Capital : Buenos Aires. President: Cristina Fernndez de kirchner. Currency : Peso. Is the second largest country in South America.

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The earliest evidence of humans in Argentina is in Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz), and dates from 11,000 BC. The Inca Empire, under King Pachacutec, invaded, and conquered present-day northwestern Argentina in 1480, a feat usually attributed to Tpac Inca Yupanqui. A wave of foreign investment and immigration from Europe after 1875 led to the strengthening of a cohesive state, the development of modern agriculture and to a near-reinvention of Argentine society and the economy.

William Carr Beresford surrenders to Santiago de Liniers at the end of the first of the British invasions of the Ro de la Plata.

Eva and Juan Pern during his 1946-55 presidency.

Jos de San Martn, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Per.

Nstor Kirchner applauds his wife and successor, Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner, upon her inaugural in 2007.

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The Paran and the Uruguay join to form the Ro de la Plata estuary, before reaching the Atlantic. The generally temperate climate ranges from subtropical in the north to subpolar in the far south. The north is characterized by very hot, humid summers with mild drier winters, and is subject to periodic droughts. The Argentine Constitution of 1853 mandates a separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches at the national and provincial level. The political framework is a federal representative democratic republic, in which the President is both head of state and head of government,

Thunderstorm in western Argentina

Topographic map of Argentina andes mountains, patagonia

The Argentine National Congress

The Casa Rosada, seat of the Executive branch

The Supreme Court of Argentina

Argentina has abundant natural resources, a welleducated population, an export-oriented agricultural sector and a relatively diversified industrial base. The dictatorship's chief economist, Jos Alfredo Martnez de Hoz, advanced a disorganized, corrupt, monetarist[78] financial liberalization that increased the debt burden and interrupted industrial development and upward social mobility; Argentina has, after its neighbour Chile, the secondhighest Human Development Index and GDP per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America.

The Buenos Aires waterfront and three sectors leading the recent economic recovery: construction

Newbery Airfield connects the vast nation to its capital, and to neighbouring Uruguay. International flights operate through Ministro Pistarini Airport at Ezeiza.

Freight rail yard in Rosario. The nations' railways move 25 million metric tons of cargo annually.[74]

Caf de los Angelitos, a meeting point for musical and l iterary talent, like many Argentine coffee houses