From the west, Llanos is bordered by the northernmost spurs of the Andes – the Cordillera de Merida ranges. Within one of the ranges – the Sierra Nevada de Merida – is the highest point in Venezuela – Peak Bolivar (5007 m). This is one of the best places in the country for hiking. According […]
El Calafate is a picturesque town on the shores of Lake Argentino in southern Patagonia, surrounded by plateaus, founded in 1927; differs from the rest of Patagonia by its mild microclimate. The city lives mainly on tourism. Here is amazing nature, bright blue water surface of the lake, small cozy bars and restaurants, local residents, […]
Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. It is a Brazilian federal public higher education institution, specialized in the areas of health sciences. Historical review The construction of the UFRGS university hospital and the great demand for doctors in the State in the 1950sdetermined the foundation of the Catholic Faculty of Medicine (FCM[i]), as […]
National University of Rio Negro (UNRN). Public university of Argentina created in December 2007 by law 26,330. The first school cycle of the UNRN began in March 2009, being the newest in the country to date. Historical review The National University of Río Negro was created in response to the historic claim of Rio Negro […]
Perón officially assumed power on June 4, 1946, supported by the trade union forces and the proletarian and petty-bourgeois masses who hoped for the advent of a democratic, national-popular regime, capable of definitively overthrowing the dominance of the landed oligarchy in the power since 1930. The popularity of the new president greatly contributed to that […]
The archaeological research carried out in the territory of the Argentine republic has given a very abundant material, useful above all to establish the degree of culture of the indigenous peoples encountered by the Europeans at the time of the discovery and the first colonization, and largely disappeared or absorbed during development of the latter. […]
The Argentine territory appears to us with its own faunal characteristics since the last times of the Mesozoic era; before this time the layers of the earth offer us only hints of marine fauna, more or less similar to those discovered in other countries; the cretaceous formations instead contain the remains of a terrestrial fauna […]
In the pre-colonial era, Argentina had a very low population, also given the modest technological level of the indigenous tribes, which did not allow to exploit the agricultural potential of the territory. Even the Europeans, at first, did not show particular interest in this area, which is difficult to penetrate (except along the Paraná route), […]
The literature of the last twenty years in Argentina has undergone various influences of European currents, from existentialism to structuralism, which not only conditioned philosophical studies and militant criticism, but profoundly influenced artistic creation itself: it is enough to observe the constant presence of themes such as the Heideggerian “living for death” in novelists and […]
The library of the National Council of Women should also be mentioned, which carries out an intense work of education and teaching: it has obtained the official recognition of its diplomas as secretary, translator, teacher of declamation, languages, etc. Archives. – The main Argentine historical archive is the Archivo general de la nación, founded in 1821. […]
