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Cataratas de Iguazú |
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The waterfall system consists of about 270 falls along 2.7 kilometres (1.67 miles) of the Iguazu River. Some of the individual falls are up to 82 metres (269 feet) in height, though the majority are about 64 metres (210 feet). The Garganta del Diablo or Devil's Throat (Garganta do Diabo in Portuguese), a U-shaped 150-metre-wide and 700-metre-long (490 by 2300 feet) cliff, is the most impressive of all, and marks the border between Argentina and Brazil.
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Glaciar Perito Moreno |
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The National Park and Natural Reserve "Los Glaciares", declared by UNESCO Site of World-wide Patrimony (natural), are constituted by the lakes Viedma, Argentino and his environs, and that part of the ice field includes the glaciers Moreno, Onelli, Agassiz and Upsala with a front of 5 km descend. The most amazing glacier is the Perito Moreno that descends to the Argentino Lake.
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Peninsula Valdés |
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This region presents/displays particular climatologicas characteristics due to its geografica situation. The annual average temperature is of 14 centigrados degrees, with maximum in summer of 35 degrees centigrados, and one minim in inferior winter to the 5 degrees Celsius. The precipitations are little in summer..., and also in winter.
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Bariloche |
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San Carlos de Bariloche is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina, situated on the foothills of the Andes, surrounded by lakes (Nahuel Huapi, Gutiérrez Lake, Moreno Lake and Mascardi Lake) and mountains (Tronador, Cerro Catedral, Cerro López). It is famous for skiing but also great for sight-seeing, water sports, trekking and climbing. Cerro Catedral is one of the most important ski centers in South America.
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Ushuaia |
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Tierra del Fuego, Argentina |
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It is the most austral city of the world and is surrounded by the mountain range Martial with the gorgeous Glacier, and by imposing Canal Beagle. Located in the South end of the continent is a only 1,000 km away of the Antarctica peninsula and to 3,040 km of the city of Buenos Aires.
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Antartida |
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Their 14 million square kilometers throughout remain under the ice. In addition to being an extensive continent the Antarctica is the highest continent, with an approximated average altitude of 2,050 meters over the sea level, this is because of the thick ice layer that covers this continent.
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Villa la Angostura |
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Villa La Angostura (Spanish for Narrowness-ville; Welsh language Lle Cul) is a town on the south of the Argentine province of Neuquén, on the northwest shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake. The town is located halfway between the cities of San Martín de los Andes and Bariloche, inside the Nahuel Huapi National Park, very close to the isthmus of the Quetrihue Peninsula, where the Los Arrayanes National Park and its arrayanes (Luma apiculata) forest is located.
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