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Act of Chapultepec
Chapultepec, Act of, signed at the pan-American conference in Mexico City held 21 February– 8 March 1945. The conference was held in a museum on Chapultepec Hill, hence the Act's name, and was first proposed by Argentina the government of which was not recognized by the Allied powers. The US... Read more |
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Uruguay (river)
Uruguay yoo´regwā, gwī, Span. ooroogwi´, ooroowī´ , river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, rising in S Brazil and flowing in an arc W, SW, and S to the Río de la Plata, an estuary; it forms part of the Brazil-Argentina border and most of the Argentina-Uruguay... Read more |
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Bermejo
Bermejo, Argentina‐Bolivia A river rising in Bolivia which joins the Paraguay River. The silt that it carries down stream gives it its name ‘reddish (colour)’ from the Spanish bermejo. There is also a town with this name in Argentina, but it is over 600 miles (965 km)... Read more |
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Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia , city (1991 pop. 124,151), Chubut prov., S Argentina, on the Gulf of San Jorge, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The major center of oil production in Argentina, it is connected by a 1,100-mi (1,770-km) pipeline with Buenos Aires. A government-owned corporation runs the oil wells.... Read more |
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Argentina
Argentina area:2,766,890sq km (1,068,296sq mi)population:36,027,041capital (population):Buenos Aires (13,755,993)government:Federal republicethnic groups:European 85%, Mestizo, Native Americanlanguages:Spanish (official)religions:Christianity (Roman Catholic 92%)currency:Peso = 100 centavosRepublic... Read more |
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Lucio Fontana
Fontana, Lucio (1899–1968). Italian painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, born in Argentina, the son of an Italian sculptor, Luigi Fontana, and an Argentinian mother. In 1905 his family moved to Milan, where he studied sculpture, first with his father and then (after spending several years in... Read more |
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Aconcagua
Aconcagua , peak, 22,835 ft (6,960 m) high, Mendoza prov., W Argentina, in the Andes, near the Chilean border. It is the highest peak of the Western Hemisphere. The snowcapped Aconcagua was first scaled in 1897. Uspallata Pass is nearby. See also Ojos del Salado .... Read more |
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Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata , city (1991 pop. 519,707), E central Argentina, on the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts in South America. Fishing and fish processing are also important industries. The city was founded in the 1850s. It has two universities.... Read more |
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Moreno
Moreno city (1991 pop. 287,188), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a residential and district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. The district was the scene of several major battles during the Argentine War of Independence and the mid-19th-century unitarian-federalist... Read more |
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Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul , state (1996 pop. 9,445,000), 108,951 sq mi (282,183 sq km), S Brazil, bordering on Argentina and Uruguay and on the Atlantic Ocean. Pôrto Alegre is the capital.... Read more |
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