Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas at 6,962 m (22,841 ft). It is located in the Andesmountain range, in the Argentineprovince of Mendoza and it lies 112 kilometres (70 mi) west by north of its capital, the city of Mendoza. The summit is also located about 5 kilometres from San Juan Province and 15 kilometres from the international border with Chile. Aconcagua is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres. It is one of the Seven Summits. Aconcagua is bounded by the Valle de las Vacas to the north and east and the Valle de los Horcones Inferior to the West and South. The mountain and its surroundings are part of the Aconcagua Provincial Park. The mountain has a number of glaciers. The largest glacier is the Ventisquero Horcones Inferior at about 10 km long which descends from the south face to about 3600m altitude near the Confluencia camp. (Full article...)
Image 4The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period. (from History of Argentina)
Image 8Néstor Kirchner served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. His presidency marked the ideology called Kirchnerism. (from History of Argentina)
Image 11The ousting of President Arturo Illia was initially broadly supported but later deeply regretted by the Argentine population. (from History of Argentina)
Image 28Artifacts at the Pío Pablo Díaz Museum in Cachi, Salta Province. One of several in Argentina devoted to the ethnology of indigenous peoples (from Indigenous peoples in Argentina)
... that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island?
Anniversaries for June 4
1754 Miguel de Azcuénaga politician and member of the Primera Junta is born in Buenos Aires.
1825 Domingo French, a revolutionary who took part in the May Revolution and the Argentine War of Independence dies.
1987 Congress passes the Ley de Obediencia Debida (Law No. 23521), to protect the members of the armed forces and police after the dictatorship of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional.
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