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Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the typical colour of the salt covering the soil surrounding the shores. The bay (which is actually an estuary) was seen by Ferdinand Magellan during his first circumnavigation of the world on the orders of Charles I of Spain, in 1520, looking for a canal connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of South America.
Bahía Blanca is the principal city in the Greater Bahía Blanca area. The city has an important seaport with a depth of 15 m (49 ft), kept constant upstream almost all along the length of the bay, where the Napostá Stream drains. Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the color of the salt covering the local soil surrounding the ...
Naturism in Argentina (or nudism in Argentina) is the movement supporting the practice of social nudism in the country.It began to be regularly performed in 1934, and it is being practiced nowadays, despite still being a taboo topic in the Argentine society.
Monte Hermoso is a town located on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, some 100 km (62 mi) east of the city of Bahía Blanca, in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires. It is the administrative seat of the partido of Monte Hermoso .
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White Bay may refer to a number of geographic locations: White Bay (New South Wales), Sydney, Australia; White Bay (Newfoundland), Canada; White Bay, British Virgin Islands; Bahía Blanca (White Bay) in the south east of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina; White Bay, Umm Al Quwain - United Arab Emirates
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landfall), is an active lighthouse in Monte Hermoso, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, marking the entrance to the Bahía Blanca. At a height of 220 feet (67 m) it is the eleventh-tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world, as well as the tallest lighthouse in the Southern Hemisphere and the tallest lighthouse built of metal in the lattice ...