The Third Army was also important because of its shared border with Argentina ( Brazil's traditional rival in Latin America ) and Uruguay.

When Argentina failed to react to Brazil's invasion of Uruguay, Solano López seized a Brazilian warship in November 1864.

Solano López then struck at his enemy's main force in Uruguay ; he was, however unaware that Argentina had acquiesced to Brazil's Uruguay policy and would not support Paraguay against Brazil.

The United States Department of State approved of closer ties between Brazil and Paraguay and especially supported Brazil's offer to finance a road project designed to reduce Paraguay's dependence on Argentina.

In the same year, Telmex bought from MCI Brazil's largest and most important long distance operator, Embratel, acquired Chile's Chilesat, took control of Argentina's Techtel ( operating in Argentina and Uruguay ), of which it already owned 60 %, by purchasing the remaining 40 % from the Techint group, and purchased Argentina's Metrored.

In the 1995 tournament in Uruguay, Balbo partnered Gabriel Batistuta in attack, and scored a goal against Brazil's Claudio Taffarel in an infamous quarter-final game that Argentina eventually lost in a penalty shootout after Brazilian striker Tulio Costa scored the Brazilian equalizer with 10 minutes to go – after clearly controlling the ball with his arm.

Brazil's higher level of industrialization and production capacity, as well as other economic asymmetries, have been a source of tension with Argentina.

The same case of the Mounted Grenadier Regiment in Argentina also applies to its western neighbor Chile.

In the mid-1960s, as the British Invasion was peaking in the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, a group of Uruguayan bands like Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Kano y Los Bulldogs, Los Mockers and Los Malditos broke into the mainstream in Uruguay's larger neighbor, Argentina.

City located at the junction of rivers Parana and Monday, neighbor of Puerto Iguazú, in Argentina, is called the " City of the Three Borders ", since there converge the territories of the countries of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south.

The south of the country is not connected to central Chile by road, except through Argentina, and water transport also plays a part there.

The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.

* 2007 –, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.

* Tierra del Fuego of Chile / Argentina was once a peninsula extending south from South America during the great Ice Ages

The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within of Asunción, the capital and largest city faces Argentina to the south and west.

It dominated a territory that included ( from north to south ): Ecuador, part of Colombia, the northern half of Chile, and the north-west part of Argentina ; and from east to west, from Bolivia to the Amazonian forests and Peru.

They also occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Americas from the Mid-Atlantic United States south to Argentina and Chile, reaching their southernmost point anywhere, at 47 ° S latitude.

The species range from northern Mexico and southern Florida south to northern Argentina, including the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola ( Dominican Republic, Haiti ), Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba.

** R. a. albescens, plains of Argentina south to Rio Negro.

Tradescantia (), the Spiderworts, is a genus of an estimated 71 species of perennial plants in the family Commelinaceae, native to the New World from southern Canada south to northern Argentina.

Today the Workers ' Party in Argentina has an electoral base in Salta Province in the far north, particularly in the city of Salta itself, and has become the third political force in the provinces of Tucuman, also in the north, and Santa Cruz, in the south.

The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from the southern United States ( southern South Carolina west to southern Texas ) and south to northern Argentina.

Four are strongly migratory, and their wintering grounds cover much of the Southern Hemisphere as far south as central Argentina, the Cape Province of South Africa, and northern Australia.

There are alpine tundra and snow-capped peaks, including Mauna Kea, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Andes as far south as the northernmost parts of Chile and Argentina.

It is bordered to the north by Antofagasta, to the south by Coquimbo, to east with Provinces of Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan of Argentina, and to west with the Pacific Ocean.

The Guarani villages located in the south of Brazil and in the north of Argentina are more marginalized due to European immigration following the First and Second World Wars.

* Braniff International Airways, connected Havana to the north with Houston, Texas, and to the south with Panama and other South American countries, such as Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, Argentina and others, with DC-6 equipment.

In North America it breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to the Gulf Coast and Florida, wintering further south from the southern United States through to Argentina.

As of 2002, the Africanized honeybees had spread from Brazil south to northern Argentina and north to Central America, Trinidad ( West Indies ), Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, and southern California.

The 21 species in the genus range across the north temperate Old World from southeast Europe east to Japan, and more widely in the New World from southeast Canada west to California and south to Argentina.

The Colorado River () is a river in the south of Argentina.

Cueva de las Manos ( Spanish for Cave of the Hands ) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina Cueva de las Manos ( Spanish for " Cave of the Hands ") is a cave located in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina, 163 km ( 101 mi ) south from the town of Perito Moreno, within the borders of the Francisco P. Moreno National Park, which includes many sites of archaeological and paleontogical importance.

However, there is one railroad that connects Chile with Argentina via the Andes, and there are others that make the same connection via southern Bolivia.

Nevertheless, there was also a migratory flow of German, Swiss, and Middle-Eastern immigrants arriving in Argentina.

This consumption grows during autumn and winter, or in the cold regions of the country ; there are two dates where consumption of chocolate infusions is traditional in the primary educational centres: 25 May and 9 July, that is, the two national dates of Argentina.

The reactor is also marketed abroad and there are CANDU-type units operating in India, Pakistan, Argentina, South Korea, Romania and China.

In Argentina, there is a memorial at Plaza San Martín in Buenos Aires, another one in Rosario, and a third one in Ushuaia.

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

Several families from Bere island, County Cork were encouraged to send emigrants to Argentina by an islander who had been successful there in the 1880s.

Argentine anarchist historian Angel Cappelletti reports that in Argentina " Among the workers that came from Europe in the 2 first decades of the century, there was curiously some stirnerian individualists influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche, that saw syndicalism as a potential enemy of anarchist ideology.

During the 1990s in Argentina, there appeared a stirnerist publication called El Único: publicacion periódica de pensamiento individualista.

U. S. journalist Paul Hoeffel in an article written for the Boston Globe concluded that, " Although there is widespread reluctance to use the term, it is now impossible to ignore the fact that civil war has broken out in Argentina.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

The railway which connects Asunción to Encarnación actually doesn ’ t operate, but there is still a connection between Encarnación and Posadas ( Argentina ) for the transport of agricultural goods.

Even today there are still large concentrations of San Marino citizens residing in foreign countries, above all, in the United States, in France and in Argentina.

An attempt sponsored by Spain and Argentina to qualify the right to self-determination in cases where there was a territorial dispute was rejected by the UN General Assembly, which re-iterated the right to self-determination was a universal right.

Argentina argues self-determination is not applicable, asserting the current inhabitants are " descendants of Britains who had been sent there after the original inhabitants had been expelled ".

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

In Israel some McDonald's restaurants are kosher and respect the Jewish Shabbat ; there is also a kosher McDonald's in Argentina.

Throughout the Andes that separate Chile and Argentina there are more than 1, 800 volcanoes, 28 of which are considered to be active.

As of 2008, Buenos Aires is the only Argentine city with an underground metro system, nonetheless there is a project to build a system in the city of Córdoba ( Córdoba Metro ) making it the second metro system in Argentina.

Besides monthly-paid Internet connections ( either flat rate or with a number of free minutes ), in Argentina there are also a number of Internet service providers that have commercial agreements with the telephone companies for charging a slightly higher communication rate to the user for that communication, though without any monthly fixed fee.

He lived in Buenos Aires in 1885, where he resumed publication of La Questione Sociale, and was involved in the founding of the first militant workers ' union in Argentina, the Bakers Union, and left an anarchist impression in the workers ' movements there for years to come.

The third category is por opción ( by choice ), this is given to some people of Spanish origins that, though not complying with the requisites to attain the original citizenship, are able to prove close ties to Spain ; this option is given mainly to the children of people that have attained or recovered Spanish citizenship after their birth, but it has age limits and one must exercise this choice prior turning 20 ( in some countries, like Argentina, prior turning 23, as majority of age is attained at 21 there ).