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The Natural World
Argentina. For anyone raised on
National Geographic
and adventure stor-
ies, the name is loaded with images: the Magellanic penguins of the Atlantic
coast, the windswept mysteries of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the vast
grasslands of the pampas, the towering Andes and raging Iguazú Falls.
Spanning from the subtropics to the edge of Antarctica, the country is
simply unmatched in natural wonders.
The Land
With a total land area of about 2.8 million sq km, Argentina is the world's eighth-largest
country. It stretches from La Quiaca on the Bolivian border, where summers can be bru-
tally hot, to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, where winters are experienced only by seasoned
