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A SPECTACULAR COUNTRY ON A GRAND SCALE, WHERE AN ELEGANT SOCIETY HAS BEEN LIVING BEYOND ITS MEANS
Most Argentines think of themselves as different from other South Americans. They consider themselves more sophisticated and better educated. Indeed. European influence is very strong, and the capital city of Buenos Aires. Where one-third of the population lives is like a European city. Most of the people are descended from European immigrants, and there IS a substantial British community in Buenos Aires a legacy of the days when the British arrived to build the railways.
Once Argentina was more prosperous than the other South American countries, but it has failed to fulfil its promise - and the rest of the continent has been catching up. In 1914, Argentina was the source of much of the world's meat and cereals. The focus of a major migration of people from Southern Europe, and seemed destined to join the ranks of the developed nations. Argentina was never to achieve this status, but it was left with a sense of its own importance which has not lessened now that it is only a middle-ranking nation m terms of power and wealth.
Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world (five times the size of France), has a population of almost 40 million, and a capital which is one of the world's great cities. The first Latin-American Nobel Prize went to an Argentinean, Carlos Saavedra (a Peace Prize in 1936).
WEALTH FROM THE PLAINS
The main source of wealth for Argentina was the vast fertile plains of the PAMPAS, which occupies the central part of the country. The major exports were at first wool and mutton from the 'e grasslands, and then beef and hides. Argentina also became one of the world's greatest sources of wheat and maize.
The great period of economic growth occurred between 1850 and 1930. Britain poured money into the country, the railways were built and a tide of immigrants arrived, mostly Spaniards and Italians fleeing from poverty in Europe. The newcomers greatly outnumbered the native Indians and the mestizos mixed-blood descendants of Indians and early Spanish settlers.
The towns grew, especially Buenos Aires as the scat of national government and the port for the increasing exports and imports. The boom was marred by the First World War in Europe, and was virtually ended by the worldwide depression of the 1930s.
From 1914 onwards, Argentina started to establish manufacturing industries: iron and steel. Cars, clothes and electrical goods. By 1950 the agricultural society had turned into an industrial one, and most Argentines earned their living in the cities. But the manufacturing sector was not able to compensate for a decline in agriculture as Argentina's hare of world food exports shrank dramatically.
Since the 1930s Argentina's economy has been the source of grave social and political problems: inflation has recently reached 800 per cent a year, and today Argentina has a huge national debt amounting to USSI500 for every man, Woman and child in the country. Some blame this decline on the populist leader Juan Per6n, whose economic policy after the Second World War favoured urban workers, to the detriment of agriculture. Still others blame British and United States corporations for draining profits from the country. Others blame conservative policies and successive military regimes
LAND OF THE GAUCHOS
The geography of Argentina is on a grand scale. To the west, the massive chain of the M.DES forms the border with Chile and Bolivia. It is the longest chain of mountains in the world, containing South America's highest mountain, OJOS DEL SALADO. To the south stretches the huge windswept expanse of PATAGONIA, and the breathtaking mountains and lakes around BARILOCHE. It is the geography and culture of the central plains, the pampas that are best known abroad - a vast area of flat land that accounts for most of the population outside the cities.
The pampas are the home of Argentina's cowboy heroes, the gauchos, who ride the plains on horses that never need to jump a fence. Here there are hardly any trees, only miles of grass punctuated by pylons and wind pumps for underground water. A few tree' may shelter the villages of the pampas, and eucalyptuses often line the approaches to the cattle ranches where the gauchos live and work. The ranches are known for their great barbecues, where whole Cows are roasted over open fires. The gauchos, mostly mestizos, wear dress which is romantic to foreigners: baggy knee-length trousers called bombachas, with a striped chiripa scarf wrapped around the waist and between the legs.
Away from the pampas are several other Argentinas with different lifestyles. The northwest resembles the high Bolivian plateau or altiplano. The population here is still mostly Indian and mestizo, and the economy agricultural. The land is lush with subtropical vegetation, and for this reason the area is known as the Garden of Argentina. The colonial towns with their Spanish churches and cathedrals recall the days when this region thrived before the rise of Buenos Aires and the shift of activity southwards.
The north-east is cattle and Cotton country: the GRAN CHACO plains. Farther east, between the River PARANA and the River URUGUAY, is the country which grows bitter mate tea - the gauchos' favourite drink. And farther east still, at the point where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet lays one of South America's greatest natural wonders. In the middle of the jungle, where the orange-red earth seems rusted by spray, the IGUACU FALLS thunder 64m (210ft) over a giant horseshoe 4 km (2.5 miles) wide - a wall of water, higher than Niagara and several times as wide.
Lying in the foothills of the Andes in the west is the wine-growing region around MENDOZA. This fertile area, watered by the Mendoza River, is known as the Garden of the Andes. Not only are fine wines produced here, but there are extensive market gardens, as well as some 5 million olive trees.
Three days' train journey south-west of Buenos Aires, the region around Bariloche rivals Switzerland with the grandeur of its blue lakes and snow-capped Andes, its waterfalls, glaciers and forests.
South from this alpine region the plateaus of Patagonia stretch their desolate way to TIERRA DEL FUEGO, through areas where colonies of elephant seals bask on the pebble beaches. In 1865 settlers from Wales came to farm sheep in Patagonia. Today, in remote parts of the southern Andes, at Puerto Madryn and the town of Esquel, two languages are spoken: Spanish and Welsh. For all its beauty and wealthy, naturally productive land, Argentina has consistently failed to produce what it needs to maintain reasonable living standards. The country faces an austere future as it struggles to resolve its economic problems and shake off the vestiges or authoritarian government.
Car Hire Tips
Before you leave home please make sure you take your driving licence, i.e. the plastic card and the counterpart if you hold the new style UK driving licence as to be able to release your car hire it will need to be produced at the
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Depending on the country in which you are driving the side of the road to drive could be different to that which you normally drive on so check this out in advance. Most of the European countries and the USA drive on the righthand side of the road, but the UK, Cyprus, Malta and Australia drive on the left.
Many roads have tolls so make sure you have some small change ready in the country currency.
Remember you may wish to book a vehicle with air conditioning if you are journeying in a country with a hot climate, or likewise you may need to ensure you have winter tyres for winter venues/ski resorts. Winter Tyres and Snow Chains are generally arranged direct with the local Car Hire supplier.
Rhino Car Hire offer a range of vehicles which are automatic, please select this option when booking your automatic car hire vehicle. Usually with automatic vehicles you need to put the automatic gear shift into P for Park before you can remove the ignition keys.
Remember to have a credit card with available funds to hand as optional car hire extras, i.e. child safety seats will have to be purchased with a credit card.
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