Showing posts with label argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label argentina. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Argentina ... 11
The official national sport of Argentina is pato, played
with a six-handle ball on horseback, but the most popular sport is association
football. The national football team has won 25 major international titles
including two FIFA World Cups, two Olympic gold medals and fourteen Copa
Américas. Over one thousand Argentine players play abroad, the majority of them
in European football leagues. Basketball is the second most popular sport. The
men's national basketball team won Olympic gold in the 2004 Olympics and the
bronze medal in 2008. Argentina is currently ranked first by the International
Basketball Federation. Argentina has an important rugby union football team,
"Los Pumas", with many of its players playing in Europe. Argentina
beat host nation France twice in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, placing them third
in the competition. The Pumas are currently eighth in the official world
rankings.[138] Other popular sports include field hockey, tennis, auto racing,
boxing, volleyball, polo and golf.
The Argentine National Anthem was adopted in 1813, written
by Vicente López y Planes with music by Blas Parera, although it was shortened
to only three paragraphs without the vivid attacks against Spain. The Cockade
of Argentina was first used during the May Revolution and was made official two
years later. The Hornero, which habitates in almost all the national territory
was made Argentina's national animal unanimously in 1927. The ceibo is its
national flower and tree, pato, its national sport, asado its national dish,
the Rhodochrosite its national stone, the Virgin of Lujan its patron saint and
wine its national liquor.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Argentina .. 10
In the 2010 census were of 40,091,359 inhabitants. Argentina
ranks third in South America in total population and 33rd globally. As with
other areas of new settlement such as Canada, Australia, and the United States,
Argentina is considered a country of immigrants. Most Argentines are descended
from colonial-era settlers, and 19th and 20th century immigrants from Europe.
Argentina was second only to the US in the numbers of European immigrants
received. The majority of these European immigrants came from Italy and Spain.
Recent Illegal immigration has mostly been coming from Bolivia and Paraguay,
with smaller numbers from Peru, Ecuador and Romania.
The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion but also
requires the government to support Roman Catholicism economically. Until 1994
the President and Vice President had to be Roman Catholic, though there were no
such restrictions on other government officials.
The official language of Argentina is Spanish, usually
called castellano (Castilian) by Argentines. The most prevalent dialect is
Rioplatense, whose speakers are primarily located in the Río de la Plata basin.
Argentina is highly urbanized. The ten largest metropolitan
areas account for half of the population, and fewer than one in ten live in
rural areas.
Argentine culture has significant European influences.
Buenos Aires, its cultural capital, is largely characterized by both the
prevalence of people of European descent, and of conscious imitation of
European styles in architecture. The other big influence is the gauchos and
their traditional country lifestyle of self-reliance. Finally, indigenous
American traditions have been absorbed into the general cultural milieu.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Argentina ..9
Argentina
has contributed many distinguished doctors, scientists and inventors to the
world, including three Nobel Prize laureates in sciences. Argentines have been
responsible for major breakthroughs in world medicine; their research has led
to significant advances in wound-healing therapies and in the treatment of
heart disease and several forms of cancer. Domingo Liotta designed and
developed the first artificial heart successfully implanted in a human being in
1969. René Favaloro developed the techniques and performed the world's first
ever coronary bypass surgery, and Francisco de Pedro invented a more reliable
artificial cardiac pacemaker. Bernardo Houssay, the first Latin American
awarded with a Nobel Prize in the Sciences, discovered the role of pituitary
hormones in regulating glucose in animals; César Milstein did extensive
research in antibodies; Luis Leloir discovered how organisms store energy
converting glucose into glycogen and the compounds which are fundamental in
metabolizing carbohydrates. A team led by Alberto Taquini and Eduardo
Braun-Menéndez discovered angiotensin in 1939, and was the first to describe
the enzymatic nature of the renin-angiotensin system and its role in
hypertension. The Leloir Institute of biotechnology is among the most
prestigious in its field in Latin America and in the world. Dr. Luis Agote
devised the first safe method of blood transfusion; Enrique Finochietto
designed operating table tools such as the surgical scissors that bear his name
and a surgical rib-spreader. They have likewise contributed to bioscience in
efforts like the Human Genome Project, where Argentine scientists have
successfully mapped the genome of a living being, a world first.
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Argentina .......... 2
Argentina is divided into twenty-three provinces and one
Autonomous City. Buenos Aires Province is divided into 134 partidos, while the
remaining Provinces are divided into 376 departments. Departments and Partidos
are further subdivided into municipalities or districts. With the exception of
Buenos Aires Province, the nation's provinces have chosen in recent years to
enter into treaties with other provinces, forming four federated regions aimed
at fostering economic integration and development: Center Region, Patagonic
Region, New Cuyo Region, and the Argentine Greater North Region.
The total surface area is 2,766,891.2 km2, of
which 30,200 km2 is water. Argentina is about 3,900 km long from north to
south, and 1,400 km from east to west. The highest point above sea level is in
Mendoza province at Cerro Aconcagua. The lowest point is Laguna del Carbón in
Santa Cruz province, −105 m below sea level. The major rivers are the Paraná,
the Pilcomayo, Paraguay, Bermejo, Colorado, Río Negro, Salado and the Uruguay.
There are several large lakes including Argentino and Viedma in Santa Cruz,
Nahuel Huapi between Río Negro and Neuquén, Fagnano in Tierra del Fuego, and
Colhué Huapi and Musters in Chubut. Lake Buenos Aires and O'Higgins/San Martín
Lake are shared with Chile. Mar Chiquita, Córdoba, is the largest salt water
lake in the country. There are numerous reservoirs created by dams. The 4,665
km long Atlantic coast has been a popular local vacation area for over a
century, and varies between areas of sand dunes and cliffs. The continental
platform is unusually wide; this shallow area of the Atlantic is called the
Argentine Sea. The waters are rich in fisheries and possibly hold important
hydrocarbon energy resources. The two major ocean currents affecting the coast
are the warm Brazil Current and the cold Falkland Current. Because of the
unevenness of the coastal landmass, the two currents alternate in their
influence on climate and do not allow temperatures to fall evenly with higher
latitude. The southern coast of Tierra del Fuego forms the north shore of the
Drake Passage.
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