Category: South America

Mar del Plata Mar Del Plata is the main beach resort of Argentina, which received this status at the beginning of the last century. Once upon a time, the Argentine nobility rested here, thanks to which a modest city on the Atlantic coast turned into a resort of European level. Today, more than a million tourists visit the resort during the season, which lasts 3 months - from December to March. The city has a well-developed infrastructure, a large hotel base, many casinos, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Mar del Plata is also one of the country's sports centers, hosting the Olympic Stadium, which hosted the 1978 FIFA World Cup games. For lovers of golf and water sports, the resort has created all kinds of complexes and offers numerous services. The…

The coup of Videla, the dictatorship, the tragedy of the disappeared. Meanwhile, the economic situation recorded a surge in inflation and the worsening of the conflict between the CGT and the government. Faced with the worsening of social instability, a new government was formed and the Ministry of the Interior entrusted to the military, while General JR Videla took advantage of the total crisis of the institutions to carry out a coup d'état in 1976. Significant was the presentation of an economic plan characterized by the reversal of the positions of the Peronists, that is, favorable to the investments of foreign capital and the blocking of inflation, in a general framework of return to an economy based on large farms and large land ownership. The military also launched a harsh repressive…

The pre-Columbian phase. Various Amerindian populations lived in the Argentine territory before the European colonization. Some of them were extremely backward, while in the North-West provinces a group of sedentary populations, the diaghites, possessed a higher civilization, similar to that of ancient Peru. Tribes of hunters (puelche, querandí, mocoví, abipón) instead populated the Pampas and the southern Chaco. The Araucans were found in the Andes, while Guaraní tribes lived between Paraná and Uruguay, and Patagonian and Fuegine tribes in the southern territories. In the wooded plains of central and northern Chaco lived the mataco, toba, pilagá, etc. tribes, whose economy was essentially based on hunting and fishing. Overall the population was low, also given the modest technological level of the indigenous tribes, From conquest to independence. The European penetration in Argentina began…

Located between the Andes in the west and the Atlantic in the east, Argentina is a country of burning passion and spectacular beauty, with dramatic mountains, waterfalls at Iguazu, the vast grasslands of the Pampas, wonderful estancias where you can ride for days without seeing another soul and the cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires. This unique country evokes images of tango dancers, elegant architecture, gauchos on horseback, polo and appetizing steaks - it's easy to see why Argentina is one of the most popular destinations in South America. Add the fascinating culture and lunar landscape of the northwest, the beautiful vineyards around Mendoza, and the incredible marine wildlife of the Valdes Peninsula or the fascinating wetlands of Ibera and you get a dynamic and infinitely varied combination of experiences to…