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, […]

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. […]

The Argentine economy is marked by the discrepancy between the considerable availability of resources and the inadequacy of the technical-financial mechanisms, which dates back to the demagogic forcing imposed in the 1950s by Peronism on the structural growth of the country. Endowed with a remarkable and diversified industry, the Argentina it has often discounted the […]

The economy of Argentina still has its main foundation on agriculture and cattle breeding. The cultivated area is occupied by the traditional cultivation of cereals for about half; and we still find wheat in the first place, which in 1957-58 was cultivated on 5,307,600 ha and gave a production of 53,000,000 q; but there is […]

Culture According to Listofusnewspapers, the development of sculpture was shorter and faster in Argentina. If we leave aside the impersonal and anonymous work proper to the natives of the Jesuit missions (or attributed to them), the natives began their pioneering activity in the territory belatedly. Only two names summarize the national sculpture up to the […]

An evaluation in January 1936 puts the population (p. 200) at 12,374,000 residents, That is 4.7 per sq km. The following table gives the absolute and relative population of the provinces and territories at that date (see p. 212). According to necessaryhome, the population of the main cities (p. 213), again as of January 1936, […]

In the 1979-90 period, the Argentine economy was characterized by a high rate of inflation, recurrent balance of payments difficulties and frequent changes in the direction of economic policies. Starting from the end of 1978, the government, to lower expected inflation, began to announce what the exchange rate would be in the following months, imposing […]

The elections of 1983 saw the victory of the radical candidate R. Alfonsín, who had led a campaign centered on the need to prosecute the military responsible for the various dictatorships. Thus, in 1985 trials were opened against 8 members of the juntas in power from 1976 to 1983, but the uprisings of the Armed Forces […]

From the northern border to the far south, pre-Columbian Argentina was inhabited by nomadic tribes of Indians of different cultures, who lived autonomously and separately in groups with demographic density differing from region and region. Many tribes were at a stage of civilization corresponding to the European Neolithic; only the northwestern edges of the country’s […]