Argentina

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Argentina
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Quick Facts

• located in the Southern Cone of South America
• 2nd largest country in South America
• 8th largest in the world
• 42 million people
• 2.7 million sq km
• population density 15 people per sq km
• diverse geography and climate

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6 Major Regions

• Northwest
• Gran Chaco
• La Mesopotamia
• Cuyo
• Pampas
• Patagonia

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Argentine Northwest

• Mostly temperate, low industrialization/urbanizati
  on
• Mostly agricultural
• Small population
• Popular with tourists
• 5 different characteristics
• humid eastern mountains
• fertile valleys
• dry canyons
• Andes Mountains
• high plateaus

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Gran Choco

• Few inhabitants, roads
• Hot, semi-dry, lowland region
• Not much rainfall limited agriculture
• Low industrialization, urbanization
• One of the last frontiers of South America

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La Mesopotamia

• humid, green region dominated by Parana and
  Uruguay Rivers (similar to Mesopotamia)
• Popular tourist area
• much rainfall
• Semi-tropical forest

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Cuyo

• Mountainous, wine-producing area
• 80 of South American wine
• Aconcagua highest mountain peak in Western
  hemisphere

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Pampas

• Fertile plains, mild climate, much agriculture
• Known as bread basket of South America

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Buenos Aires

• Capital, largest city in Argentina
• One of the most important global cities
• Best quality of life
• Considered the Paris of South America
• Located near the Pampas and La Mesopotamia
  regions of Argentina

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Patagonia

• Southern tip of Argentina
• Some of the most dramatic landscapes on earth
• Semi-dry, flat, grassland (steppe)
• Largest icefields and glaciers outside of
  Antarctica
• Cold, dry, barren, harsh climate without animals
  or plants except near the Andes Mountains.
• Mostly mining and sheep grazing