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56 unusual facts about Argentina


2011 FIA GT1 San Luis round

The 2011 FIA GT1 San Luis round was an auto racing event held at the Potrero de los Funes Circuit, San Luis, Argentina on 4–6 November, and was the final round of the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship season.

Agrinar

Agrinar SA is a tractor manufacturer located in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Alberdi, Paraguay

The most important characteristic of the city is its commerce with Argentine city Formosa, which sits across the river.

Alonso González de Nájera

He arrived in Mendoza in May 1601, afterward moving to the south of Chile, where he remained until 1607.

Andrej Bajuk

They settled in Mendoza, where Bajuk grew up, studied and started a family.

He returned to Mendoza, where he taught as a professor at the university.

Benita Martínez Pastoriza

Benita Martínez Pastoriza de Sarmiento (1819 in San Juan, Argentina – 1890 in Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Benjamin Apthorp Gould

In 1864 he fitted up a private observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and undertook in 1868, on behalf of the Argentine republic, to organize a national observatory at Córdoba.

Bristol M.1

One of these, flown by Lt. Godoy, was used to fly from Santiago to Mendoza, Argentina and back on 12 December 1918, the first flight across the Andes mountain chain.

Camino a Idilia

Camino A Idilia is the fourth LP released by the argentinian Punk rock formerly Hardcore punk band Shaila, released on November 18, 2006.

Carlos Washington Lencinas

Carlos Washington Lencinas (November 13, 1888 - November 10, 1929) was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.

Celia Correas de Zapata

Celia Correas de Zapata (born 9 October 1935 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an academic, poet, and author, and a leading scholar of the history of Latin American women writers.

Charles Dillon Perrine

He is buried in the cementerio disidente in the city of Córdoba.

Chiche bombón

The film is set in San Luis, Argentina, and Andrea Galante portrays a failed actress with diminishing prospects, becoming pregnant and living in poverty.

Choya

Choya, Argentina, a village and municipality in Catamarca Province, Argentina

Chrisstanleyite

First discovered by Dr. Werner Paar from a sample received from Hope’s Nose, Torquay, Devon, England, chrisstanleyite has since been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in El Chire, La Rioja, Argentina.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Diego Scaglia

Diego Scaglia (born Córdoba, 29 July 1967) is an Argentine-born Italian former rugby union player and a current coach.

Eduardo Belgrano Rawson

Eduardo Belgrano Rawson is a writer born in 1943 in San Luis, Argentina.

Eduardo Mondino

Eduardo R. Mondino (born 3 May 1958, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine journalist and Justicialist Party politician.

El Litoral

El Litoral is a local newspaper published in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Emiliano Tardif

He died on June 8, 1999 from heart complications on San Antonio de Arredondo, Córdoba Province, Argentina.

Enrique Marcatili

Enrique A. J. Marcatili (born 1 August 1925 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Argentine-American physicist.

Esperando el milagro

Esperando el milagro is the ninth album by Argentine rock band Las Pelotas.

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

The Hotel de Inmigrantes, built in 1906 to accommodate the 100,000 to 200,000 yearly arrivals at the Port of Buenos Aires, was made a National Historic Monument.

In fact, immigration to Argentina was so strong that Argentina eventually became the second country in the world that received the most immigrants, with 6.6 millions, second only to the USA with 27 millions, and ahead of such other immigratory receptors such as Canada, Brazil and Australia.

False flag

Townley declared that the pamphlets were distributed in Mendoza and Córdoba in relation with false flag bombings perpetrated by SIDE agents, which had as their aim to accredit the existence of the fake Grupo Rojo.

FMA SAIA 90

This agreement called to both parties to establish a common office in the city of Córdoba, Argentina within the year for the production, marketing and associated support services of their products.

Fortuna Glacier

When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the British Armed Forces recaptured the island in 'Operation Paraquet', thereby removing the Argentinian military presence and restoring the island to British Sovereignty.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Georges Henri Issa

His technical management extended to KOHAR Symphony Orchestra and Choir 2012 in the “All Time Armenian Favorites” tour in South America performing 9 concerts in 4 major cities Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and São Paulo.

I.Ae. 34 Clen Antú

Between 1946 and 1956 the Fabrica Miitar de Aviones of Córdoba, Argentina was known as the Instituto Aerotecnico (I.Ae.).

Isidro García

He also defended his title successfully against Jose Rafael Sosa in Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.

Juan de Garay

The governor of Asunción sent him on April 1573, with a company of eighty men, on an expedition to the Paraná River, during which he founded the city of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz.

Juan Martínez de Rozas

He was born at Mendoza (then, still a Chilean dependency) in 1759, the son of Juan Martínez de Soto Rozas and María Prudencia Correa Villegas.

In 1812 Carrera succeeded in securing the banishment of his rival, who was forced to retire to Mendoza, where he died on March 3, 1813.

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern op artist and kinetic artist born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina.

Kids' Choice Awards Argentina

Its first edition was held on October 11, 2011 at the Mendoza Mavinas Argentinas Stadium.

Laura I. Catena

She is currently general director of Bodega Catena Zapata and her own Luca Winery in Mendoza, Argentina, as well as a practicing Emergency Medicine physician at University of California San Francisco Medical Center in California and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Leandro Despouy

Leandro Despouy (April 4th, 1947. San Luis, Argentina) is an Argentine human rights lawyer.

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Marcos Lenzoni

Marcos Lenzoni (1894–1924) was an Argentine poet and playwright.

Martín Basso

Martín Basso (born July 26, 1974 in Cordoba) is an Argentine racing driver.

Mendozite

The exact location has been lost, but was described as "San Juan, near Mendoza", and it is the latter city that give the mineral its name.

Mercedes Morán

Mercedes Morán (born September 21, 1955, Concarán, San Luis, Argentina) is a film and television actress.

Pablo Tabachnik

Pablo Ariel Tabachnik (born November 20, 1977 in San Juan, Argentina) is an Argentine table tennis player.

Paul Bénichou

After living in the French unoccupied zone, Bénichou could leave in 1942 with his family to Argentina, where he had been offered a teaching position in the university of Mendoza; afterwards, he taught in Buenos Aires, at the Institut Français (co-founded by Roger Caillois).

Pedro del Castillo

On 2 March 1561 Pedro del Castillo founded the city of Mendoza.

Plaza San Martín

Plaza San Martín is a common name for squares in many towns and cities of Argentina and Perú.

Riccardo Giovanelli

Born in Italy, he spent his childhood years in western Argentina (in Mendoza and Tucuman) but returned with his family to Italy when he was ready to enter university.

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo (Salteras 1519 – Santa Fe 1602) was a miner, military, conqueror and statesman who established the Spanish Crown in the region of Río de la Plata in South America.

Sara Gallardo

She retreated from society and settled with her children in La Cumbre, Córdoba Province, in a house that was provided by the writer Manuel Mujica Láinez.

Sergio Lais-Suárez

Also President of the Argentina-India´s Friendship House and Founder Medical Director of Spasisimo International Ayurvedic Health Resort in Córdoba, Argentina.

Tebicuary River

Located in the southwestern part of that country, it flows eastwards discharging to Paraguay River about 45 km south of Formosa and 30 km north of Pilar.

Vítor Hugo dos Santos

He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2012 South American Youth Championships in Athletics in Mendoza, Argentina.


1978–79 Birmingham City F.C. season

Jim Smith, in his first full season as Birmingham's manager, brought Argentina's World Cup-winning full-back Alberto Tarantini to the club.

2011 BMW Open – Doubles

Simone Bolelli of Italy and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina defeated in the final the German couple Andreas Beck and Christopher Kas 7–6(3), 6–4 to win the title.

Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Alfredo Fiorito

Alfredo Fiorito is a DJ who was born in the town of Rosario in Argentina.

Argentina–Canada relations

In October/November 2005, the II Indigenous Summit of the Americas was held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza, with the assistance of the government of Canada and organizational support from the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Argentine legislative election, 1912

A visit to Rome in 1909 gave the scion of one of Argentina's most powerful families at the time, Roque Sáenz Peña, the opportunity to meet the governing party's nemesis - the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen.

Arturo Angeles

Arturo Angeles (born September 12, 1953) is a retired football (soccer) referee from the United States, best known for supervising one match (Argentina-Greece) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in his native country.

Arturo Rawson

Born in Santiago del Estero, Rawson attended Argentina’s Military College, which he graduated from in 1907 and subsequently taught at for a time.

Banda Oriental

In contrast, the one of Santo Domingo Soriano, founded with Charrúas and Chanáes in Entre Ríos, Argentina, in 1664, was moved on the Isle of Vizcaíno, on the mouth of Río Negro and then in 1718 it was moved again at its present location in the modern Soriano Department.

Carlos Auyero

On 17 April 1997, Auyero participated in the programme Hora Clave on Canal 9 presented by Mariano Grondona, appearing in a panel debate with government minister Eduardo Amadeo as well as journalist Néstor Ibarra and economist Enrique Szewach.

Cayetano Alberto Silva

The march became famous in other countries over time to such an extent that it was played on June 22, 1911, during the coronations of King George V and Elizabeth II (with prior approval sought by the British government from Argentina).

Emilio D'Aquino

He was also selected for the Italian team in triathlon, and guaranteed his qualifying berth for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammate Daniel Fontana, a former competitor from Argentina at the previous games in Athens.

Ernesto Cortázar II

Ernesto traveled to more than 25 countries and performed his original compositions for political figures such as President of Argentina Carlos Menem, Nikita Khrushchev leader of the USSR and entertained at various prestigious venues including The Kremlin (Russia) and The Mexican Presidential House.

Esteban Courtalon

From Santa Fe in Argentina, Courtalon was worked on some 20 films in the Cinema of Argentina since 1965 such as El Acomodador (1975), Eversmile, New Jersey (1989) and Alambrado in 1991.

Fabio Vázquez

Fabio Francisco Vázquez (Viedma, 19 February 1994) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Argentinos Juniors.

First International Conference of American States

To oppose the U.S. arbitration plan the Latin delegations supported a joint proposal drafted by Argentina's Sáenz Peña and co-sponsored by Brazil.

Fundación Impulsar

It was founded in 1999 in Salta in the north west of Argentina, when seven British businesses working in Argentina (including Unilever, British Gas, and Rio Tinto Borax), inspired by the work of the Princes Trust, agreed to fund a similar initiative.

Gabriele Oriali

He was also part of the team that defeated the strong teams of Argentina and Brazil, and defeated Poland in the semi-final.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Grito Mundial

The official music video was filmed in late October, 2009 at La Bombonera in Argentina, when Boca Juniors and Chacarita were playing.

Gustavo Lillo

Gustavo Alejandro Lillo (born August 8, 1973 in Mendoza) is a retired Argentine professional footballer.

Horacio Salgán

In 2005 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards im Argentina, as the most important personality in the Popular Music of his country in the last decade.

Inga and Anush Arshakyan

This was followed by invitations to appear on stage with the same program in New York, Toronto, Argentina and Paris.

Joel Veitch

In January 2007, Veitch reached a settlement with Coca-Cola after they used music and video very similar to 7 Seconds of Love's song 'Ninja' on one of their adverts in Argentina without permission.

Jorge Giannoni

Shortly thereafter the University of Buenos Aires was pressured by the government of Isabel Perón to close the Institute, and he had to leave the country for Peru, and then Cuba, where he resided until his return to Argentina in 1983.

José Sarney

Sarney and the president of Argentina Raúl Alfonsín started the process of the creation of a common market between the two nations in 1985.

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

He also directed films about icons of Argentine history and culture: Martín Fierro (1968), about the main character of Argentina's national poem; El Santo de la Espada (1970), about General José de San Martín; and Güemes: la tierra en armas (1971), about Martín Miguel de Güemes.

María Beatriz Nofal

María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza.

Mario Gerosa

He was called for the 1995 Rugby World Cup, playing two games and scoring a try in 31-25 win over Argentina, at 4 June 1995, in East London.

Michelle Engelsman

Michelle Engelsman (born December 9, 1979 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Australian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.

Murgas

The plural of Murga, a form of musical theater performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season

Nicolás Freire

Nicolás Freire (born 18 February 1994 in Santa Lucía) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Argentinos Juniors.

Pais

Ampelographers believe that along with the Criolla Grande grape of Argentina and Mission grape of California, that the Pais grape is descended by the Spanish "common black grape" brought to Mexico in 1520 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Patricio Contreras

Continuing to live and work in Argentina, he starred in Betty Kaplan's adaptation of Chilean writer Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows (1995), and to his film credits were added those in the local theatre, notably his work in a local, 1996-98 production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (directed by his wife).

Raimundo Ongaro

One such takeover, that of Editorial Atlántida (Argentina's leading magazine publisher) by Editorial Perfil in 1998, led to differences between affected employees and Ongaro, himself, who did not oppose the merger.

Raúl Barragán

Raúl Horacio "YUYO" Barragán (born 1959- 1º Agosto 2013) was a man from Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, Argentina, .

Barragán became a general manager of Aerolíneas Argentinas in 1978 at Concordia, a border city between Argentina and Uruguay.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

René Lavand

In between international tours, he resides in Tandil, Argentina and has adapted a train wagon which he turned into a magic saloon where he teaches illusion.

Ricardo Giusti

Ricardo Omar Giusti (born 11 December 1956 in Arroyo Seco) is a former Argentine footballer.

Ricardo Rodriguez

Ricardo Rodríguez Saá, Governor of San Luis Province in Argentina, 1934–1938

Roller Hockey South American Club Championship

The current holders of the South American Club Championship are Sport Recife, who beat San Lorenzo by a score of 5–4 in Huracán, Argentina.

Rubén Israel

The individuals that will form the coaching staff are assistant managers Mauricio Alfaro and José Luis Rugamas, physical trainers Esteban Coppia (Argentina) and Nicolás Dos Santos (Uruguay) and the goalkeeping coach Carlos Cañadas.

Rubén Juárez

Since that time, he had acted in Argentina and abroad, and recorded songs with artists like Armando Pontier, Charly García, Pedro Aznar, Leopoldo Federico, Raúl Garello, Litto Nebbia, the guitarist Roberto Grela and José Colángelo.

Saladillo

Saladillo Stream, a stream of the Paraná River, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

Sportivo Dock Sud

Club Sportivo Dock Sud (familiarly called Docke by fans) is an Argentine football club based in the Dock Sud district of Avellaneda Partido, Greater Buenos Aires.

Uki Goñi

He is also the author of two previous books in Spanish, El infiltrado, la verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1996), regarding crimes committed by Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, and Perón y los alemanes (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998), on wartime links between Berlin and Buenos Aires.

William Reaside

Reaside coached a number of teams in South America, including Nacional of Uruguay, Newell's Old Boys of Argentina, and Asturias and Guadalajara of Mexico.