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=Country Name: Argentina= Real Name-Republica Argentina

Group Members: Maggie, Suzannah, Charlotte, Margot
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__Cultural Features-Maggie__


===Social Groups-Most of the people came from Western Europe—French, German, Austrian, British, Swiss, and Portuguese—or from Eastern Europe, including Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Turks, and South Slavs. The mestizo group is the rest of the population. Native Americans have been turned part of the population. Blacks were originally brought in as slaves but are disappearing. Since the mid-20th century many Paraguayans, Bolivians, and Chileans have crossed the border into Argentina.===

Language- There are many languages that the people of Argentina speech. The main language is Spanish but they also speak Quechua, Guarani, Araucanian, French, German, and English.
===Religion- Roman Catholic is the main language with 92% of the population with this religion. Then comes Protestant and Jewish and are both 2% of the population. Other is 4% of the population's religions.===

===Daily Life-In Argentina only 8.7% are unemployed. The main industries that people work for are food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, and steel. There government is a mixture of the U.S. and West European legal systems. This makes the people independant. There independance is on July 9, 1816 from Spain. Their constitution was writen May 1, 1853; amended many times starting in 1860. Thier currency is the Argentine peso (ARS).===

===Art-Argentina has long been noted for its life style and arts. Drama, music, painting, and sculpture have become very popular, especially in Buenous Aires, although political and economic problems in the country has acted as an obstacle to the development of the arts. Buenos Aires has still remained the center of some of the world's major international music events; many of these take place at the famous Teatro Colon.===

__Physical Features-Margot and Suzannah__
===Land Forms- The climates and soils are different, so there is a wide variety of vegetation. There are only a few trees because they have cool, dry climates. So, instead the land is covered in shrubs and grasses. There are forests and savannas in the Chaco region. Argentina is the second largest country in South America after Brazil.=== ===Water Forms- tigre river,Iguazu falls made up of 275 waterfalls, Iguazu means great waters in the native language, source, the Iguazu river, is in the mountains near the Atlantic flows westward across Brazil then enters Argentina, is 745 miles long and makes up 70 waterfalls. The most famous waterfall is Iguazu falls made up of 275 individual fallson a cliff. The cliff was made almost 100,000 years ago when a volcano erupted and the lava stopped suddenly creating a huge cliff. the cliff is 2.5 miles long and the river drops 269 feet over it.=== ===Climate- You can divide the country into four main topographical groups: the Pampas, Patagonia, the Andes, and the Northeast. The average temperature of Argentina is 74 degrees. The winter is May to August because their seasons are the opposite of ours. During the winter, it is the driest period. The southeast of Argentina is arid and in the southwest, it is subantarctic. But overall, it is mostly temperate.=== ===Animals-The mammals in the northern area, include monkeys, jaguars, pumas, ocelots, anteaters, and raccoons. The birds include flamingos, hummingbirds, and parrots. There are armadillos, foxes, martens, wildcats, hare, deer, hawks, falcons, herons, plovers, and partidges in the Pampas and some are found in the Patagonia. There are also llamas, guanacos, alpacas, and condors in the cold region of Andean. Argentina is one of the richest countries in dinosaur fossils.=== = = == = = = = =






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__Current Issues-Charlotte-Suzannah__
===Current Events: The Argentina National Soccer team in now being coached by Alfio Basile. This is his second time coaching the team, he first coached in 1990 to 1994. Soccer player for Argentina, Simeone, who led the Estudiantes soccer team to the Epertura championship last year, says that if his team plays defense well in the "La Plata Derby" that they should win the match. Though Simeone has only been in charge of the team during two derbies he has a very good record.=== Argentina polo is considered the best in the world, because they have won every championship since 1949. The origional form of the sport was called "Pato," it was spread by the English ranchers and adopted by "Argentine Guachos.

===Government: Argentina's governent commits to buying Massachusetts Institution of Technology's $100 PC's. MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte continues to make allies in the quest to $100 Linux PC a reality in classrooms throught the world in impoverish countries. This is part of the one laptop per child program.===

===Economy: To boost Argentina's ecomomy Argentina's government approved for Honda to build a manufacturing plant. The plant will be near Buenos Aires. It will produce 30,000 cars a year some of which will be avaliable for export to other Latin American countries.===
 * Argentina's government went through many years of mismanagement, with the power in the hands of military leaders. Argentina continued to suffer huge foriegn debt. The debt is severe enough to cause "widespread rotin." Since Argentina was a democracy power has alternated between Radical Civic Union and Justicialist Party.**

===History: Argentina has a new president. Christina Fernandez de Kircher. She was the "First Lady" of Argentina, but is now the president. Kircher will take her place as president on December 10. She is a senator in Argentina's National legislature. Kircher won 45% of the vote. Her opponet Elisa Carrio won 23%, and her other opponet Roberto Lavanga won 17% of the vote. This election will go down in history. The beautiful blue and white flag of Argentina is a special way for the people of Argentina to remember the past history of their country. On February 12, 1812 the flag was adopted by Argentina. The 2 blue strips on the top and bottom and the one white strip in the middle where chosen out by Manuel Belgrano, One of the leaders against spain in the war for Argentina's freedom. The blue strips represent the parting of the sky and the white in the middle represents the clouds coming through. The "Sun of May" in the middle was added in 1818.===













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