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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the Southern Cone 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 subdivided 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 country thereafter enjoyed relative peace and stability, with several subsequent waves of European immigration, mainly of Italians and Spaniards, 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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Law School at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

The National University of Córdoba (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) (UNC), is the oldest university in Argentina, and one of the oldest in the Americas. It is located in Córdoba, the capital of Córdoba Province. Since the early 20th century it has been the second largest university in the country in terms of the number of students, faculty, and academic programs. In 1610 the Society of Jesus founded the Collegium Maximum in Córdoba, which was attended by students of the order. This was the precursor of the university. On August 8, 1621 Pope Gregory XV granted this authority by an official document, which arrived in the city in April 1622. With this authorization, and with the approval of the church hierarchy and the provincial head of the Jesuits, Pedro de Oñate, the university began its official existence. (Full article...)

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Canyon of the Huaco River

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Canyon of the Huaco River, in the San Juan province.

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Image 1The Tucumán Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of the Tucumán Province. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 2Carlos Menem served as President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. (from History of Argentina)
Image 3Néstor Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. His presidency marked the ideology called Kirchnerism. (from History of Argentina)
Image 4Payada in a bar. Painting by Carlos Morel. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 5Guaraní girl in Yrapú, Misiones Province. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 6alt=Flag of La Rioja (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 7Tehuelche Cacique Casimiro Biguá, c. 1864 (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 8President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (from History of Argentina)
Image 9President Arturo Frondizi (from History of Argentina)
Image 10Monument to the Falklands War fallen, Rosario (from History of Argentina)
Image 11Alberto Fernández served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 12President Julio Argentino Roca, the central political figure of the PAN Hegemony years (from History of Argentina)
Image 13President Juan Perón (1946) (from History of Argentina)
Image 14Population pyramid of Indigenous Argentines in 2022. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 15Police intervention in the 2001 riots (from History of Argentina)
Image 16Javier Milei served as President of Argentina since 2023. (from History of Argentina)
Image 17El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Buenos Aires. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 18The ousting of President Arturo Illia was initially broadly supported but later deeply regretted by the Argentine population. (from History of Argentina)
Image 19The 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)
Image 20The haystacks (1911) by Martín Malharro. He is considered the introducer of Impressionism in Argentina. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 21The frescoed dome of Galerías Pacífico was painted by muralists Berni, Castagnino, Colmeiro, Spilimbergo and Urruchúa. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 22The training ship Sarmiento and the Ministry of Defense, Buenos Aires (from History of Argentina)
Image 23Raúl Alfonsín's presidential inauguration, 1983 (from History of Argentina)
Image 24Marta Minujín's Tower of Babel (2011) (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 25Population of Indigenous people in Greater Buenos Aires according to the 2022 census. (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 26Lionel Messi is the football player (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 27Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine illustrator and painter. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 28Known as the "voice of the voiceless ones", Mercedes Sosa was one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 29Portrait of José de San Martín (from History of Argentina)
Image 30Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata in 1777 (from History of Argentina)
Image 31Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015. (from History of Argentina)
Image 32Map 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 33Mauricio Macri served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. (from History of Argentina)
Image 34President Hipólito Yrigoyen (from History of Argentina)
Image 35Distribution of Native Argentines by province according to the 2022 census (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
Image 36Artifacts 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 37Emanuel Ginóbili, one of the most recognized Argentine basketball players. (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 39Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas by Cayetano Descalzi around 1841 (from History of Argentina)
Image 40Argentine literary figures: Julio Cortázar, Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 41The interior of the Teatro Colón. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 42The 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 43Under General Roca, the Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia. (from History of Argentina)
Image 44Carlos Gardel is the most famous representative of Tango. (from Culture of Argentina)
Image 45Argentine junta leader Jorge Rafael Videla meeting U.S. President Jimmy Carter in September 1977 (from History of Argentina)

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... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello's children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina?
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... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina?
... that the 2024 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina took place at 21:00 instead of 12:00?
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1842 Mariano Sánchez de Loria, statesman and bishop and a representative to the Congress of Tucumán dies.
1925 Jorge Rafael Videla, soldier, and de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, is born in Mercedes.
1981 Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympicsis dies in a car accident near Buenos Aires.
1984 Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animation director and cartoonist is born in Santa Giuletta, Italy.
2004 José Omar Pastoriza, football midfielder for Independiente dies in Buenos Aires.

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Forgetful that I already was, I decided to be Argentine.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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...that Argentine actor Gastón Soffritti worked in Graduados to leave the teen drama genre?
...that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis?
...that Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane is remembered as the "mother of women's rights in Argentina"?
...that the Indio Comahue Monument (pictured), commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
...that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but the horse died two years before the event?
...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
...that Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
...that actor Víctor Laplace played Argentine president Juan Perón in the film Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón?

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