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Argentina is a state located in the extreme southeast of the American continent and is traditionally part of the area known as the Southern Cone, which is also made up of neighboring countries of Argentina such as Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

Regarding his way of government, Argentina, is organized, as established by its Constitution sanctioned in the year 1853 as a Republic, representative and federal and in what is inherent to its distribution geographical area consists of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is also its capital and headquarters of the federal government.

Power in Argentina passes through three fundamental pillars, the executive power embodied by a citizen who reaches the title of president by direct suffrage; the legislative power, represented by the Congress of the Nation and the judiciary, headed by the Supreme Court of Justice, made up of five members.

Although in the last decade Argentina was sadly marked by a deep crisis

politics, social and economic that brought with it a disbelief in institutions, the impoverishment of a large part of society and a increase in crime, the country occupies the area we mentioned, Argentina is one of the most important economies, the 23rd in the world according to him world Bank and their society is one of the most developed and brilliant culturally and socially.

There is also another issue that makes Argentina different and unique and that has to do with its extension, since its territory It is the second largest in the Southern Cone, after Brazil of course, its surface is 2,780,400 square km, without taking into account those territories in dispute for years with the English such as the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich and Aurora and the Antarctic area, which if it became part of Argentine territory again, that surface would amount to 3,761,274 km squares. Specifically, Argentine soil limits to the north with Paraguay and Bolivia, to the northeast with Brazil, to the east with Uruguay the Atlantic Ocean and to the west and south with Chile.

According to various studies, Argentina began to be populated in the Palaeolithic stage and from that mentioned onwards, the territory Argentina and its indigenous inhabitants faced countless invasions and conquests, from the Incas to the Spanish who came with Columbus many years later and that of course they were converting and contributing to make Argentina a melting pot of races.

Although the history of a country and in particular of Argentina, which is the one that concerns us now, has countless dates that mark its most important moments and events, especially there are two dates that changed the history of the country, on the one hand, May 25 of 1810, day, year and month in which the first hint of reaction against the oppressive power of the Spaniards took place, known as the Revolution May and finally July 9, 1816, when at last the Argentine people were able to shout to the world and to the Spaniards especially their freedom and independence.

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