Argentina
Dulce de Leche
A confection prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk to create a substance like caramel.
El Tango
A partner dance that originated in the 1980's along the River Plate, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay, and soon spread to the rest of the world. Early tango was known as tango criollo. Today there are many forms of tango. The original is considered to be closest to the form originally danced in Argentina and Uruguay.
La Cueva de Manos
A series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 101 miles south of the town of Perito Moreno. It is famous for the paintings of hands. The art in the cave dates from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago.
Italian Influence
Argentina has long had a pattern of immigration from Italy and the Italian influence is strong on the country's culture and language.
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insigniain popular culture.
José de San Martin
Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish empire.
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer and essayist, poet, and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature". His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions), and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940's, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. Literacy critics have described Borges as Latin America's monumental writer.
Lionel Messi
Argentine soccer star who led the Argentine team to the finals of the 2014 World Cup.
El Choripan
Argentine style "hot dog" made with chorizo and chimichurri sauce.
Las Empanadas
Baked meat pies made with ground beef and spices.
Paris, France
Buenos Aires is often called the "Paris of South America" due to its architecture and wide boulevards.
Evita: Musical and Movie
Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyric by Tim Rice. It concentrates on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón. The story follows Evita's early life, rise to power, charity work, and eventual death
Alfajores con Dulce de Leche
Flaky, caramel-filled Argentine sandwich cookies.
Garrapiñadas
Garrapiñadas are basically caramelized peanuts sild in tube-like plastic bags on downtown street corners and large public transport areas such as train stations. The proprietor of the cart will stand in front of a hot plate which holds a copper pot in which sugar, water, vanilla extract, and peanuts are tossed energetically.
El Gaucho
Gaucho is an equivalent of the North America "cowboy", the Chilean "huaso", the Spanish "vaquero", the Peruvian "challan", the Cuban "guajiro", the Puerto Rican "jibaro", the Venezuelan or Columbian "llanero", the Ecuadorian "chagra", the Hawaiian "paniolo", and the Mexican "charro", which are often terms that often connote the 19th century more than the present day; then gauchos made up the majority of the rural population, herding cattle in the vast estancias , and practicing hunting as their main economic activities.
La Parrillada Argentina
Grilled beef, pork, and sausages popular and show the influence of cattle-growing in Argentina.
Estancias
Large horse and cattle ranches in the Pampas where much of Argentina's beef is produced.
Datos Importante
Largest Spanish-speaking country in the world in size, Eight largest country in the world
Gabriela Sabatini
One of the leading players in the women's circuit in tennis. She won the women's singles title at the US Open, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon, two Year-End Championships and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Datos Importantes
One of the most economically advanced countries in the Western
Pope Francis
Papa Francisco is the first non-European pope in history and the first from Latin America.
Patagonia
Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the Southern section of the Andes Mountains as well as the desserts, steppes, and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. Patagonia has two coasts, a western one toward the Pacific Ocean and an eastern one towards the Atlantic Ocean.
Datos Importante
Population approximately 40 billion 33 provinces
Las Pampas
Prairie of northern Argentina where large cattle ranches are located and where the 'gaucho' originated.
El Mate
Prepared by steeping dried leaves of yerba mate in hot water and us served with a metal straw frim a shared hollow calabash gourd.
Matambre
Rolled meat stuffed with vegetables and boiled eggs.
El Puchero
Stew made with beef, sausage, and vegetables.
Buenos Aires
The capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata.
La Boca, Buenos Aires
The colorful and artsy section of Buenos Aires where the tango originated.
La Presidenta
The current President of Argentina and widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is the second woman to serve as President of Argentina (after Isabel Martínez de Perón, 1974-1976), the first directly elected female president and the first woman reelected.
Mt. Aconcagua
The highest mountain outside of Asia, at 22,837 ft. and by extension the highest point in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres.
Iguazu Falls
The name "Iguazu" comes from the Guarani or Tupi words "y" meaning "water", and "uasu" meaning "big". Legend has it that a deity planned to marry a beautiful woman named Naipi who fled with her mortal lover Tarobá in a canoe. In a rage the deity sliver the river creating the waterfalls and condemning the lovers to an eternal fall. The first European to record the existence of the falls was the Spanish Conquistador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541.
Medialunas
The name medialuna has a celestial sort of romance on its own-literally it means 'half-moon', bringing to mind the 'moony', sweet days of a new love. Stars have aligned, and everything you eat-when you remember to- is just a little more delicious than usual.
La Torta Frita
The name tortas fritas translates to "fried cakes" or "fried pies". Though they resemble Native American fry bread, tortas fritas are more like fried biscuits. Unlike fry bread, this dough is prepared with more fat (usually lard), like biscuit dough.
El Peso Argentino
The official currency of Argentina.
La Casa Rosada
The presidential palace of Argentina is called 'La Casa Rosada' or the Pink House.
Eva (Evita) Perón
The second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895-1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita. Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture most famously as the subject of the musical Evita (1976). Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the first elected female President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness".
Glaciers
The southern region of Patagonia has many glaciers (glaciares) that date back thousands of years.
Ushuaia
The southernmost city in the world is at the tip of Patagonia
Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas)
There was a ten week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It began on Friday, 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands (and, the following day, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands) in an attempt to establish the sovereignty it had claimed over them. On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands. The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the argentine surrender on 14 June 1982.
Penguins
This bird is a common sight in southern Patagonia
Pochoclos
What Argentinians call popcorn.
