LATIN AMERICA ARGENTINA
   
GEOGRAPHY - ARGENTINA

Argentina, eighth larger country of the world, is located in South America, in the East of the Andes, the border of Chile in the West at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean with the East and division its borders with Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil in North and North East.

It has four geographical areas: the Andes, North and Mésopotamie, the Pampa and Patagonie.
The climate and the Argentinian geography vary considerably according to the area and one passes from the extreme heat of El Chaco, at the antarctic temperatures of the sea of Patagonie, while passing by the moderate climate of the Pampa.
The climax is the mountain of Aconcagua which reaches almost 7000 meters of altitude and the Falls of Iguazu with a flow of 5000 m3 water a second on 70 meters which precipitate in the river of Parana.
In the Western South, one finds an area called small Switzerland "equipped with a chain of glaciers surrounded by the mountains.

 

 
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