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Regardless of the regions system used, some provinces are shared by more than one region. For instance, Southwestern Santiago del Estero is sometimes considered part of the Sierras area, or even the Humid Pampa , while the Southern part of La Pampa is sometimes called Dry Pampa and included in Patagonia.
Andean regions – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Northern Chile, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina. Much of the culture found in this region can be traced back to the Inca Empire. Quechua is still spoken as a second language in many of these regions. Gaucho regions – Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil.
Both Argentina and Mexico share a common history in the fact that both nations were once part of the Spanish Empire.During the Spanish colonial period, Mexico was then known as Viceroyalty of New Spain and the capital being Mexico City while Argentina was at first governed from the Viceroyalty of Peru in Lima and in 1776, Spain created the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata where the capital ...
There is a significant Argentine diaspora in Mexico. According to the 2010 census, there were 13,696 registered Argentine citizens living in Mexico, [ 2 ] an increase from the 6,465 registered in the 2000 census. [ 2 ]
Patagonia (Spanish pronunciation: [pataˈɣonja]) is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west and deserts, tablelands, and steppes to the east.
Argentina's defence has historically been one of the best equipped in the region, even managing its own weapon research facilities, shipyards, ordnance, tank and plane factories. [217] However, real military expenditures declined steadily after the defeat in the Falklands/Malvinas War and the defence budget in 2011 was only about 0.74% of GDP ...
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It limits with Chile to the west and south, with the Argentina–Chile border being its largest one. [3] [4] Bolivia and Paraguay limit Argentina in the north, the Argentina–Paraguay border is the second largest one. [4] The northern half of Argentina limits with Brazil and Uruguay to the east, and the southern half with the Atlantic Ocean.