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Dimensiones de Argentina. Título.

Geography / The Country

Dimensions of Argentina: Surface area, Length, Perimeter

Updated March 21, 2021 Argentina has a territory of amazing dimensions, located in the southern part of South America. In this report we will describe the surface area of Argentina measured in kilometers. We will also present other interesting facts about the extension and size of our territory as: length,...

Argentina provinces: Capitals, areas, population

The Country / Geography

Argentina Provinces: Capitals, Area and Population

Updated March 21, 2021 The Republic of Argentina, has 23 provinces and an autonomous city. The autonomous city of Buenos Aires, is the capital of the nation and seat of national government. Argentina is a sovereign state whose system of government is republican, representative and federal. The provinces are autonomous...

Mining and Power in Argentina: Salto Grande

Economic Activities / The People

Mining and Power in Argentina

Updated March 21, 2021 The mining and power in Argentina , is closely linked to the growth of economic activities in the country.Argentina is a country rich in mineral reserves and energy resources, which have not yet been exploited to the extent of their potential. Although, Vaca Muerta, is the...

Industrial Activity in Argentina

Economic Activities / The People

Industrial Activity in Argentina

Updated March 22, 2021 The industrial activity in Argentina is going through a particularly difficult period marked by the rise in domestic costs, the fall in consumption, the inability to import inputs necessary to produce and lack of funding. Stagnated since 2012, the sector accounts for only 15.5% of the...

Livestock in Argentina: Livestock exhibition in the Rural Society

Economic Activities / The People

Livestock in Argentina

Updated March 22, 2021Panorama of livestock in Argentina According to the figures from the 1988 Livestock National Census (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos, INDEC), in Argentina there are 75 million head of cattle including bovine, ovine, porcine and equine cattle. About 60 per cent corresponds to the finest breeds...

Argentina Foreign Trade: Imports and Exports: Containers in the port

Economic Activities / The People

Foreign Trade in Argentina: Import and Export

Updated March 22, 2021 Argentina’s foreign trade is the exchange of goods, products and services with other countries or economic regions. Since the implementation of Mercosur in 1995, Argentina’s foreign trade has been mainly with Brazil. The latter being Argentina’s main trading partner, both in terms of export and import,...

Agriculture in Argentina: Crops, Productive areas Aerial view field

Economic Activities / The People

Agriculture in Argentina: Crops, Productive areas

Updated March 22, 2021 The agriculture in Argentina is one of the main economic activities that not only caters to the country, but that the surplus is exported. Argentina has a continental area of about 2.8 million square kilometers and has around 37,5 million hectares of agricultural crops.The main crops...

Argentina Continental Integration

Location / The Country

Argentina Continental Integration

Updated March 22, 2021 The continental integration of Latin American countries, “the great nation” was the dream of the Liberators of the War of Independence of the Spanish empire, as José de San Martín and Simón Bolivar. Latin American countries started to be emancipated at a time when the great...

Fishing Activity in Argentina; Inauguration of the Porto Belo Ship

Economic Activities / The People

Fishing Activity in Argentina

Updated March 22, 2021 LArgentina fishing is an economic activity with high expectations for the future, given the importance of fisheries resources. Argentina is a country with a long marine coast, with 4700 km of coastline on the South Atlantic Ocean, plus inland waters, and aquaculture. The Argentine Sea is...

Economic Activities in Argentina

Economic Activities / The People

Economic Activities in Argentina

Updated March 22, 2021 Argentina economic activities followed a pattern of agricultural and livestock exports which endured from the colonial times up to the early decades of the 20th century. Then it gave rise to the production of some manufactures, which stopped coming from Europe, until the establishment of industries...

Argentina Geographic Regions, Altas Cumbres Road, Córdoba

Geography / The Country

8 Argentina Geographic Regions

Updated March 21, 2021 Argentina geographic regions are very dissimilar. There are plains and mountain ranges; woods and jungles; arid, swampy or clayish lands. Traversing the country along its latitude (3.779 km, according to IGN) is a long way. From the point of view of geography, Argentina can be divided...