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BOLIVIA
La Qufacay
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ilco
SCHACO
Paraguay
Pan American Highway System
in darker red
Maimará
San Salvador
de Jujuy
- STATUTE MILES
Llullaillaco Volcano
DEL REY
22,057
Sta
RÍO PILCOMAYOAsunción
Iguaçu (Iguazú)
Curitiba.
E
San Miguel
de Tucumán
CHACO
.
Mt. Ojos del Salado
22,572
Resistencia
E
Mt. Bonete
22,546
Santiago del Estero
Corrientes
BRAZIL
Catamarca
MI A"
Salinas Grant's
(salt basin
L
Ughe Mar
Chiquita
-
San Juan
Córdoba
Santa Fe
Mt. Aconcagua 22,834
(Highest elevation Mt. Mercedario
Parahar
ES
DEL PALMAR
NATIONAL PARK
in Western Hemispherele
22,411
Vit. Champaqui
462
AND RESERVE
i Mendoza
Rosario
Valparaíso,
Mt. Tupungsto-
URUGUAY
Santiago*
Piso de la Cumbre (Uspallata Pas).
Buenos
Pacific
Ezeiza Airport
Montevideo
Ocean I MENevado
Atuel
12,500
P
Atlantic Ocean
Domuyo Volcan
P
Olavarría
ADIL
Villa Gesell
GAS
WMt. Tres Picos
C
Bahia Blanca
4,078
Argentina
LAGUNA BLANCA O
NAT. PARK
Colorado
12.388 \ LAMIN
NAHUEL HUAPIZ
Llao Liao Like Nahuel Huapi
San Carlos de Bariloche
San Matías
Gulf
Valdés Peninsula
LIRLIELO
Puerto Madryn
(Lowest point in
South America)
lio de
LOS ALERCES!
Esquel
Treley
-13/
Janeiro
·Trevelin
Gaiman. Rawson
PIC OF CAPRICORN"
300
A OIL
Sarmiento
120º
Lake .
Comodoro Rivadavia
Gulf of
San Jorge
ANTARCTICA
Mt. San Lorenzo
12,139.6
a BOSQUES PETRIFICADOS
MATURAL MONUMENT
PERITO MORENO(
P
Continental ice cap-
Mt. Murallón
11,8// 3
Lake Viedma
LOS GLACIARES
Lake Argentino
nºCalafate
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
United Kingdom,
claimed by Argentina
Rio Gallegos
AGAS
Strait of Magellan
O
Rio Grande
Tierra del Fuego
TIERRA DEL FUEGOL
302
UshuailHarberton
Beagle Channel -:
Claimed by Argentina and Chile
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Lanín Volcano
may
SHAPED LIKE A RIB STEAK with
the Andes for a bone, Argentina has
long been a world leader in meat pro-
duction. Some 2,300 miles long by 900
at its widest, the nation spans most
of temperate South America,
with a good climate for
food crops. Three-
‘Futaleufu
EQUATOR
AMERI
damite
Chico ... .
Lima
SOU
DENTINA
lanº
Argentine
claim-
Buenos Aires
50°
30
quarters of its people
25
300
live in urban areas,
a third in greater
Buenos Aires. During
Antarctic
600
+ SOUTH
·Peninsula
centuries of Spanish
dominion, Argentina
remained a backwater
POLE
of empire, providing mules
and supplies for mines of Peru
and Bolivia. Freedom came in 1816.
In the 1880's, waves of immigrants,
mainly Italians and Spaniards, settled
the fertile pampa.
AREA: 1,072,000
sq. mi. POPULA-
TION: 25,000,000.
CAPITAL: Buenos
Aires, 8,500,000.
LANGUAGE: Spanish. RELIGION: Roman
Catholic. ECONOMY: Farming, ranching,
manufacturing. Exports meat, hides, grain.
CLIMATE: Subtropical to subantarctic.
GRAN.
Bermejo
Iguazú Falls-
1ª IGUAZÚ
NAT. PARK
Paraná
? Salado
Dulce
A.
ruguay
Paranas
Salado
La Plata
Rio de la Plata
A
VÁzul
15,10 ??
Neuquen
Mar del Plata
El Chocon
Dam
Mt. Tronadort
11,660
Elevations in feet
À Petroleum field
National park
Layo
300
l'eun"FORMOSA NATURAL
RESERVE
DRAWN BY LEO B. ZEBARTH
.COMPILED BY GUS PLATIS
PARAGUAY
Porto Alegre