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  2. Argentine cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Argentine restaurants include a great variety of cuisines, prices, and flavours. [3] Large cities tend to host everything from high-end international cuisine to bodegones (inexpensive traditional hidden taverns), less stylish restaurants, and bars and canteens offering a range of dishes at affordable prices.

  3. Argentine beef - Wikipedia

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    The price of meat was kept artificially high by the government, by means of the combination of a special tariff applied to cattle imports from Argentina, to protect the domestic producers, and a runaway inflation. The riots lasted from October 22 until October 27, and between 200 and 250 people were killed over this period, while more than 500 ...

  4. Agriculture in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The prairies and the pampas: agrarian policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930 (Stanford University Press, 1987) Viglizzo, Ernesto F., et al. "Ecological and environmental footprint of 50 years of agricultural expansion in Argentina." Global Change Biology 17.2 (2011): 959–973. online; Wright, Ione S., and Lisa M. Nekhom.

  5. Pampas - Wikipedia

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    The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain"), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.

  6. Semi-arid Pampas - Wikipedia

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    The Semi-arid Pampas cover an area of 327,000 square kilometers (126,000 sq mi), including western Buenos Aires Province, southern Cordoba and San Luis Provinces and most of La Pampa Province. The area is, in all, home to no more than a million people, who generally enjoy some of the nation's lowest poverty rates.

  7. History of agriculture in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Impression of a Buenos Aires slaughterhouse by Charles Pellegrini, 1829.. Since its formal organization as a national entity in the second half of the 17th century, Argentina followed an agricultural and livestock export model of development with a large concentration of crops in the fertile Pampas, particularly in and around Buenos Aires Province, as well as in the littoral of the Paraná and ...

  8. Cortaderia jubata - Wikipedia

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    Cortaderia jubata is a species of grass known by several common names, including purple pampas grass and Andean pampas grass. It is similar to its more widespread relative, the pampas grass C. selloana , but it can get quite a bit taller, approaching seven meters in height at maximum.

  9. Cortaderia - Wikipedia

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    Cortaderia species are perennial grasses, characterised by robust culms and feathery inflorescent plumes held high above the foliage.Some species are relatively short, forming rounded hedgehog-like clumps less than 0.5 m tall, but many species, including Cortaderia selloana and Cortaderia jubata form wide tussocks, up to 4 m tall.