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Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Argentina has 35 indigenous people groups (often referred to as Argentine Amerindians or Native Argentines) officially recognized by the national government. [ 2] As of the 2022 census [ INDEC], some 1,306,730 Argentines (2.83% of the country's population) self-identify as indigenous or first-generation ...
Signature. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 [ 1] – after 19 May 1559 [ 2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a ...
The Río de la Plata behaves as an estuary in which freshwater and seawater mix. The freshwater comes principally from the Paraná River (one of the world's longest rivers and La Plata's main tributary) as well as from the Uruguay River and other smaller streams. Currents in the Río de la Plata are dominated by tides reaching to its sources ...
Indians in Argentina. There is a small community of Indians in Argentina who are mainly immigrants from India and the neighboring countries in South America and the Caribbean with Indo-Caribbean influence (i.e. Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname) and some of whom were born in Argentina and are of Indian heritage.
Argentine cuisine is described as a blending of cultures, from the Indigenous peoples of Argentina who focused on ingredients such as humita, potatoes, cassava, peppers, tomatoes, beans, and yerba mate, to Mediterranean influences brought by the Spanish during the colonial period. This led to cultural blending of criollos ( gauchos and early ...
0585340. Website. www .townoflaplata .org. La Plata ( / ləˈpleɪtə / lə-PLAY-tə) [ 3] is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census. [ 4] It is the county seat of Charles County.
A gaucho ( Spanish: [ˈɡawtʃo]) or gaúcho ( Portuguese: [ɡaˈuʃu]) is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly. The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol of Argentina, Paraguay, [ 1] Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, the southern part of Bolivia, [ 2] and the south of Chilean Patagonia. [ 3] Gauchos became greatly admired and ...
German immigration to Argentina occurred during five main time periods: pre–1870, 1870–1914, 1918–1933, 1933–1940 and post–1945. Argentina and Germany have long had close ties to each other. A flourishing trade developed between them as early as the German Unification, and Germany had a privileged position in the Argentine economy.