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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the far south of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km² (1,073,397 mi²), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. Argentina shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state divided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, and a part of Antarctica.

The earliest recorded human presence in modern-day Argentina dates back to the Paleolithic period. The Inca Empire expanded to the northwest of the country in pre-Columbian times. The modern country has its roots in Spanish colonisation of the region during the 16th century. Argentina rose as the successor state of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, a Spanish overseas viceroyalty founded in 1776. The Argentine Declaration of Independence on July 9 of 1816 and the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1825) were followed by an extended civil war that lasted until 1880, culminating in the country's reorganisation as a federation. The then sparsely populated country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with several subsequent mass waves of millions of European immigrants (mainly Italians and Spaniards) significantly influencing its culture and demography.

Argentina is a regional power, and retains its historic status as a middle power in international affairs. A major non-NATO ally of the United States, Argentina is a developing country with the second-highest HDI (human development index) in Latin America after Chile. Its economy is the second-largest in South America, and it is a member of G-15 and G20. Argentina is also a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization, Mercosur, Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the Organization of Ibero-American States. (Full article...)

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Iceberg on Lake Argentino.

Los Glaciares National Park (Spanish: The Glaciers) is a national park in the Santa Cruz Province, in Argentine Patagonia. It comprises an area of 4459 km². In 1981 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The national park, created in 1937, is the second largest in Argentina. Its name refers to the giant ice cap in the Andes range that feeds 47 large glaciers, of which only 13 flow towards the Atlantic Ocean. The ice cap is the largest outside of Antarctica and Greenland. In other parts of the world, glaciers start at a height of at least 2,500 meters above mean sea level, but due to the size of the ice cap, these glaciers begin at only 1,500m, sliding down to 200m AMSL, eroding the surface of the mountains that support them. The mountains hold most of the humidity from the Pacific Ocean, letting through only the ice coldness (annual average of 7.5 °C) and creating the arid Patagonian steppe on the Argentine side of the range. This area is habitat for ñandúes, guanaco, cougar, and gray fox, the latter who has suffered from the invasion of the cattle industry and are endangered. (Full article...)

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Image 1Tehuelche Cacique Casimiro Biguá, c. 1864 (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 2Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata in 1777 (from History of Argentina)
Image 3Police intervention in the 2001 riots (from History of Argentina)
Image 4President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (from History of Argentina)
Image 5Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine illustrator and painter. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 6alt=Flag of La Rioja (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 7Alberto Fernández served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 8Raúl Alfonsín's presidential inauguration, 1983 (from History of Argentina)
Image 9Guaraní girl in Yrapú, Misiones Province. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 10The asado (1888), by Ignacio Manzoni. Asado is considered a national dish, and is typical of Argentine families to gather on Sundays around one. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 11Emanuel Ginóbili, one of the most recognized Argentine basketball players. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 12Mauricio Macri served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. (from History of Argentina)
Image 13Map of the East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute. In blue and green are the boundaries claimed by Argentinian and Chilean historians respectably as uti possidetis iuris in Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 14Monument to the Falklands War fallen, Rosario (from History of Argentina)
Image 15President Julio Argentino Roca, the central political figure of the PAN Hegemony years (from History of Argentina)
Image 16Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. (from History of Argentina)
Image 17President Juan Perón (1946) (from History of Argentina)
Image 18Argentine literary figures: Julio Cortázar, Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 19Carlos Menem served as President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. (from History of Argentina)
Image 20Lionel Messi is the football player (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 21Distribution of Native Argentines by province according to the 2022 census (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 22Portrait of José de San Martín (from History of Argentina)
Image 23President Arturo Frondizi (from History of Argentina)
Image 24Artifacts at the Pío Pablo Díaz Museum in Cachi, Salta Province. One of several in Argentina devoted to the ethnology of Indigenous peoples. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 25The haystacks (1911) by Martín Malharro. He is considered the introducer of Impressionism in Argentina. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 26Carlos Gardel is the most famous representative of Tango. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 27Known as the "voice of the voiceless ones", Mercedes Sosa was one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 28The training ship Sarmiento and the Ministry of Defense, Buenos Aires (from History of Argentina)
Image 29President Hipólito Yrigoyen (from History of Argentina)
Image 30Payada in a bar. Painting by Carlos Morel. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 31Under General Roca, the Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 32Argentine junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla meeting U.S. President Jimmy Carter in September 1977 (from History of Argentina)
Image 33Marta Minujín's Tower of Babel (2011) (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 34Néstor Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. His presidency marked the ideology called Kirchnerism. (from History of Argentina)
Image 35Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas by Cayetano Descalzi around 1841 (from History of Argentina)
Image 36The ousting of President Arturo Illia was initially broadly supported but later deeply regretted by the Argentine population. (from History of Argentina)
Image 37El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 38Iconic Argentine actresses in the 1961 Berlin International Film Festival: Isabel Sarli, Olga Zubarry, Tita Merello and Mirtha Legrand (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 39Population of Indigenous people in Greater Buenos Aires according to the 2022 census. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 40The Tucumán Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of the Tucumán Province. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 41The interior of the Teatro Colón. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 42Javier Milei served as President of Argentina since 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 43Population pyramid of Indigenous Argentines in 2022. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 44The frescoed dome of Galerías Pacífico was painted by muralists Berni, Castagnino, Colmeiro, Spilimbergo and Urruchúa. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 45The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period. (from History of Argentina)

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1919 Victorino de la Plaza, politician and President of Argentina from 9 August 1914 to 11 October 1916 dies.
1935 Omar Sívori football striker and manager is born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos.

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Siblings shall be united, because that is the prime law, wathever the time is have a real union, because if they fight with each other, the outsiders will devour them.

— José Hernández (writer), Martín Fierro, 1872

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...that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of her hometown Recreo?
...that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
...that the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
...that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
...that the Argentine "San Lorenzo march" was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II, then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city?
...that adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
...that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign?
...that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (pictured)?

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