A country full of surprises, where you can find all kind of climates and landscapes. From a living Rain Forest to mountains and ski resorts, from deserts to Humpaback Whales' mating spot at close view from the coast.
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Spanish and Italian immigrants established the strong European flavor of this land of stark diversity, the world’s eighth largest country in area. The swampy Gran Chaco of the north gives way to the grassy Pampas sprawling westward from Buenos Aires and to the windswept Patagonian desert. Argentina’s share of the Andes includes some 30 peaks higher than 20,000 feet ; and specially America’s highest peak, the Aconcagua, towering up to 22,834ft (6.960m) |
Argentines tell many wry jokes about our
beginnings, and perhaps the oldest one is:
Mexicans descended from the Aztecs.
Peruvians descended from the Incas.
But we descended from Boats.
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About 95 percent of the nation’s 30 million people descended from Spanish, Italian, and other European stock. In 180 years of independence we have turned a million magnificent square miles of grasslands, mountains, deserts, and tropical forests into one of the world’s richest agricultural nations. Our capital, Buenos Aires, shines by the Río de la Plata, and I am fortunate enough to see it in December, when graceful jacarandá and tipa trees sprangle its boulevards with blossoms of lavander and gold. |  Click here to see a full size Picture |
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Two hours flying south of Buenos Aires, the autumn sun raised a bloodshot eye on the sheep-speckled plains and stark coastline of Southern Patagonia. As one crosses the Strait of Magellan, icy blue-gray clouds veil the island of Tierra del Fuego, which Argentina shares with Chile. The capital of this antipodean empire is Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. To get there you can just fly or drive south and west from Río Grande on a rutted dirt track, fishtailing perilously through boggy lowlandsand stunted groves of lichen-shrouded trees, then climbing gradually past misty lakes to cross a miniature cordillera whose jagged peaks are the smaller brothers of the Andes.
Climbing north through the Cordillera, you can find yourself in front of one of the most breathtaking scenarios of the world. A huge Icy Intruder, three-mile-wide Perito Moreno Glacier invades an arm of Lake Argentino. This Valley in the southern Andes echoes with the crash of constantly calving ice. Glaciers National Park preserves this and 12 other major glaciers descending from an ice field that measures 250 miles long and as much as 40 miles wide.
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