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Facts About Argentina

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Did you know that Argentina has the largest land mass in South America?! Well, it does. Argentina is an amazing country, so in this paper, you will read the reasons why it’s such a great country. You will read about, what seems like a bunch of jargon, Geography, Sports, Government, economy, imports and exports, laws, animals, and many more. But first, I am going to give you some random fun facts.
Here are some fun facts about Argentina. Pope Francis is a native Argentinian. He once worked as a bar bouncer in Buenos Aires. Argentina is said to have the highest infidelity rate in all of South America. Divorce has been legal in the country since 1987, and now the country has the highest divorce rate as well. The name “Argentina” comes from …show more content…

The oldest predator dinosaur found to date, the Eoraptor, was also discovered in Argentina in 1993. The city of Ushuaia, on the Argentine side of the island of Tierra del Fuego, lays claim to be the southernmost inhabited city in the world. Buenos Aires has more psychoanalysts and psychiatrists than any other city in the world. It even has its own psychoanalytic district called “Ville Freud.” It is estimated that there are 145 psychologists for every 100,000 residents in the city. The Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia is the third largest reserve of freshwater in the world and one of only three glaciers in Argentina that is growing, not shrinking. In 1971, the embalmed body of Evita Perón was exhumed and flown to Spain, where her husband and ex-president of Argentina, Juan Perón, and his new wife Isabelita kept it in their dining room until he died in 1974. Pedro Martin Ureta, a heartbroken Argentine farmer, spent decades cultivating a guitar-shaped forest to honor his late wife, who died tragically at the age of 25. In 2001, Argentina had 5 …show more content…

Carlos Saúl Menem, the son of Syrian immigrants, became Argentina’s first Muslim president in 1989. He had had to convert to Catholicism earlier, though, because, until 1994, the law stated all presidents of Argentina had to be Roman Catholic. His Syrian ancestry earned him the nickname “El Turco” (The Turk). Many gauchos, or Argentine cowboys, were of Jewish origin. The first recorded instance of mass Jewish immigration to Argentina was in the late 19th century, when 800 Russian Jews arrived in Buenos Aires after fleeing persecution from Czar Alexander III. The Jewish-Colonization Association began distributing 100-hectare parcels of land to immigrant families. Argentina’s workforce is 40% female, and women also hold over 30% of Argentina’s congressional seats. At its mouth, Argentina's Rio de la Plata is an amazing 124 miles (200 km) wide, making it the widest river in the world, although some consider it more of an estuary. Veneration for the dead is so widespread across Argentina that the Argentines have been described as being “cadaver cultists.” In La Recoleta Cemetery, in Buenos Aires, tomb space goes for as much

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