The Buenos Aires province (IPA: /ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes/, Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the largest, wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. Even though the Buenos Aires city is inside its territory, it is an autonomous city and not part of the province. The province has a population of 13,827,203 (2001) and its capital is La Plata (850.000 inhabitants), 50 kilometers south of the city of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires Province - History. Th ...

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List of cities in Argentina - Buenos Aires. La Plata Bahía Blanca Tandil Mar del Plata Lanús Pinamar Azul Carmen de Patagones Olavarría Lobos Bragado San Nicolás Pergamino Miramar Necochea Trenque Lauquen Pehuajó Junín Pilar Campana Zárate Lomas de Zamora List of cities in Argentina - C ...

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Puelches, Picunches and Vuriloches tribes of the Tehuelche aboriginal group lived in the area before the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadores. Pushed by the Spanish, the Araucanos crossed the Andes from Chile mixing with local ethnics. Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to visit the coasts of the provinces in 1520. Priest Nicolás Mascardi founded the Jesuit mission Nuestra Senora de Nahuel Huapi in 1670 at the shore of the Nah ...

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Río Negro Province, Río Negro Province - History, Río Negro Province - Geography and climate, Río Negro Province - Economy, Río Negro Province - Tourism, Río Negro Province - Political division

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Argentina being almost 4,000 kilometres long, and more than 1,000 km wide, long distance transportation is an important issue. Besides a few toll highways, there are lots of national and provincial routes that spread thought the country, and that are used by cars and long distance buses. Transportation in Argentina - Routes and highways. Argentine's routes are usually simple one-lane-per-side roads. There are a few highways between some important cities, such as the Panamerican Argentina Highway 9 Buenos A ...

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Buenos Aires produced about 600,000 cattle a year, of which about one quarter was consumed locally, which considerably helped the development of the area. But wars with Great Britain meant a great setback for the region's economy as maritime communications were practically paralyzed. The Alto Peru region started to show contempt as the expenses of administration and defense of the Río de la Plata estuary were mainly supported by the declining Potosí production. For instance, in the first years of the viceroyalty, around 75% of the e ...

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The aboriginals that inhabited the provinces before the arrival of the Spanish colonisation where the Pampas and other subgroups such as the Querandíes, but their culture has be lost for they have been almost exterminated, and the few survivals joined other tribes. Pedro de Mendoza founded Santa María del Buen Ayre, and even though the first contact with the aboriginals was peaceful, soon became hostile. The city was evacuated in 1541. Juan de Garay re-founded it in 1580 as Santísima Trinid ...

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Transportation in Argentina - Railways. Total: 38,326 km (160 km electrified) Broad gauge: 24,481 km 1.676-m gauge (134 km electrified) Standard gauge: 2,765 km 1.435-m gauge (26 km electrified) Narrow gauge: 11,080 km 1.000-m gauge (1999) City with metro: Buenos Aires (subte). There are two modern tram lines (E2 and "Tren de la Costa") and an heritag ...

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Portuguese prime minister Pombal continued to encourage the occupation of territory which had already been awarded to the Spanish in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. King Charles III quickly reacted to the advantageous conditions: France was bound to be an ally as a guarantor of the treaty, and England due to its own colony problems couldn't help being neutral. Cevallos sent a warning and started aggressions against Santa Catalina, from where the Portuguese had already fled, and it was conquered in less than a month with no casualties. Th ...

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See also Viceroyalty of Peru. In 1680, Portuguese governor of Rio de Janeiro Manuel Lobo created the Department of Colonia and founded Colonia, a fort located in present Uruguay's coast and the department's capital. The main objective was to secure the region from Spanish expansionism. José de Garro quickly attacked and seized the fort for Spain, but on May 7, 1681 it was handed back to Portugal due to the Provisional Treaty of Lisbon. On the other hand, the Viceroyalty of Peru required all commerce to be perform ...

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Transportation in Argentine cities might seem chaotic by European standards, but bottlenecks and gridlocks are not very frequent. Most people try to use public transport instead of personal cars when going to the centre, since parking can be both difficult and expensive. Public transportation (buses, urban trains and the underground) is subsidized by the state, which makes it usually inexpensive. ...

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At the north of the Patagonia, the Limay River serves as natural border with the Neuquén Province to the West, as the Colorado River does with La Pampa Province to the North. The parallel 42 marks the southern limit of the province. The main water source at the arid plains that cover most of the province is the Río Negro River, in whose valley most of the settlements and farms are located. The over 600 km of the Rio Negro's valley are divided in Alto ...

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Río Negro Province, Río Negro Province - History, Río Negro Province - Geography and climate, Río Negro Province - Economy, Río Negro Province - Tourism, Río Negro Province - Political division

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The weather of the Buenos Aires Provinces is temperate with average temperatures between 10 and 25 °C. At the coast, the wind from sea cools down the nights during the summer and keeps a high humidity during the winters. Precipitations vary from 500 mm to 1,000 mm per year on the coast, and due to the flatness of the terrain can produce flooding. The geography of the province is crossed by occasional occasional west Pampero winds. The southern Sudestada produces storms and temperature drops, most notably the Tormenta de Santa Rosa storm[1], which ta ...

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The Buenos Aires province has an area of 307,571 km² and its neighbouring provinces clockwise from the southwest are Rio Negro, La Pampa, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Entre Rios. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean. The landscape is mainly flat, with two low mountain ranges; Sierra de la Ventana (near Bahía Blanca) and Sierra de Tandil (Tandil). The highest point is Cerro Tres Picos (1.239 m amsl) a ...

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Even though cattle is historical the main animal raising activity, Buenos Aires is also the first producer of sheep, pork, and chicken meat of the country. Equally important is the Dairy industry. The other main activity of the province that became even more important that cattle in the last decades is the agriculture. The most important crops include soybean, maize, wheat, sunflower. These are also industrialised in mills for oil. The industry of the province is diverse. Chemical, metallurgic, auto-mechanics, textile and food industry are the most notable, and signif ...

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Tourist mainly from Buenos Aires visit the Atlantic coast. There are many cities and town along the coast line that starts some 250 kilometres from Buenos Aires after the San Borombón Bay. Among them, the biggest and most important is Mar del Plata, followed by Pinamar, Villa Gesell, Miramar and Necochea. Other destinations include the Sierras of Tandil, Tigre and the many islands of the Río de la Plata delta, the Martín García Island, the Chascomús Lagoon, and the La Plata city. Lately agritourism in estancias ranches has become somew ...

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The economy of the province is concentrated in the agriculture at the fertile valleys of the Río Negro River, specially at the Alto Valle but also at the Valle Medio. The province produces almost 70% of the apples and pears of the country, most it for exportation with 38% of it as fresh fruit and 40% as juice concentrate, through the port of San Antonio Oeste. In the Valle Medio, besides apples and pears, tomatoes (specially around Lamarque), onions and other fresh vegetables are produced for local and national consumption. The crops around the city of El Bolsón are mainly berries ...

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Río Negro Province, Río Negro Province - History, Río Negro Province - Geography and climate, Río Negro Province - Economy, Río Negro Province - Tourism, Río Negro Province - Political division

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There are two main areas of tourism in the province; the Andes and the Atlantic coast. The Andean Area The most visited area is that of the lake district near San Carlos de Bariloche inside the Nahuel Huapi National Park, and neighbouring Neuquén Province. This includes the Isla Victoria, Camino de los Siete Lagos, Los Arrayanes National Park, and many trekking paths among lakes. The Cerro Catedral ski centre is the biggest in South America and is visited by people from all South America, and ...

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