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| | TOURISM-ARGENTINA: Fossils, Whales and Tango |
 | | Tourism employs 500,000 people in hotels, restaurants, bars, travel agencies and transport companies, while generating a similar number of indirect jobs in this country of nearly 38 million. |
 | | In northern Argentina, in the province of Jujuy, is the Quebrada de Humahuaca, a valley flanked by multi-hued mountains that was used as a major trade route over the past 10,000 years. |
 | | Argentina's hotel capacity is currently over 400,000 rooms in 7,700 hotels, ''70 percent of which were occupied in the first week of 2004,'' said the president of the Argentine Chamber of Tourism, Marco Palacios. |
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