Argentine Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Tren a las Nubes with the correct year: Construction of the railway officially started in ______, with the intention of connecting the North of Argentina with Chile across

  2. Complete the sentence about Tren a las Nubes with the correct year: The La Polvorilla viaduct, the highest of the line, was finished on 7 November ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Tren a las Nubes with the correct year: The complete railway was inaugurated on 20 February ______, following numerous delays and complications and a two-year period where

  4. Complete the sentence about Cueva de las Manos with the correct year: Father Alberto Maria de Agostini, an Italian missionary and explorer, first wrote about the site in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Geography of Argentina with the correct year: With a population of 46.6 million, Argentina ranks as the world's 31st most populous country as of ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Southern right whale with the correct year: International protection was established in ______, though illegal whaling by the Soviet Union continued into the 1970s.
  7. Complete the sentence about Southern right whale with the correct year: The southern right whale was initially described as Balaena australis by Desmoulins in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Southern right whale with the correct year: Eventually, it was recognised that bowheads and right whales were different, and John Edward Gray proposed the genus Eubalaena f

  9. Complete the sentence about Southern right whale with the correct year: In ______, Rosenbaum et al. disagreed, based on data from their genetic study of DNA samples from each of the whale populations.
  10. Complete the sentence about Magellanic penguin with the correct year: The Magellanic penguin was named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who spotted the birds in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about ÑandĂș with the correct year: The name "rhea" was used in ______ by Paul Möhring and adopted as the English common name.
  12. Complete the sentence about ÑandĂș with the correct year: By early ______, 91 rheas were counted in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; the population decline was attributed to both hunting as well as harsh

  13. Complete the sentence about Rufous hornero with the correct year: The first notes taken on the species were made by Philibert Commerson in ______, from a specimen obtained at Barragán cove during Loui

  14. Complete the sentence about Rufous hornero with the correct year: Commerson named the bird Turdus fulvus and his notes were later published by Georges Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle in ______.
  15. Which place completes this sentence about Mendoza, Argentina? Ruta Nacional 7, the major road running between ______ and Santiago, runs through Mendoza.
  16. Which place completes this sentence about La Plata? La Plata was planned and developed to serve as the provincial capital after the city of ______ was federalized in 1880.
  17. Which place completes this sentence about La Plata? The construction was funded by the first inhabitants of La Plata, but as maintenance was very expensive it was later donated to the Province of ____

  18. Which place completes this sentence about Mar del Plata? Mar del Plata is the second largest city in ______ Province.
  19. Which place completes this sentence about Mar del Plata? Upper-class people from ______ traveled by train to become the first tourists of the developing seaside village.
  20. Which place completes this sentence about Jujuy? The town became the capital of Jujuy Province when the latter separated from ______ Province in 1834.
  21. Which place completes this sentence about San Salvador de Jujuy? In late 1535 ______ was the site of a confrontation between a party of Diego de Almagro's expedition to Chile and local indigenous men.
  22. Which place completes this sentence about San Salvador de Jujuy? After previous attempts in 1565 and 1592, the current city was founded as San Salvador de Velazco en el Valle de ______ on April 19, 15

  23. Which place completes this sentence about San Salvador de Jujuy? The 1863 ______ earthquake leveled the town, and it recovered slowly in the following decades.
  24. Which place completes this sentence about Tierra del Fuego? Anglican missionaries, who had established missions on Keppel Island in 1855, established new missions in at ______.
  25. Which place completes this sentence about Salado River? The only important tributary to the river is the Horcones River, which is born in ______ as Cajón River, and joins the Salado in the Santiago de

  26. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Nahuel Huapi? Hitler allegedly went to Argentina, first staying at Hacienda San RamĂłn, a large ranch east of ______.
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Tren a las Nubes? Once the train has left ______, it first enters the Valle de Lerma, and then the Quebrada del Toro, before reaching the puna.
  28. Complete the sentence about Santa Fe, Argentina with the correct year: The Mitre Railway station is no longer used since ______, when defunct company Trenes de Buenos Aires cancelled its services to S

  29. Complete the sentence about Patagonia with the correct year: The populations of Argentine cities and agglomerations are from the ______ Census as referenced above.
  30. Complete the sentence about Lake Nahuel Huapi with the correct year: In a ______ episode of Expedition Unknown, Abel Basti secured a rare excursion into the Inalco House, revealing little except for s

  31. Complete the sentence about Cerro Torre with the correct year: The controversies regarding Maestri's claims are the focus of the ______ book on Cerro Torre, The Tower, by Kelly Cordes.
  32. Complete the sentence about Pampas fox with the correct year: In ______, a female canid with unusual phenotypic characteristics was found in Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  33. Complete the sentence about San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca with the correct year: Catamarca was a host of the ______ FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship at the Polideportivo Fray Mamerto Esq

  34. Complete the sentence about Formosa, Argentina with the correct year: The Formosa campus of the National University of the Northeast was established as the National University of Formosa in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about ParanĂĄ, Entre RĂ­os with the correct year: In ______, inhabitants of the city of Santa Fe settled at the other shore of the ParanĂĄ river.
  36. Complete the sentence about Paraná, Entre Ríos with the correct year: The city is connected to the city of Santa Fe on the other side of the Entre Ríos by the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel inaugurate

  37. Complete the sentence about San Rafael, Mendoza with the correct year: San Rafael remained relatively isolated from the rest of the country, long after independence in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about San Rafael, Mendoza with the correct year: In ______, civil engineer Julio Balloffet was commissioned to oversee the development of San Rafael.
  39. Complete the sentence about San Rafael, Mendoza with the correct year: The first, the Nihuiles Hydroelectric Dam, was inaugurated in ______ on the Atuel River.
  40. Complete the sentence about San Rafael, Mendoza with the correct year: A similarly important work, Los Reyunos Dam, was built on the Diamante River, south of San Rafael, and inaugurated in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Villa Carlos Paz with the correct year: The city was founded by the rancher Carlos Nicandro Paz in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Villa Carlos Paz with the correct year: The Hanging Bridges Trail was built in ______ to link the town to the Valley Traslasierra.
  43. Complete the sentence about Villa Carlos Paz with the correct year: The town has been used many times as the base of the Rally Argentina, with the streets of the town being a super special stage in __

  44. Complete the sentence about LujĂĄn, Buenos Aires with the correct year: Since ______, Benedictine monks of the Cono-Sur Congregation have resided at AbadĂ­a de San Benito on the outskirts of LujĂĄn.
  45. Complete the sentence about San Nicolás de los Arroyos with the correct year: San Nicolás de los Arroyos was founded on April 14, ______ by Rafael de Aguiar, who gave it its name to honor Saint Nichol

  46. Complete the sentence about San Nicolás de los Arroyos with the correct year: Among the many libraries in the city, the oldest and largest is the Rafael de Aguiar Popular Library, founded in ______ by

  47. Complete the sentence about Tandil with the correct year: The "Moving Stone" toppled on February 29, ______, and split into two pieces at the bottom of the hill.
  48. Complete the sentence about Tandil with the correct year: In the early morning of January 1st, ______, a massacre against European immigrants took place in the city, instigated by a man known as Gerón

  49. Complete the sentence about Comodoro Rivadavia with the correct year: Founded by decree on February 23, ______, as a port for the inland settlement of Sarmiento, the first settler was Francisco Pietro

  50. Complete the sentence about RĂ­o Gallegos with the correct year: In ______ Spanish explorer GarcĂ­a Jofre de LoaĂ­sa became the first European to reach the Gallegos River, and named it RĂ­o San Idelfonso.
  51. Complete the sentence about RĂ­o Gallegos with the correct year: SimĂłn de Alcazaba y Sotomayor's ______ expedition was the first to name the river "RĂ­o Gallegos".
  52. Complete the sentence about RĂ­o Gallegos with the correct year: The Territory of Santa Cruz was declared a Province in ______, with Mario CĂĄstulo Paradelo as its first Governor.
  53. Complete the sentence about RĂ­o Gallegos with the correct year: In the ______ Falklands War, the city airport was base of Argentine Air Force Mirage III interceptors and A-4 Skyhawks strike aircraft.
  54. Complete the sentence about Trelew with the correct year: Trelew was established on 20 October ______ as the starting point for the Central Chubut Railway line that would link the lower Chubut River V

  55. Complete the sentence about Trelew with the correct year: The line was opened in ______ and later extended from Trelew to Gaiman, Dolavon and finally to Las Plumas.
  56. Complete the sentence about Rawson, Chubut with the correct year: Rawson was the first town founded by the Welsh immigrants who sailed on the clipper Mimosa in ______ to establish a national colony.
  57. Complete the sentence about Rawson, Chubut with the correct year: Henry Libanus Jones had called it "Fuerte Paz" in his ______ Explanatory notes on two maps of Patagonia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Rawson, Chubut with the correct year: Trelew was temporarily made capital of Chubut in ______ as Rawson recovered from the floods.
  59. Complete the sentence about Esquel with the correct year: The founding of the town dates back to the arrival of Welsh immigrants in Chubut in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Esquel with the correct year: The first fifty oil-fired steam locomotives were made by Henschel & Son of Germany in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Esquel with the correct year: In ______ a mining referendum was held in Esquel with 81% of voters, with a participation rate of 75%, rejected the establishment a mining pro

  62. Complete the sentence about Villa La Angostura with the correct year: In June ______, Villa La Angostura was declared a disaster area due to the massive layer of ash dumped on the community by the eru

  63. Complete the sentence about San MartĂ­n de los Andes with the correct year: The city was founded in ______ as a military outpost to secure the Argentine sovereignty over the area.
  64. Complete the sentence about San Martín de los Andes with the correct year: The economy of the then-mountain village was based on wood logging and husbandry until the opening of the Lanín National Park

  65. Complete the sentence about San MartĂ­n de los Andes with the correct year: In ______ a military expedition arrived in the area to take control of the zone due to increasing border disputes with Chile.
  66. Complete the sentence about Puerto IguazĂș with the correct year: Spanish explorer Álvar NĂșñez Cabeza de Vaca became, in ______, the first European to discover what are now called IguazĂș Falls.
  67. Complete the sentence about Puerto IguazĂș with the correct year: Despite its early exploration, the area remained occupied only by the GuaranĂ­ Indians until ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Puerto IguazĂș with the correct year: Territorial Governor Rudecindo Roca established IguazĂș Department, one of 5 initial subdivisions in Misiones, in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Puerto IguazĂș with the correct year: A Justice of the Peace, Alberto Mujica, was assigned to the area in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Tilcara with the correct year: The city is known in Argentina for hosting the Argentina national football team in a pre-World Cup camp in January ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Cafayate with the correct year: The town was founded in ______ by Manuel Fernando de Aramburu, at the site of a mission.
  72. Complete the sentence about Cafayate with the correct year: In ______ the Cafayate Department was created, of which Cafayate is the capital.
  73. Complete the sentence about Parque Nacional IguazĂș with the correct year: The park was created in ______ to protect one of the greatest natural beauties of Argentina, the Iguazu Falls, surrounded by t

  74. Complete the sentence about Parque Nacional IguazĂș with the correct year: The IguazĂș National Reserve was defined by law 18.801 of 7 October ______ as constituting the western part of the IguazĂș Natio

  75. Complete the sentence about Parque Nacional IguazĂș with the correct year: The IguazĂș River ends in the ParanĂĄ River 23 km beyond the falls, after a ______ km course.
  76. Complete the sentence about Sierras de CĂłrdoba with the correct year: Foothill dry forest, known as Chaco Serrano, extends from 500 to ______ meters elevation.
  77. Complete the sentence about ParanĂĄ Delta with the correct year: The Predelta National Park, created in ______, protects a sample of the Upper Delta.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Santa Fe, Argentina? The Mitre Railway station is no longer used since 2007, when defunct company Trenes de ______ cancelled its services to Santa Fe.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Bahía Blanca? The city was founded as a fortress on 11 April 1828 by Colonel Ramón Estomba on the orders of Brigadier-General and subsequent Governor of _____

  80. Which place completes this sentence about Casa Rosada? Normally, the president lives at the Quinta de Olivos, the president of Argentina's official residence, located in Olivos, Greater ______.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Palermo, Buenos Aires? MALBA, the Museum of Latin American Art in ______, is located next door between Barrio Parque and the Paseo Alcorta shopping center.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about San Telmo, Buenos Aires? San Telmo became the most multicultural neighborhood in ______, home to large communities of British, Galician, Italian and Russian-A

  83. Which place completes this sentence about ParanĂĄ, Entre RĂ­os? In 1730, inhabitants of the city of ______ settled at the other shore of the ParanĂĄ river.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about ParanĂĄ, Entre RĂ­os? The city is connected to the city of ______ on the other side of the Entre RĂ­os by the Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel inaugurated in 1969.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Concordia, Entre RĂ­os? Over half of them live under the poverty line, this being the third highest percentage in Argentina, after ______ and Formosa.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Trelew? Trelew was established on 20 October 1886 as the starting point for the Central Chubut Railway line that would link the lower Chubut River Valley to _

  87. Which place completes this sentence about TafĂ­ del Valle? There is road access to the city of ______ by National Route 38 and Provincial Route 307.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego? The biggest settlement on the channel is ______ in Argentina followed by Puerto Williams in Chile, two of the southernmost s

  89. Which place completes this sentence about Sierras de Córdoba? The Sierras de ______ is a mountain range in central Argentina, located between the Pampas to the east and south and the Chaco to the nort

  90. Which place completes this sentence about Sierras de CĂłrdoba? Most of the range is located in ______ Province, except for the southwestern margin which is in San Luis Province.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about El Calafate? The 220 kilometers separating Calafate from El Chaltén on the other side of the Lake Argentino in the national park are paved, as well as the 315

  92. Which place completes this sentence about ParanĂĄ River? The ______ River delta ranks as one of the world's greatest bird-watching destinations.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Concordia, Entre RĂ­os? Over half of them live under the poverty line, this being the third highest percentage in Argentina, after Resistencia and ______.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Trelew? The Trelew municipality is part of the ______ Department, whose capital, Rawson, is also the provincial capital.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Parque Nacional IguazĂș? The IguazĂș River ends in the ______ River 23 km beyond the falls, after a 1320 km course.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about ParanĂĄ Delta? In turn, the ______ GuazĂș sprouts two east-flowing branches in the territory of Entre RĂ­os: first the ParanĂĄ Bravo, and then the ParanĂĄ MinĂ­.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Paraná Delta? The ______ Delta Biosphere Reserve is composed of the second and third sections of the Islands of the San Fernando Delta, located just north of


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