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Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890  km² (1,078,000 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.
Argentina's political framework is a federal presidential representative democratic republic, in which the President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government, complemented by a pluriform multi-party system.
Argentina was the only country from Latin America to participate in the 1991 Gulf War under mandate of the United Nations, and in every phase of the Haiti operation.
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 Argentina information - Search.com
Argentina is a country in South America, situated between the Andes peaks in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.
Argentina is currently prompting the Mercosur as its first external priority, contrasting with the 1990s' emphasis in the relationship with the United States.
Argentina Claims the sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, the South Shetland Islands, the South Sandwich Islands and almost 1 milion square kilometres in Antarctica, between the 25ºW and the 74ºW meridians and the 60ºS parallel.
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  Argentina - Netencyclo, l'encyclopédie française : Argentina
Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,791,810 km² (1,078,000 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.
Argentina's political framework is a federal presidential representative democratic republic, in which the President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government, complemented by a pluriform multi-party system.
Argentina was the only country from Latin America to participate in the 1991 Gulf War under mandate of the United Nations, and in every phase of the Haiti operation.
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 Argentina - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Argentina is a country in South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.
Argentina's parliament is the bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Nación, consisting of a Senate (Senado) of 72 seats and a Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) of 257 members.
Argentina is the largest Spanish-speaking community that employs voseo (the use of the pronoun vos instead of tú).
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By 2002, Argentina had defaulted on its debt, its GDP had shrunk, unemployment was more than 25%, and the peso had depreciated 75% after being devalued and floated.
Argentina's highway system is well-developed and paved roads reach all corners of the country.
Argentina is the only nation in South America with a net positive migration rate, of about +0.4 persons.
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 Argentina - QucikSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Argentina is bordered by Chile on the west, Bolivia and Paraguay on the north, Brazil and Uruguay on the northeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the east.
Argentina is triangular in shape and stretches c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) from its broad northern region near the Tropic of Capricorn to Tierra del Fuego, an island shared with Chile, in the south.
The chief rivers of Argentina are the Paraná with its tributary, the Salado; the Colorado River; the Río Negro; and the Chubut.
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The Argentine Republic (Spanish: República Argentina, IPA [reˈpuβlika aɾxɛnˈtina]) is a country in South America, situated between the Andes peaks in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south.
The area of present Argentina was sparsely populated until it was colonised by Europeans.
Argentina has a wide variety of typical foods (Spanish: Comidas típicas), which include: Empanadas, a stuffed between two lids of dough; Locro, a mixture of corn, beans, meat, bacon, onion, and gourd; and Chorizos, a meat-based spicy sausage.
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Argentina was the only Latin American country to participate in the 1991 Gulf War under mandate of the United Nations and in every phase of the Haiti operation.
Argentina claims the sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, the South Shetland Islands, the South Sandwich Islands and almost 1 million km² in Antarctica, between the 25°W and the 74°W meridians and the 60°S parallel.
Argentina is the largest Spanish-speaking community in the world that employs voseo (the use of the pronoun vos instead of tú, associated with some alternate verb conjugations).
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In the northwest of Argentina there are many species of cacti.
Argentina is the world's fifth-largest wine producer, and fine wine production has taken major leaps in quality.
Industrial petrochemicals, oil, and natural gas are Argentina's second group of exports, 20% of totals.
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 Argentina (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Argentina, a MEKO-class destroyer of the Argentine Navy.
The Argentina Canyon in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States.
Largo di Torre Argentina, an historic piazza in the centre of Rome.
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Most European immigrants to Argentina settled in the cities, which offered jobs, education, and other opportunities that enabled newcomers to enter the middle class.
Many slums (villas miseria) sprouted in the outskirts of the largest cities, inhabited by impoverished lower-class urban dwellers, migrants from smaller towns in the interior, and also a large number of immigrants from neighbouring countries that came during the time of the convertibility and did not leave after the 2001 crisis.
Argentina has a rich history of world-renowned literature, including one of the twentieth century's most critically acclaimed writers, Jorge Luis Borges.
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The name Argentina was first used in Ruy Diaz de Guzman's 1612 book Historia del descubrimiento, población, y conquista del Río de la Plata (History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the River Plate), naming the territory Tierra Argentina (land of silver).
The indigenous Amerindian — poorly estimated between 500,000 and 2 million — and identifiably mestizo populations are concentrated in the provinces of the north, northwest and south.
Argentina is the largest Spanish-speaking community that employs voseo (the use of the pronoun vos instead of tú, associated with some alternate verb conjugations).
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The Pacific forms the country's entire western border, with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at the country's southernmost tip.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the government in Santiago consolidated its position in the south by ruthlessly suppressing the Mapuche during the Occupation of Araucanía.
Emigration of Chileans has decreased during the last decade: It is estimated that 857,781 Chileans live abroad, 50.1% of those being in Argentina, 13.3% in the United States, 8.8% in Brazil, 4.9% in Sweden, and around 2% in Australia, with the rest being scattered in smaller numbers across the globe.
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 Spanish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela and by some of the populations in Belize and the United States.
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
In Argentina, Uruguay, and increasingly in Paraguay, it is also the standard form used in the media, but media in other voseante countries generally continue to use usted or tú except in advertisements, for instance.
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The Argentine Republic (Spanish: Rep blica Argentina, IPA [repulika axntina]) is a...
Argentina (official name Argentine Republic) is a large, elongated country in the southern part of South America...
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 Argentina - OneLook Dictionary Search
Argentina : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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 La Plata Information
La Plata is the capital city of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as of the partido of La Plata.
The city was planned to serve as the capital of the province after the city of Buenos Aires was declared as the federal district in 1880.
The cathedral of La Plata, in Gothic style, is the largest church in Argentina.
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To the north this coastal chain continues in small ridges or isolated hills along the Pacific Ocean as far as Venezuela, always leaving the same valley more or less visible to the west of the western great chain.
The mountains extend over seven countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, some of which are known as Andean States.
The Andes can be divided into three sections: the Southern Andes in Argentina and Chile; the Central Andes, including the Chilean and Peruvian cordilleras; and the northern section in Venezuela, Colombia, and northern Ecuador consisting of two parallel ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Oriental.
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 Lithium - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Chile is currently the leading lithium metal producer in the world, with Argentina next.
Prices of lithium carbonate rose by 20% in 2005 and growth of up to 25% is forecast by Roskill Consulting Group for 2006, bringing prices back to the peak levels seen prior to SQM's entry into the market in 1996.
New capacity due on-stream in Chile, Argentina and China is forecast to alleviate the upward pressure on prices after 2007.
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 Inca Empire at AllExperts
It arose in the highlands of Peru around 1200; from 1438 to 1533 the Incas used conquest and peaceful assimilation to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including large parts of modern Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.
In 1533, Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, called a Sapa Inca, was killed on the orders of the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, marking the beginning of Spanish rule.
At its height, Tahuantinsuyu included Peru and Bolivia, most of what is now Ecuador, a large portion of modern-day Chile, and extended into corners of Argentina and Colombia.
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 Lithium - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Today, most commercial lithium is recovered from brine sources in Argentina and Chile.
The metal, which is silvery in appearance like sodium, potassium and other members of the alkali metal series, is produced electrolytically from a mixture of fused lithium and potassium chloride.
New capacity due on-stream in Chile, Argentina and China is forecast to alleviate the upward pressure on prices after 2007.
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Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of the Americas and borders every other South American country except Ecuador and Chile (viz.
Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French department of French Guiana).
Brazil was colonized by Portugal and it is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas.
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The International Basketball Federation was formed in 1932 by eight founding nations: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland.
In 1950 the first FIBA World Championship for men was held in Argentina.
A team made entirely of NBA players finished sixth in the 2002 World Championships in Indianapolis, behind Yugoslavia, Argentina, Germany, New Zealand and Spain.
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 Petunia - LoveToKnow 1911
PETUNIA, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Solanaceae and containing about 16 species, chiefly South American (southern Brazil and Argentina).
The garden forms are derived from the white-flowered P. nyctaginiflora and the violetor purple-flowered P. violacea.
This page was last modified 17:23, 19 May 2006.
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In February 1974, leaders of the secret polices of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay met together, with Manuel Contreras, chief of DINA (the Chilean secret police), in Santiago de Chile, officially creating the Plan Condor.
In Argentina, DINA's civil agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, prosecuted for crimes against humanity in 2004, was condemned a life-sentence in General Prat's case.
The Chilean leader of the MIR, Edgardo Enríquez, was "disappeared" in Argentina, as well as another MIR leader, Jorge Fuentes; Alexei Jaccard, Chilean and Swiss,Ricardo Ramírez and a support network to the Communist party dismantled in Argentina in 1977.
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 News and Media :: Argentina : Gourt
ABYZ News Links - Argentina - Links to national and local news media, including broadcast, internet, press agencies, newspapers and magazines.
The Economist - Country Briefings: Argentina - News, comment and analysis focused on business and economics.
TvRadioWorld - Argentina - List of broadcasters, TV and radio stations (local, national, international, shortwave and on the web), with links where available.
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This belief was so extended in Northern Argentina, that seventh sons were abandoned, ceded in adoption or killed.
A law from 1920 decreed that the President of Argentina is the godfather of the every seventh son.
Thus, the State werewolf costumes gives him a gold medal in his baptism and a scholarship until his 21st year.
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 SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - JORGE LUIS BORGES
Ocampo dedicated a large portion of the July 1941 issue of Sur to a "Reparation for Borges"; numerous leading writers and critics from Argentina and throughout the Spanish-speaking world contributed writings to the project.
Especially in the late 1980s, when Borges was clearly growing old and infirm, the failure to grant him the prize became a glaring omission.
It was speculated that Borges was considered unfit to receive the award because of his tacit support of, or unwillingness to condemn, the military dictatorships that were being installed in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and elsewhere.
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