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  Argentina Departments
The provinces are further subdivided into departamentos (departments), except for Buenos Aires, which is divided into partidos (parts).
According to the confusing notes in the spreadsheet downloaded from the INDEC site, "Antártida Argentina includes the South Shetland Islands and the South Orkney Islands of the Islas del Atlántico Sur departamento"; however, "The Islas del Atlántico Sur departamento, formed by the Islas Malvinas [a.k.a.
The following table shows all of the departments, parts, and the federal district, as of the census date 1991-05-15.
www.statoids.com /yar.html   (402 words)

  
  Argentina: Dining
Argentina is one of the world's major food suppliers.
Argentina was never a heavily populated area, so as a result, it claims almost no indigenous cuisine, prior to the arrival of immigrants.
Argentina, though, boasts a healthy coastline and fish are plentiful.
www.globalgourmet.com /destinations/argentina/background.html   (453 words)

  
  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : President of Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The President of Argentina (full title: President of the Argentine Nation, Spanish: Presidente de la Nación Argentina) is the head of state of Argentina.
In the 1949 amendment, reelection for an indefinite number of terms was enabled (and disabled again in the 1957 amendment), and the authorities from the 1966 military coup promulgated a resolution establishing terms of four years during the 1970s (terms which were never completed because of the political instability of those days).
The origins of Argentina as a nation can be traced to 1776, when the territory of the country was separated, by the Spanish King decision, from the existing Viceroyalty of Peru, creating the new Viceroyalty of the River Plate.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /President_of_Argentina   (1774 words)

  
 San Pedro Department (Misiones) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Pedro is the largest and most sparsely populated department in the Misiones Province, Argentina.
The capital of San Pedro Department is the town of San Pedro.
San Pedro has the highest rate of poverty among Misiones' departments: 40% of people do not have their basic needs satisfied.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Pedro_Department,_Misiones   (535 words)

  
 Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The growth was fueled in part by the deregulation of Argentina's economic markets and by austerity measures that left many citizens unemployed.
Argentina's franchisors have experienced significantly increased interest from small and medium-sized investors with $70,000 to $150,000 to spend, says Jorge A.
Argentina's franchise association and others worldwide are also looking at how best to set franchise standards.
www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,227267-----,00.html   (422 words)

  
 ARGENTINA: NGOs Call for Partnership, Not Philanthropy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
But today in Argentina, an alliance of civil society groups is advocating a paradigm shift, to replace philanthropy with a new business culture.
Argentina's two trade union confederations are also taking part in the Platform - "something that would have been totally unusual in the past," said the activist, who added that "we can work together on this initiative."
As an illustration of Argentina's weak institutions, the Platform points to the scant power of the state regulatory agencies in overseeing public services that have been privatised.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31113   (1346 words)

  
 Journal of Technology Studies: Volume XXIV, Number 1, Winter/Springl 1998 - Silvio Schlosser and Banuj Zaidenknop
ORT Argentina is an organization of the World ORT Union, the largest non-governmental training organization in the world as well as a worldwide Jewish charity that assists disadvantaged individuals and communities to become self-sufficient.
ORT Argentina's first technical school, now operating within the Argentine network of private schools for well over 30 years, originally offered just one trackelectronicsand a curriculum similar to the other technical schools.
Two other departments of ORT Argentina are specifically devoted to the production of teaching materials: the Creative Education Department and the Technical and Pedagogical Office.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JOTS/Winter-Spring-1998/schlosser.html   (2029 words)

  
 SlowFood.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The valley known as the Quebrada de Humahuaca in the north of Argentina comprises three departments of the province of Jujuy (Tumbaya, Tilcara and Humahuaca), as well as a fourth in the province of Salta (Iruya).
This is a different Argentina, one of stone and fine air, where the landscapes look like the handiwork of a bunch of half lazy, half crazy set designers.
His maternal grandfather, Armando Villasuso, was from Cuba and moved to Argentina in the 1920s to work in the sugar cane plantations, which together with tobacco plantations, are still a distinctive feature of the northern provinces.
www.slowfood.com /img_sito/PREMIO/vincitori2002/pagine_en/Argentina_02.html   (2012 words)

  
 Argentina Rugby T-Shirt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Historic Facts: During their first overseas tour, in Southern Africa, reporters were trying to devise a catchy nickname for the team similar to existing international team nicknames such as All Blacks, Springboks, and Wallabies.
The Argentina National Rugby Team is currently the top rugby union team in the Americas!
Being their second win during that stage, Argentina moved directly into the 2007 World Cup, taking the Americas 1 position.
www.worldrugbyshop.com /departments-t-shirts-argentina-rugby-t-shirt.html   (228 words)

  
 Experimental Report on Transparency Practices: Argentina
Argentina's economic reforms during the 1990s have been significant and wide-ranging, together representing a fundamental shift from past economic structure, institutions and practices—and a marked improvement in transparency.
Under Argentina's federal system of government, the process of generating consolidated fiscal data is not solely at the discretion of the national authorities.
However, the financial policy framework in Argentina is clear, the policy responsibilities of the individual agencies appear well defined, information sharing and policy coordination arrangements are in place and supervision is carried out in a generally transparent manner.
www.imf.org /external/np/rosc/arg/index.htm   (7705 words)

  
 Departments - Inter-American Development Bank
Regional Operations Department 1 (RE1) is responsible for all IDB projects in six countries of southern South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
Regional Operations Department 2 is responsible for IDB operations in Mexico and nine Central American and Caribbean countries (Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama).
The department also provides operational support to the Regional Operations Departments in functions related to portfolio management review, procurement, project financial management, and fiduciary risk assessment; and is responsible for formulating proposals to guide strategic planning, and for Bankwide coordination of all corporate policy development and oversight of the operations program.
www.iadb.org /aboutus/IV/departments.cfm?language=English   (1424 words)

  
 Uncorking Argentina
"Argentina's wine industry is blossoming now, and professionals young and old are excited about the changes.
Winemaking in Argentina, however, is nothing new and the culture embraces the Italian, Spanish and French traditions of the immigrants who brought many of the vines in the mid 19th century."
Uncorking Argentina leads you through a new world frontier unparalleled for wine, food, and natural beauty.
www.uncorkingargentina.com /region.html   (456 words)

  
 Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources on the Internet - Academic Departments
University of New England: Department of Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
University of Sheffield: Department of Archaeology and Prehistory
University of Southern Mississippi: Department of Anthropology and Sociology
members.tripod.com /~archonnet/dept.html   (515 words)

  
 Bip - Biosafety information management systems. A comparative analysis of the regulatory systems in Canada, Argentina, ...
Evaluators within Federal departments take on significant technical responsibilities in the assessment process and in some cases are the only sources of technical expertise used in an approval.
Argentina exerts regulatory oversight on products for contained use (same data required for contained or confined trial) where Canada does not exert oversight until Confined use is requested.
It is hoped to that through discussion of the Canadian and Argentine models and particularly in sharing how and why these models have been developed to their current form, a better understanding of the regulatory process will be achieved in all three countries and open the doors to regulatory harmonization.
www.ejbiotechnology.info /content/vol3/issue1/full/2/bip/index.html   (3197 words)

  
 Germans in Comodoro Rivadavia - Patagonia Mosaic 2001 - Dickinson College
The principal cause of this marked increase in population was the massive influx of immigrants.
After her two sons had left the house in order to study in Buenos Aires and her husband had died (when he was only 56 years old, in 1962), Martha moved to Germany in order to take care of her father.
His father had immigrated to Argentina in 1924 because there was much unemployment, poverty and hunger in Germany after World War I. His mother followed her husband with their two children in 1927.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/amos/mosaic01pat/projectsGermansKorell.html   (3305 words)

  
 SlowFood.it
The valley known as the Quebrada de Humahuaca in the north of Argentina includes three departments of the province of Jujuy, Tumbaya, Tilcara and Humahuaca, as well as a fourth, Iruya, in the province of Salta.
This is a different Argentina, one of stone and thin air, where the landscapes look like the handiwork of a bunch of half lazy, half crazy set designers.
His maternal grandfather, Armando Villasuso, was from Cuba and moved to Argentina in the 1920s to work in the sugar cane plantations, which, together with tobacco farms, are still a distinctive feature of the northern provinces.
www.slowfood.com /img_sito/riviste/slowark/EN/35/quebrada.html   (1874 words)

  
 Astronomy Departments Resources
This is the homepage for the Columbia University Department of Astronomy and the Columbia Astrophysics Lab.
Department of Astronomy is a part of Faculty of Mathematics at University of Belgrade.
Department of Astronomy of the University of Chile.
cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /astroweb/dept.html   (7238 words)

  
 Planet Ark : EU Bans Beef Imports from Small Part of Argentina
Argentina, the world's third-largest beef exporter, confirmed the outbreak last week, triggering restrictions on Argentine beef by a string of South American nations and the country's leading beef buyer, Russia.
Argentina's beef exports hit a record $1.39 billion last year after a vaccination programme helped the country regain its world status as free of foot-and-mouth.
Argentina's government says it does not expect beef exports to fall by more than 20 percent because of the recent outbreak.
www.planetark.com /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35127/story.htm   (737 words)

  
 ESPN.com Soccernet Global: Full-time Report - Cameroon v Argentina
As Sven Goran Eriksson prepares to meet his World Cup destiny in the shape of Argentina this summer, he has every reason to be concerned.
This meeting with Cameroon may only have been a friendly, designed to aid preparation for their June 2 clash with Nigeria in Ibaraki and, as such, conclusions must be measured.
Argentina's answer to Paul Scholes, the diminutive Aimar may currently be known only to followers of Arsenal and Manchester United and to the more diligent observers of the Champions League.
www.soccernet.com /global/2001/20020327/reports/46054_full.html   (688 words)

  
 HUM213: Hispanic Cinema
In Argentina, where Buenos Aires was a center of cosmopolitan culture, a European-style cinema emerged in the early 1960s.
Under Peron's leadership, Argentina's culture was cloistered-meaning the state was cut- off from the scientific and artistic developments happening in the rest of the world.
This is the term for the European-style new cinema in Argentina during the early 1960s-a rejection of the structures of commercial and populist filmmaking.
www.pvc.maricopa.edu /int/HUM213b/hum213b.html   (10760 words)

  
 Hunting (big game) in PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA - (South America)
It is practiced in private establishments (estancias or ranches), and you will need the written authorization of the owner and engage the game preserve, personally or by a guide.
These estancias are generally located in the vicinity of Junín de Los Andes, San Martín de Los Andes and Zapala.
The guanaco has its area limited to the Departments of Collón Curá, Añelo y Pehuenches.
www.patagonia-argentina.com /i/actividades/mayorneu.htm   (235 words)

  
 CU Dept. of Geography Resources: Academic Departments
University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Department of Geography.
József Attila University, Department of Climatology and Landscape Ecology.
University of the West Indies, Mona, Department of Geography and Geology.
www.colorado.edu /geography/virtdept/resources/depts/depts.htm   (3084 words)

  
 ARGENTINA REMOVED FROM VISA WAIVER PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
This week Argentina was officially removed from the list of countries participating in the Visa Waiver Program.
Using a provision of law that allows for the emergency termination of a country’s participation, the Justice and State Departments pulled Argentina, saying that its continued participation is “no longer compatible with the enforcement of immigration laws of the United States.”
According to a Justice Department press release, the decision to remove the country was finalized after reports from the INS that a growing number of Argentine nationals were attempting to use the Visa Waiver Program to enter the US and remain here after their 90-day period of admission.
www.visalaw.com /02feb4/2feb402.html   (472 words)

  
 Ecotourism in Argentina
The Parque Nacional Laguna de Pozuelos, on the other hand, has an extension that covers parts of the Departments of Yavi, Santa Catalina and Rinconada, up in the Puna highlands.
It is centre around The Laguna de Pozuelos Lake, a mirror of water surrounded by a high plateau of short grasses and dry ground.
Roque Sáenz Peña 615 4º OF.: "419" Buenos Aires The Republic of Argentina
www.enjoy-argentina.org /adventure-travel-argentina-ecotourism.php   (491 words)

  
 Che of Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Ernesto Guevara (Che) was a Latin American “guerrilla leader” and “revolutionary theorist.” Born in Argentina Guevara's early interests lay in medicine.
However convinced that revolution was the only way out of Latin America’s social inequities, Guevara moved to Mexico where he found and joined Fidel Castro, at the time exiled from Cuba.
But he is best remembered as an icon of the revolutionary hero which so many youths in America admired.
www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/Kotlyarskayaa1.html   (160 words)

  
 Pacific Union College | Modern Languages
Participating campuses are in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Ukraine.
It will be necessary for a student majoring in French to spend one year in the Adventist Colleges Abroad Program in France and to take the courses prescribed by the major adviser.
A student majoring in Spanish will be asked to spend from one to three quarters, as needed, in the Adventist Colleges Abroad Program in Spain or in Argentina and to take the courses prescribed by the major adviser.
www.puc.edu /PUC/academics/Academic_Departments/ModLang_Dept   (142 words)

  
 No Restraint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Really can't recall when did Argentina had won by such a huge margin in the World Cup Finals.
One might say Argentina scored that many goals because of Kezman (Serbia and Montenegro) being send off in the second half.
Well, all I can say is that Argentina was already 3 - 0 up at 1st half.
wizard6676.blogs.friendster.com /no_restraint   (1649 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Argentina
(CHOROTI, YOFUAHA, EKLENJUY) [CRT] 800, all in Argentina (1982 Drayson ANG).
Santiago del Estero Province, north central Argentina, Departments of Figueroa, Moreno, Robles, Sarmiento, Brigadier J.F. Ibarra, San Martín, Silipica, Loreto, Atamisqui, Avellaneda, Salavina, Quebrachos, Mitre, Aguirre.
(CHACO SUR, QOM, TOBA QOM) [TOB] 15,000 to 20,000 in Argentina; 700 in Paraguay (1991 SIL); 100 possibly in Bolivia; 15,800 to 20,800 in all countries.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Arge.html   (877 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Argentina
The number of languages listed for Argentina is 27.
In Argentina they are mixed with the Iyojwa'ja Chorote.
Santiago del Estero Province, north central Argentina, Departments of Figueroa, Moreno, Robles, Sarmiento, Brigadier J. Ibarra, San Martín, Silipica, Loreto, Atamisqui, Avellaneda, Salavina, Quebrachos, Mitre, Aguirre, some in southeast Salta Province, western Taboada Department along the Salado River, and Buenos Aires.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Argentina   (347 words)

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