Argentina is located at the south of South America.
It's a large territory with climate's diversity; different kind of soils and geographical accidents:
steppes, plateaus, jungles, mountains range, ice fields, snow, valleys, lakes and high tablelands.
It bordering the Atlantic Ocean(4,989 sq km), Uruguay(579 sq km), Brazil(1,224 sq km), Paraguay(1880 sq km), Bolivia(832 sq km) and Chile (5,150 sq km).
Extension: 3.761.274 sq kms
Population: 37.000.000
Capital: Buenos Aires
Official language: Spanish
Monetary unit: peso
We can divide in 5 zone according at the characteristic of each one:
1 - North West
2 - North East
3 - Central East
4 - Central West
5 - South
NORTH WEST AREA
This area include the following provinces: Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.
It's a desert area with high mountains, volcanoes, blue sky and strong sun.
In this area its common to find group of "llamas". They are a beautiful animals, the same family than "guanacos" and "alpacas".
All of them have a great wool and the original inhabitants of this regions used to make "ponchos", "mantas" and sweters and all kind of textils products with nice colors and design. This is an old activity and this people developed very good. Still now they continue with this tradition.
Ones of the most beautiful places are Calchaquíes Valleys; Salta city;"La Quebrada de Humauaca".
It's amazing to travel on the "railway to the cloud" ("El tren a las nubes")
It's one of the highest trains in the world.
This region has a typical desert areas climate: dry, hot during day and cold during the night.
CENTRAL AREA
is divided in "PAMPAS Valleys" (the East area) and CUYO the West Area).
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THE CENTRAL WEST AREA
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"CUYO":includes "Mendoza"; "San Juan";"La Rioja";"San Luis" and part of "Córdoba" province.
"Aconcagua" , the American highest mountain,(6959 meters over sea level).
"Potrerillo Dump" is created over Mendoza River.
This is a semi-desert area then, the water is a valuable product.
The dumps provide water and electric energy.
At the other hand the dumps create a good place for entertainments and relax times.
"Villavicencio"
is in the northwest of Mendoza City. It's
an amazing place in the middle of the mountains at 1700 meters over sea level. The Hotel was build one hundred years ago and was famous not only because the place is amazing, also because you can enjoy the thermal waters. The spring have many minerals so useful in some kind of health problems.
"Ischigualasto Provincial Park" is a protected area crossing the border between the two provinces and lying between 29°55’S-68°06’W;
The rocks have strange shapes and some of them have strong colors.
Look like a "moon valley", for this reason the people call this way.
"Talampaya National Park"
lies entirely in the Province of La Rioja and its coordinates are 30°02’S-67°48’W."
The fauna is the typical's arid region's fauna of western Argentina, with no less than 20 species of mammals, 36 differents kind of birds, and 20 reptiles and amphibians.
The weather is dry, with cold winters and hot summers.
"Ischigualasto-Talampaya" is the only place on earth revealing the complete sequence of fossiliferous continental sediments representing the entire Triassic Period of geological time. The fossil-bearing strata here contain some of the oldest known dinosaur remains and document the transition from Early Triassic mammalian ancestors to the age of dinosaur dominance in the Late Triassic (Sill, 2000, Zago, 1995"
"THE PAMPAS"
is an extensive plain of green grass that covers almost the 25% of 700,000 sq KM of the Argentine territory.
Its including mainly "Buenos Aires" and "La Pampa". It also includes the southern part of "Córdoba", southern part of "Santa Fe", western part of "San Luis" and southern part of "Entre Ríos". Extensive fields of grass, sorghum, wheat,soybeans, corn and sunflower grow under an endless blue sky.
It's also here, where the most flavorful meat of the world is produced, and also where the Argentine folk music has its main artists. There are hundreds colonial's ranch and residences with British or French or Spaniard style that covers the Pampa.
The fields are only interrupted by amazing hills and rivers in "Córdoba".
Buenos Aires, the Capitol city, is located in "Río de la Plata"'s coast.
It's the most cosmopolitan city in Latin America. It's tango's land and enormous quantities attractions. It's an elegant capitol with a European-flavored sophisticated, and a passionate culture.
"Teatro Colon" is an example of this.
"The Pink House" is the Government House
The "National Congress"
"Mar del Plata" is the most important beach city in the Atlantic Argentinean Coast.
Every year during the summer season,it receives thousands of people from all the country and still foreign people who come to enjoy with the beach and all kind of entertainment. Theatre, casinos, discos, restaurants,etc.
The weather is very pleasant, with mild winters and warm summers.
Rosario, Córdoba are others important cities in this region.
NORTH EAST AREA:
Incluides the following provinces:
"Misiones", "Corrientes", "Entre Ríos", "Formosa", "Chaco" and "Santa Fe" .
The weather is humid and hot, it's warm still in winter.
It's a region with large rivers, red earth, virgin forest, full of huge trees and amazing flora and fauna.
“IGUAZÚ” in Guaraní's language – overflowing into one of the world’s wonders: Iguazú Falls (four times bigger than Niagara’s).
"Iguazú Fall" are located in the border among Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
"Without a doubt the Missionary Jungle in the Iguazú National Park, together with the Iberá ponds, is a paradise for
bird watchers.
The biodiversity evident in this eco-region is really incredible. The popularly held notion of jungle fowl is that of multicolored, metallic or iridescent plumage, which is true in some cases. But despite this notable characteristic, many maintain static poses for long periods and so pass unnoticed by the unskilled observer. Their sounds and fluctuating vocalizations are very characteristic of the jungle. So too are the greater rhea (rhea americana), the "tataupá" (crypturellus tataupa), the chimango caracara (milvago chimango), and the common falcon (falco). These latter are birds of prey."
Another beautiful place is "El Palmar National Park"
There are preserve the last examples of Yatay palm trees, its are 800 years old.
"San Ignacio", Jesuit's ruin is a testimony that remain us that 500 years ago the Jesuit were in that place evangelizing the aborigine people
All these places are part of Humanity's Heritage declared by UNESCO.
"Patagonia"
The South Zone of Argentina is a place of the most amazing glaciers in the world.
snowed cities
Skiing resorts.
The hill and the mountains have a huge forests and lakes among the mountains.
The Patagonian provinces are Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego.
Millennial silent forests with native vegetable species are extended along the shores of glistening waters.
On top of the mountains, nature overflows with granite peaks and ice fields spreading their glacier tongues into unsurpassable beauty lakes.
Imposing mammals and sea bird, spend certain seasons on the rough coasts Patagonia where they complete part of their life cycle.
Seals colonies play on the islets and sandbanks.
The most important southern elephant seal's continental colony is located in Peninsula Valdes.
This life cycle repeated since time immemorial, unfolds itself in front of the astonished visitors’ eyes.
In the south, "Tierra del Fuego" and the most southern city, "Ushuaia", are the gateway towards the vast and mysterious Antartida.
The weather is humid or dried depending the place. And It's cold or warm depending also the place.
Argentina is my country. I have born here and I have enjoyed living here.
I enjoy traveling, knowing and discovering another countries, their people and their culture but I feel Argentina is my place.
I would like to tell you why I feel that my country is great.
Yes, I know, my country is so complex. Now, we are living a difficult time, a lot of conflicts, problems and different kind of crisis. Every day you can read about new difficulties. I could put here a long list of problems...
At the other hand, I can tell you that: Argentina is a large country with an amazing natural resource, nice people, so creative, friendly and smart. We really need to decide to organized our country, our democratic way of lives.
We have a great challenge in ours hands, we need to work hard, responsible and seriously to develop our country.
I'm sure this will not be easily. Our society have serious problems right now but...
We need to created better possibilities to build a great country. We need to believe that a better future is able.
Following this deal it's so important to consider like a first priority "the education" and we need to develop more and more our technology.
Another priority is to fight against the corruption. We need to create balance between the rich and the poor people. Right now, the contrast is tremendous and this generate a lot of people are upset, sad and the violence is increassing everyday.
We need to stop the violence. It's in the street, in the office, at home... Many time it's very difficult to live.
We need to award that is necessary to change many things. We can not stay all the time reviewing the pass, searching the guelties and searching an excuses to continue the same way.
I want to believe that little by little more people will think that is necessary to change, we need to project our future, a different future.
We need to review our values. Think seriously that the only way to grow it's working hard, responsible, it's taking a risk and putting all our energies in our country.
We need to stop to think that we can transform our country easily, and funny. This is good for a TV show but the reality ask for other kind of attitude. The important is how we can be, not how we can appear... We need more and best educated people, we need to improve our educational system... This is in the basement.
We have a lot of things to do in our present in relation with our future.
The main idea: we need to believe that we can build another future.
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Today Ozlem and I have had a nice class with Donna about "Giving a Presentation".
We could practice how to introduce ourselves, the topic and then, how to do the development and the conclusion of the presentation.
Because we chose to talk about where we live, we could knew more about Texas, Istambul and Mendoza.
I think it's amazing to learn about another countries talking with the people that live there...
Ozlem is from Turkey.
She talked to us that if we'll go to visit her place, Istambul ,she would recomend us to visit:
"Grand Baazar"
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar (Kapali Çarsi, or Covered Market) is Turkey's largest covered market offering excellent shopping.
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is a small town in itself, with miles of passageways, mosques, banks, police stations, restaurants
We would find beautiful Turkish carpets, glazed tiles and pottery, copper and brassware, apparel made of leather, cotton and wool, meerschaum pipes, alabaster bookends and ashtrays, and all sorts of other things
"Hagia Sophi"
The Church of the Divine Wisdom (Hagia Sophia in Greek) is one of the most impressive and important buildings ever constructed.
Its wide, flat dome was a daring engineering feat in the 6th century, and architects still marvel at the building's many innovations.
Called Hagia Sophia in Greek, Sancta Sophia in Latin, Ayasofya in Turkish, it was built on the site of Byzantium's acropolis by Emperor Justinian (527-65 AD) in 537 AD.
"Hagia Sophia"is an experience in space and time, and the architects' magic still works after more than fourteen centuries.
Drafty, sombre, aged, dank, lofty, glorious. In summer cool as marble, in winter cold as snow.
On a hot Istanbul afternoon, Hagia Sophia is an oasis of cool silence broken only by the spiel and patter of the multilingual guides.
Their flocks of curious Europeans, Americans, Japanese and Greeks feel what the guides by this time ignore: awe. It is the awe not of religion, for Hagia Sophia is neither church nor mosque any longer. The awe is of age, of history, and of miraculous architecture. "by Tom Brosnahan- "Travel and pleisure"(US)"Ayasofya:the perfect space"
In the dim light deep within is a glimmer of gold.
Your eyes adjust to the darkness and you recognize the apse blazing with a glorious gold mosaic of Madonna and Child.
A few more steps, and the vision is clear and beautiful.
The 30 million gold tesserae (tiny mosaic tiles) which cover the church's interior--especially the dome--are now being restored to the brilliance they boasted 1500 years ago. This means the interior is filled with scaffolding, and will be so for years to come. This may spoil photos, but not the church's grandeur. You'll still enjoy your visit here.
In the mezzanne level we would see the splendid Byzantine mosaics
Ayasofya was the greatest church in Christendom until St Peter's Basilica was built in Rome a thousand years later.
In 1453, almost a thousand years later, Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, fresh from the final battle for Constantinople, stood in this doorway and ordered the great church to be cleansed, repaired, beautified, and converted to a mosque.
The Hagia Sophia Museum was included in the list of UNESCO List of World Heritage.
"Minaturk"
It's a new Maquette Park have a miniature models of old Ottoman architectural works in Turkey.
There are 105 models structures architectural .
All the maquettes are 1/25 of the original sizes.
The park is located over 52ha along the coast of the Golden Horn.
We can eat in a great restaurant "Çiçek Pasaji" in Istiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue) is the heart of Beyoglu, the more modern district of Istanbul built during the 19th century.
When 19th-century travelers spoke of Constantinople (Istanbul) as the Paris of the East, they were thinking of the Grande Rue de Péra (Istiklal Caddesi) and its half-European, half-Asian culture.
The Çiçek Pasaji is the L-shaped courtyard of a building named Cité de Péra, one of the first European-style buildings constructed during the Ottoman Empire's late-19th-century effort to modernize.
In its 19th- and early 20th-century heyday the Cité de Péra building housed posh shops on its ground floor in the Pasaj, and offices on the floors above.
In 1968, the Pasaj became a bunch of workmen's meyhanes (tavernas) serving cheap but good food and strong drinks.
The shops were now all simple restaurants. Beer barrels were rolled out into the Pasaj, square slabs of marble placed atop them, low three-legged stools set around, and Istanbul's taxi drivers, craftsmen and minor merchants came to eat, talk, shout, sing, and sometimes drink a bit too much.
It was a jolly place, with itinerant musicians, vendors, pimps and catamites circulating freely and getting lots of business.
Then, in the late 1980s, about a century after it was built, part of the Cité de Péra collapsed. The building was closed.
But Turkey's tourism boom had arrived, so the building was restored, renovated and re-opened as a more upscale eating-and-drinking locale for a somewhat richer class of patrons. The patchwork of tarps sheltering it from the elements was replaced with a modern canopy.
A dinner at one of the restaurants in the Çiçek Pasaji is now noticeably more sedate and refined than four decades ago.
later...
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the food of "Los Andes Mountain Range" and only at 400 kilometers of Santiago (Chile).
You can see Mendoza River. It makes possible the life in this semidesert area.
It suplies to us water for drinking and irrigating our crops.
Vineyard is one of the most important industries.
With its low plains to the east and its high, snow-covered mountain peaks to the west, the area dispalys a landscape full of contrast. Aridity, however, seems to be the distinctive feature of the soil, only interrupted by some green oasis nourished by the waters from the mountain rivers.
Chacras de Coria Chapel is located in a villages at 20 kilometers from Mendoza city
We enjoy our "San Martín" park, it's really beautiful. Each plant, each flower and tree is product of our work. Nothing born here spontaneously. We need to plant and then we need to take care and irrigate day by day, if we want to enjoy with theirs.
In the middle of San Martín Park we find an artificial lake. The people use to enjoy walking around it. The lake's function is to receive and contein the water that will permit to irrigate all the park.
In the west side of the lake we can see "Club Mendoza de Regatas". It's a so complete sport club. You can do all kind of sports and Gym.
I go to swimming, play tennis and meet with my friends and pass a very nice time.
Mendoza is a city, Capital of Mendoza's Province. It's one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the western central part of the country in the border with Chile.
Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise San Juan, San Luis, La Pampa, Río Negro and Neuquén.
It's an special City, all the streets have trees and they are irrigate by "acequias", a bit channels that there are between the street and the sidewalk.
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