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The Argentine Republic located in South America has an extension of 3.8 millon km, of wich 2.8 belong to the continent, with approximalety in 54% of plains, 23% of plateaus and another 23% of mountain ranges and mountains jungle, and the rest corresponds to the Antartic sector, limits with Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Chile
The Argentine relief offers great resistanve in its immense eastern plains fronts to the impressive mountain rande from the Andes to the west, where is Aconcagua of 6959 mtrs, the high summit but of the western hemisfhere, Fro Jujuy to land of the Fire, the same mountain range exhibits a profuse variety of landscapes, from the plateaus of the Argentine north - desert, with valleys, gorges, forest and Hills multicolors, to the region of the lakes, Forest, and Glaciers of Patagonia.
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They integrate five cultural provinces that are natural jewels and that is complemented of cautivant form obtaining a high tourist potential.
The North Argentine dazzles, and it does so that it is a harmonic combination of nature, alive history and cultures, strongly rooted to the earth. Crossing he five provinces, it is to become deserving of a postal collection in wich they cannot lack hills of colors, the ruins, the green valleys, the narional Parks, the Thermal waters, landscapes that frame tens of towns and communities with rich cultural patrimony that is pronounced in numerous festividid, traditions, crafts and local gastronomy.
Any station of the year is god to visit the region, since it is not a unit of climatic terms, and the different zones offer changing aspects in the four stations of the year. |
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CALCHAQUIES VALLEY
Refuge of the traditions and the pre-Colombine art. center of civilization of the Diaguita Indegenous race. The Valley are born in Salta, these tear as soon as the province of Tucuman finishing somewhere of Catamarca. They are conformed by valleys of the river Calchaquie and the river Santa Maria on Catamarca.
PUNA
It is a great high plateau similar to Tibet and to the desert of Atacama with a height 4000 average of mtrs, extends from the center the west of Catamarca to the north of Jujuy, including understanding half the west of the provinces of Jujuy, and Salta.Puna appears as geologic organization makes 5000 millin years makes, 150 millon years, began the first movements of elevation in Volcanos, most upper is the Pissis Volcano with 6882 msnm, Followed by Llullaillaco with 6739 msnm, Ojos del Salado with 6864 msnm, Bonete Chico 6759 msnm, Tres Cruces 6749 msnm, Walter Pench 6658 msnm, and other ones to 6000 msnm.
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YUNGAS JUNGLE
The forest crosses of the south to north of Tucuman, Salta region and Finish in Jujuy, Being located in the skirts of the eastern mountain ranges, that are a natural barrier that stops and condence the humid winds of the Atlantic, the same ones is given off gradually as they are risen mountains until the 1800 msnm, disappearing completely.
GORGES
The gorges are the routes of communication of these zones of generally fluvial origin are extended walleys and narrow but important and the colorfull ones are in the region of Jujuy, Salta and Tucuman.
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