home of the highest summit in America (Aconcagua 6.969 m),but also if the widest river in the world (Rio de la Plata 220 km in it´s mouth)

Argentina has mild warm climate,but to yhe North,there is large subtropical area and to the South the cold climate prevails.Buenos Aires is mainly humid; summers are warm (28ºC average) ,and winters are not so cold,with temperatures ranging from the 3ºC to the 8ºC.

In this country you may enjoy the dense forests of Tucumán and Misiones,the sounds of silence in the Nothern antiplano,the water falls from up to 80 meters in the Iguazí Falls,as well as the penetrating uproar of thaw in the Perido Moreno Glaciar.

You may also descry the touching flight of condor above the impressive Cordillera de los Andes (The Andes Mountain Range) ,or the courting of the Franca wale in the Valdes Peninsula .
Argentina ,a facinating place to know and enjoy ;you will sure to come back to the country of the six continents.

• Technical date
  
• Territory 3.761.274 km2 including the South Atlantic Islands and Antartic Sector
  
• Territorial Extension N-S 3.799Km,W-E 1.423Km
  
• Population 37.000.000 estimate in year 2000
  
• From of Govermment Federal multiparty republic with a bicameral Legislative Power.
  
• Independence From Spain,July 9,1816
  
• Main Citys Buenos Aires Capital 3.000.000
  Córdoba 1.345.000
  Rosario: 1.230.000
  Mendoza: 880.000
  La Plata:, 724.000
• Official Language
  Spanish,some minorities speak quechua,guaraní and other aboriginal languages.
• Ethnical Composicion ,European ancestry 85%,others 15%
• Life Expectation Men 69,women 76 years old.
• Religious Filiation Roman Catholics 92.8%
  Protestant and Evangelic,Jewish and Islamic minorities.
  
• Nobel Awards
  Carlos Saavedra Lamas-Peace ,1936
  Bernardo Houssay-Medicine, 1947
  Luis Federico Leilor- Chemistry,1970
  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel- Peace, 1980
  César Milstein- Biology, 1984

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