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FLA

G

COAT OF ARMS

UBICATION

Capital : Buenos Aires.President: Cristina Fernández de

kirchner.

Currency : Peso.

Is the second largest country in

South America.

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` The earliest evidence of humans in Argentina is in

Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz), and dates from

11,000 BC.

` The Inca Empire, under King Pachacutec, invaded,

and conquered present-day northwestern Argentina in1480, a feat usually attributed to Túpac Inca Yupanqui.

` A wave of  foreign investment and immigration from

Europe after 1875 led to the strengthening of a

cohesive state, the development of modernagriculture and to a near-reinvention of Argentine

society and the economy.

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William Carr Beresford surrenders to Santiago

de Liniers

at the end of the first of the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.

José de San

Martín,

Liberator of 

 Argentina,Chile and

Perú.

Eva and

Juan Perón

during his

1946-55

presidency.

Néstor

Kirchner

applauds his

wife and

successor,

Cristina

Fernández de

Kirchner,

upon her

inaugural in

2007.

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Topographic map of Argentina

Thunderstorm in western Argentina

andes mountains, patagonia

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The Casa Rosada, seat of the Executive branchThe Argentine National Congress

The Supreme Court of Argentina

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`  Argentina has abundant natural resources, a well-educated population, an export-oriented agriculturalsector and a relatively diversified industrial base.

` The dictatorship's chief economist, José AlfredoMartínez de Hoz, advanced a disorganized, corrupt,monetarist[78] financial liberalization that increased thedebt burden and interrupted industrial developmentand upward social mobility;

`  Argentina has, after its neighbour Chile, the second-highest Human Development Index and GDP per 

capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America.

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The Buenos Aires waterfront and three sectorsleading the recent economic recovery:

construction

Newbery Airfield connects the vast nation to itscapital, and to neighbouring Uruguay.

International flights operate through Ministro

Pistarini Airport at Ezeiza.

Freight rail yard in Rosario. The nations'railways move 25 million metric tons of 

cargo annually.[74]

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