After seeing the first screening of fun facts about the country of Argentina, we continue with a trip to Argentina to learn a bit more from other less traditional perspective, which listed below.
– The arrival of the right whales at Peninsula Valdes, on the beach in the Chubut province of Argentina, is a spectacle of nature that you can follow online.
– Santa Rosa Great pasture is the smallest town in the Puna of Salta.
– The largest dinosaur found in the province of Neuquen, with a length of 40 meters and a height of 18 meters.
– In Argentina is the deepest depression of the Americas geographical: the lagoon Coal to 105 meters below sea level.
– Argentina's most extensive Laguna Mar Chiquita is in the province of Cordoba.
– The kapok flower is the national flower of Argentina.
– El Tren de las Nubes, Puna is communicated with the city of Salta, crosses 29 bridges, 21 tunnels, 13 viaducts, 2 "locks" and 2 zigzags.
– The name "Argentina" comes from the Latin argentum (silver) and is associated with the legend of the Sierra de la Plata, common among the early European navigators in the region and was imagining a saw with silver treasures.
– Argentina is the second largest state in South America after Brazil, fourth in the Americas and eighth in the world.
– It was established in 1810 when the last Spanish viceroy who ruled from Buenos Aires.
– Celebrities are the Argentines, Eva Perón, Borges, Maradona, Valeria Mazza, Andres Calamaro or Che Guevara.
– Carlos Gardel was born in France, although he arrived in Buenos Aires with only two years.
– The writer Julio Cortazar, a national of Argentina, was born in the Embassy of Argentina in Belgium.
– In the big cities of Argentina, supermarkets are open seven days a week.
Argentina is the second most visited country in South America (after Brazil) and the fifth most visited of the Americas.
– The driver Juan Manuel Fangio was the first to win five World Cups in F1 in 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956. His record was matched only in 2002 by German Michael Schumacher.
– The Bible Society Argentina has made a version of the Bible in a current language for their messages understood perfectly.
In southern Argentina pudú inhabits the world's smallest deer.
– The flag was created by Argentina's military and political as Manuel Belgrano on February 27, 1812.
– The first time that the flag was raised was in Buenos Aires in the church tower of St. Nicholas of Bari, where today stands the Obelisk.
– The blue color of the flag was chosen and decided it was easier to find fabrics in this color at the time.
– The sun appears at the center of the white stripe of the flag of Argentina is a "replica" that was saved in the first currency, adopted in 1813.
Not lack reasons for wanting to travel and always to return to Argentina. And yet, we always have left undiscovered secrets and curiosities …