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    Argentina

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    República Argentina  (Spanish)
    Argentine Republic
    Flag of Argentina Coat of arms of Argentina
    Flag Coat of arms
    MottoEn unión y libertad
    "In Union and Liberty"
    AnthemHimno Nacional Argentino
    Location of Argentina
    Capital
    (and largest city)
    Buenos Aires
    34°20′S, 58°30′W
    Official languages Spanish
    Recognised regional languages Welsh
    Ethnic groups  Spanish, Italian, German, Jewish, Arabs, Armenian, Welsh, Irish, British, French, Native American, African, Mestizo, Castizo
    Demonym Argentine
    Government Federal presidential republic
     -  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
     -  Vice President Julio Cobos
    Independence from Spain 
     -  May Revolution 25 May 1810 
     -  Declared 9 July 1816 
    Area
     -  Total 2,780,403 km² (8th)
    1,078,757 sq mi 
     -  Water (%) 1.1
    Population
     -  2008 estimate 40,677,348 (30th)
     -  2001 census 36,260,130 
    GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
     -  Total $523.7 billion (2007)[1] (23rd)
     -  Per capita $13,307 (2007)[2][3] (57th)
    GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate
     -  Total $260.7 billion[4] (31st)
     -  Per capita $6,548 (66th)
    Gini (2006) 49[5] 
    HDI (2005) 0.869 (high) (38th)
    Currency Peso (ARS)
    Time zone ART (UTC-3)
     -  Summer (DST) ART (UTC-2)
    Internet TLD .ar
    Calling code +54
    Argentina also has a territorial dispute with the United Kingdom over an additional 1,000,000 km² (386,102 sq mi) of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

    Argentina (officially República Argentina Spanish pronunciation: [reˈpuβlika aɾxenˈtina]), is a South American country, constituted as a federation of twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in size on the South American continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890 km² (1,068,302 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. Argentina also claimed 969,464 km² (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile (Chilean Antarctic Territory) and the United Kingdom (British Antarctic Territory), but all such claims are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1957.

    Argentina has the highest Human Development Index level and the second highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America.[6]. Argentina's nominal GDP is the 31st largest in the world;[7] when purchasing power is taken into account, however, its total GDP makes it the 23rd largest economy in the world.[8][9]

    The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country[10] or as a secondary emerging market by the World Bank.[11][12]

    Etymology

    The name Argentina (from Latin argentum: silver) was first used extensively in the 1612 book Historia del descubrimiento, población, y conquista del Río de la Plata (History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the Río de la Plata) by Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, naming the territory Tierra Argentina (Land of Silver).[13][14]

    History

    Río de la Plata aboriginals, as pictured by Hendrick Ottsen (1603).
    Río de la Plata aboriginals, as pictured by Hendrick Ottsen (1603).
    Buenos Aires Cabildo, scene of the 1810 resolution that led to independence.
    Buenos Aires Cabildo, scene of the 1810 resolution that led to independence.
    Main article: History of Argentina

    The first signs of human presence in Argentina are located in the Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz), and date from 11,000 BC(Santa María, Huarpes, Diaguitas, Sanavirones, among others). In 1480, the Inca Empire under the rule of king Pachacutec launched an offensive and conquered present-day northwestern Argentina, integrating it into a region called Collasuyu. In the northeastern area, the Guaraní developed a culture based on yuca and sweet potato. The central and southern areas (Pampas and Patagonia) were dominated by nomadic cultures, unified in the seventeenth century by the Mapuches.

    Gen. Jose de San Martin, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru.
    Gen. Jose de San Martin, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru.

    European explorers arrived in 1516. Spain established a permanent colony on the site of Buenos Aires in 1580; the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was created in 1776. During the early part of this period it was largely a country of Spanish immigrants and their descendants, known as criollos, some of them gathered in Buenos Aires and other cities, others living on the pampas as gauchos. Descendants of African slaves (See:Afro-Argentines) were present in significant numbers. Indigenous peoples inhabited much of the rest of Argentina. In 1806 and 1807 the British Empire launched two invasions to Buenos Aires, but the criollo population repelled both attempts. On May 25, 1810, after confirmation of the rumors about the overthrow of King Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, citizens of Buenos Aires created the First Government Junta (May Revolution).Two nations emerged in what is now Argentina United Provinces of South America (1810) and Liga Federal (1815) Other provinces through the reluctance of some factions and the centralist tendencies of the more radical activists delayed a combined State. In the meantime, Paraguay declared its independence in 1811.

    Gov. Juan Manuel de Rosas during his 1829-52 reign of terror, in which he held the fragile confederacy together.
    Gov. Juan Manuel de Rosas during his 1829-52 reign of terror, in which he held the fragile confederacy together.
    Buenos Aires Customs House, ca. 1880.  Maritime trade had long been central to the city; after 1875 it became a cornerstone of national development.
    Buenos Aires Customs House, ca. 1880. Maritime trade had long been central to the city; after 1875 it became a cornerstone of national development.

    Military campaigns led by General José de San Martín between 1814 and 1817 made independence increasingly a reality. In 1820 Liga Federal was crushed by forces of the United Provinces of South America and Portugal armies from Brazil and its provinces absorbed into United Provinces of South America. Argentines revere San Martín, who campaigned in Argentina, Chile, and Peru, as the hero of their national independence. On July 9, 1816, a Congress gathered in Tucumán (the Congress of Tucumán) and finally issued a formal declaration of independence from Spain. Bolivia declared itself independent in 1825, and Uruguay was created in 1828 as a result of the Argentina-Brazil War. In 1818, General José de San Martín crossed the Andes to free Chile and Peru, thus eliminating the Spanish threat. Centralist and federalist groups (Spanish: Unitarios and Federales) were in conflict until national unity was established and the constitution promulgated in 1853. The constitution was strongly defended in moving oratory by the patriot and Franciscan Mamerto Esquiú, for whom one of the country's departments is named. From 1865 to 1870, the bloody War of Triple Alliance was fought by Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay against Paraguay.

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