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This is a page devoted to the greatest country on earth.  The country that in 1900 was one of the top three nations in the world & by 2000, one of the poorest.  The country that gave the world Juan & Evita, Carlos & Tango, Jorge Luis Borges, Diego & Boca Juniors, Los Fronterizos & Mercedes Sosa, the Gaucho & beef. The brave country that fought to regain Las Malvinas in 1982, from the might of Thatchers England, after  the invaison 150 years ago. by England.  The country that has a variety of climates, from Tierra del Fuego, in the south, to the semi tropics in the north, from the Andes to the Pampas.  What a country! what a history! what a people!  The capital Buenos Aires, the Paris of the South, the most beatiful capital city in the world, see it all by the magic of the  internet.   

A fact file of Argentina, population, capital city, geographical aspects etc, as well a links to other sites,

http://www.countryreports.org/argentina.htm

9 de Julio, the widest avenue in the world

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http://www.argentour.com/bsas56e.html

http://www.itau.com.ar/camara/camara.htm

Santa Evita

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http://www.evitaperon.org/Principal.htm

Juan Domingo Peron

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http://www.falange.org/peron.htm

History of Tango

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http://www.todotango.com/

Astor Piazzolla, the late  king of Tango Nuevo.  Piazzolla brought the Tango back from obscruity. Vale Astor!  

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http://www.piazzolla.org/biography/biography-english.html

Folkloric music of Argentina

Mercedes Sosa
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The best folkloric singer in Argentina

http://www.guardian.co.uk/argentina/story/0,11439,621139,00.html

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http://www.redsalta.com/folclore/losfronterizos.htm

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http://www.themodernword.com/borges/

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http://www.diegomaradona.com/ingles/imultim.html

Las Malvinas, the history of the war

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http://www.yendor.com/vanished/falklands-war.html

The Dirty War 1975 - 82, when thousands of innocent people disappeared & were murderd by the miltary, there crime? to be socialist. This state sanctioned murder happened throughout Latin America & was backed by the CIA,  

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http://www.yendor.com/vanished/

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.madres.org/titulo.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmadres%2Bde%2Bplaza%2Bde%2Bmayo%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

A taste of what you can see, from Tierra del Fuego to Foz Iguazu

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http://www.etravelphotos.com/argentina.html

The Gaucho, the cowboy of the Pampas & the most famous gaucho of the all, Martin Fierro.

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http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.soygaucho.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgaucho%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

Argentine Food
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Nothing better than a great piece of beef

http://www.expatvillage.com/town/standard_page_AT.cfm?ObjectId=607&CFID=680007&CFTOKEN=5554537

Some of the sights and cities of Argentina, from Salta to Bariloche to Foz Iguazu to Patagonia to Mendoza 

Igauzu Falls
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Bigger than Niagra

http://www.pollackphoto.com/southamerica/iguazu/default.htm

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La Quiacha
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Northern Argentina

http://www.welcomeargentina.com/laquiaca/

Tilcara
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Quebrada de Humahuaca
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The place to retire to

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Jujuy
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Gauchos
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Salta

http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~omsuarez/photos3.html

http://www.imagine.com.ar/humahuaca/

http://www.imagine.com.ar/humahuaca/

http://www.redsalta.com/turismo/default.htm

Santiago del Estero
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http://www.mercotour.com/santiagodelestero/

Tucuman
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http://tucuman.com/homepage/tur_02.htm

Valle de la Luna
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http://argentina.gotolatin.com/eng/Tour/Argentina-Valle-de-la-Luna-Talampaya.asp

http://www.fotoargentina.com.ar/sanj.htm

http://www.federicobechis.com/english/landscape-photos-midwest-argentina-cuyo.shtml

Cordoba
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http://www.alojargentina.com.ar/packcordoba-e.html

Aconcagua
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The highest moutain in S America

http://argentina.gotolatin.com/eng/Tour/Argentina-Mendoza-Aconcagua.asp

Bariloche
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The lake district

http://www.trekpatagonia.com/english/master.html?http://www.trekpatagonia.com/english/photo-gallery-patagonia.shtml

Valdez Peninsula
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Chubut

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/7995/

Ushuaia
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The last city on earth

http://www.austral.addr.com/tierra_del_fuego/Argentina_in_photos.htm

Tierra del Fuego
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The end of the earth

Misiones
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Where the film the Mission was made

http://www.austral.addr.com/forest/

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/Tierrade.asp

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