Argentina tourism

Geography of Argentina
Continent South America
Region Southern Hemisphere
Area Ranked 8th
• Total 2,780,400 km2
• Land 98.43%
• Water 1.57%
Coastline 4,989 km
Borders Chile 6,691 km
Paraguay 2,351 km
Brazil 1,263 km
Bolivia 942 km
Uruguay 541 km
Highest point Cerro Aconcagua, 6,960 m
Lowest point Laguna del Carbón, -105 m
Longest river Paraná River, 4,700 km
Largest lake Lake Buenos Aires 1,850 km²

Aconcagua :- is the highest mountain outside
of Asia, at 6,960.8 metres ,and by extension
the highest point in the Southern
Hemisphere. It is located in
the Andes mountain range, in
the province of Mendoza,Argentina, and lies
112 kilometres northwest of its capital,
the city of Mendoza

Buenos Aires:- is the capital and largest city
of Argentina, and thesecond-largest metropolitan
area in South America, after Greater São Paulo.It
is located on the western shore of the estuary of
the Río de la Plata, on the continent's
southeastern coast. The Greater Buenos
Aires conurbation, which also includes several
Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the
third-largest conurbation in Latin America, with a
population of around fifteen and a half million.

The Pampas:- are fertile South
American lowlands, covering more than
750,000 km2, that include
the Argentine provinces of Buenos
Aires, La Pampa, Santa
Fe, and Córdoba; These vast plains are
a natural region only interrupted by the
low Ventana and Tandil hills near Bahía
Blanca and Tandil with a height of
1,300 mtr.

The building Construction began on
March 20, 1936, and it was
inaugurated on May 23 of the same
year. It was designed by
architect Alberto Prebisch at the
request of the mayor Mariano de
Vedia y Mitre For its construction,
which cost 200,000 pesos moneda
nacional.

Los Glaciares National Park is
located in the area known as
Austral Andes in Argentina, in the
south west of Santa Cruz on the
border with Chile. By his
magnificent natural beauty, it
constitutes a wonder in the world,
and was declared "World
Heritage" by UNESCO in 1981

Cafayate is a town located at the
central zone of the Valles
Calchaquíes in
the province of Salta,Argentina. It sits
1,683 metres above mean sea level,
at a distance of 189 kilometres
from Salta City and 1,329 kilometres
from Buenos Aires. It has about
12,000 inhabitants

Galileo Planitoria Buenos aires

The Galileo Galilei planetarium,
commonly known as Planetario, is
located in Parque Tres de Febrero in
the Palermo district of Buenos
Aires, Argentina. The idea that Buenos
Aires should have a planetarium began
to take shape in 1958 by an agreement
between Socialist Councilman José
Luis Peña and the municipal Secretary
of Culture, Dr. Aldo Cocca.

Iguazu Falls, Iguazú Falls, Iguassu Falls,
or Iguaçu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu
River on theborder of the Argentina
province of Misiones and the Brazilian state
of Paraná. The falls divide the river into the
upper and lower Iguazu. The Iguazu River
rises near the city of Curitiba. For most of its
course, the river flows through Brazil, however,
most of the falls are on the Argentine side.
Below its confluence with the San Antonio
River, the Iguazu River forms the boundary
between Argentina and Brazil.

Miramar is an Argentine city located
on the coast of the Atlantic
Ocean in Buenos Aires Province,
450 km south of Buenos Aires. It is the
seat of General Alvarado Partido. The
name “Miramar” cames from the
words Mira (look) and Mar (sea).

Rosedal de palremo Buenos aires

The park itself, inside the fences,
is beautiful and well conservated.
A nice lake, grass and tress. But,
what makes it great is everything
else outside the fences. People
walking, using the park, picnicing
in the grass, skateboarding,
rollerblading, running, small
children having fun.

Purmamarca is a town in
the Tumbaya Department of the Jujuy
Province in Argentina.
The name of the town can be
interpreted as the combination
of Aymara
language words purma (desert)
and marca (city), though desert in that
language can refer
to uncivilised or not touched by human
hand, thus the name is often
interpreted as Town of the virgin land.
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La Boca is a neighborhood, of
the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It
retains a strong European flavour, with
many of its early settlers being from
the Italian city of Genoa. In fact the name
has a strong assonance with the Genoese
neighborhood of Boccadasse and some
people believe that the Buenos Aires
barrio was indeed named after it.

Lanín is an ice-clad, cone-
shaped stratovolcano on the border
of Argentina and Chile. It forms part of
two national parks Lanínin Argentina
and Villarrica in Chile. It is a symbol of the
Argentine province of Neuquén, being part
of its flag and its anthem. Although the
date of its last eruption is not known, it is
estimated to have occurred within the last
10,000 years

Cueva de las Manos is a cave or a series
of caves located in the province of Santa
Cruz, Argentina, 163 km south of the town
of Perito Moreno. It is famous for
the paintings of hands. The art in the cave
dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years
ago.Several waves of people occupied the
cave, The age of the paintings was
calculated from the remains of bone-made
pipes used for spraying the paint on the
wall of the cave to create silhouettes of
hands.

Patagonia is a sparsely populated
region located at the southern end
of South America, shared
by Argentina and Chile. The region
comprises the southern section of
the Andes mountains as well as
the deserts, steppes and grasslands
east of this southern portion of the
Andes. Patagonia has two coasts a
western one towards the Pacific
Ocean and an eastern one towards
the Atlantic Ocean.

The most outstanding, which has
made the city that lodges it so
popular, is the hill of the seven
colors It bears such a name due to
the various pigments aquired by
the minerals that make up its walls.
This hill is part of the eastern
mountain range and is located right
West of the population nucleus of
Purmamarca.

Established on 3 November 1971, the park
has an area of 60,37 Ischigualasto
Provincial Park also called Valle de la
Luna is a provincial protected area in the
north-east of San Juan Province, north-
westernArgentina, limiting to the north with
the Talampaya National Park, in La Rioja
Province. Both areas belong to the same
geological formation, the Ischigualasto
Formation 0

The Los Cardones National Park is a national
park of Argentina, located in the center-west of
the province of Salta, within the San Carlos and
Cachi Departments, in the Argentine Northwest.
The park has an area of 650 square kilometres,
with hills and ravines at the height levels
between 2,700 m and 5,000 m. It gets its name
from the prevalence of cardones bush
formations. It features fossil remains of extinct
animals, as well as dinosaur tracks.

San Telmo is the
oldest barrio of Buenos Aires,
Argentina. It is a well-
preserved area of the
Argentine metropolis and is
characterized by its colonial
buildings. Cafes, tango parlors
and antique shops line
thecobblestone streets, which
are often filled with artists and
dancers

Salta province is
a province of Argentina, located in the
northwest of the country. Neighboring
provinces are from the east
clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago
del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It
also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it
borders Bolivia and Paraguay and to
the west lies Chile.

San telmo district Buenos aires

Blessed
with cobblestoned streets,
a crumbling, faded
grandeur, an amazing
weekly street market and
many good places to eat
and drink, San Telmo is
a Buenos Aires barrio that
simply cannot be missed.

Puente del Inca is
a natural arch that
forms a bridge over the
Vacas River, a tributary
of the Mendoza River.
It is located
in Mendoza
Province, Argentina,
near Las Cuevas

The typical high temperatures of
the Patagonian coast in the
summer are milder at Playa
Unión due to a constant breeze
that gives visitors the chance to go
on long walks and enjoy the sea.

Puerto Madero, also known within
the urban planning community as
the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is
a barrio of theArgentine capital
at Buenos Aires CBD, occupying a
significant portion of the Río de la
Plata riverbank and representing
the latest architectural trends in
the city of Buenos Aires.

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