Se acerca el Bicentenario!

En breve, se cumplirán 200 años de la Revolución que inició el camino hacia la Independencia de la Argentina. Se espera una gran celebraciòn que dará lugar a lo largo de la Avenida 9 de Julio. Todo el país está muy ansioso por los festejos.

Mas info en http://www.bicentenariociudad.gob.ar/

Puente del Inca - Mendoza

Puente del Inca, Spanish for "the Inca's Bridge", is a natural arch that forms a bridge over the Vacas River, a tributary of the Mendoza River. It is located in Mendoza Province, Argentina near Las Cuevas.

In the early twentieth century there was a big thermal resort and Spa that used the hot springs tocure some illnesses (a spa still survives further down the river at Cacheuta). There was a train station that is still standing there, and tourists arrived by train to the resort. This was one of the last Argentine stations of the Transandine Railway before the train continued into Chile, traveling through a long tunnel under the Andes.

The abandoned train station has been turned into a mountaineering museum (the "Museo del Andinista"), founded by a group of mountain climbers from the Argentine province of Rosario to display the cultural history of the Aconcagua area. The museum is open to the public during the summer and is run by the founding group of friends.

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For more information, please visit Mendoza's Tourism Website @ http://www.turismo.mendoza.gov.ar/index.php/home

Chaco Fact Sheet

Name: Provincia del Chaco

Capital City: Resistencia

Divisions: 25 Departments

Population: 984.446

Borders: Salta and Santiago del Estero to the west; Formosa to the

north and east, Corrientes and de Republic of Paraguay to the

southeast and Santa Fe to the south.

Geography:

The province lies in the Gran Chaco plains, also known as the

Green Hell for its extreme weather conditions. Frequent droughts

make for desert-like parts of the geography. Yet, torrential rains

and occasional floods create areas of rainforest habitat.

Rio Negro ("Black River"), eastern Chaco. Differences in

vegetation show the unequal distribution of precipitation: An

Impenetrable ("Impenetrable") dense dry forest lies in the west,

with precipitations of around 600 mm per year, and the more humid

east, with 1,100 mm

annual precipitation, holds the Selva Chaqueña, a jungle with no

dry season.

The rivers of the province end in either the Paraná River or the

Paraguay River, and run from west to east. The most important of

these are the Bermejo River,

Río de Oro, Guaycurú Grande, Guaycurú Chico, Salado River,

Negro River, Palometa and

Tapenagá. The area is inhabited by exotic wildlife, including

crocodiles, monkeys, tarantulas, wild boars, jaguars, giant

armadillos, anacondas, rattlesnakes, and a variety of other

poisonous snakes.

Transport:

Major highways include 11 north from Santa Fé province north via

Resistencia to Formosa, 16 across the Paraná from Correntes

322 km north-west via Resistencia and Presidencia Roque Sáenz

Peña into Santiago del Estero province, and passing through Taco

Pozo in the north-east to Salta, and 89 from Avia Terai 245 km

south-west via Charata to Quimili in Santiago del Estero province.

There is an airport at Resistencia

Chaco National Park:

Chaco National Park was set up in 1954 to preserve a sample

of the eastern chaco. Covering some 15,000 ha it is 130 km

NW

of Resistencia, the provincial capital.

Natural Aspects:

Within the park's limits one can find several types of habitat such as

the chaco woods, palm-dotted savannahs and marshes and lagoons.

The woods are composed of the "red" quebracho reaching some

15m in height, the Gleditsia with its trunk covered with a thick wad of

long and sharp thorns, Tabebuias which are covered in pink flowers at

the end of winter, the guayacán of colourful bark. There are also

algarrobos (Prosopis sp) and guayaibí. The lower storeys are covered

in impregnable stands of ground bromeliads with bright pink flowering

heads which make any idea of walking through these woods an

impossible dream. The Negro river cuts off the NE corner of the park

and its riverine forests are particularlym dense. In the north-western

corner of the park the two "red" quebrachos grow side by side indicating

that the park is on the transition zone with the "dry" chaco. The difference

is to be found in the leaves - simple or compound. The fauna of the

Chaco is abundant and becoming used to the presence of man.

Plush-crested and purplish jays are curious and approach in search of

left-overs from picnics. The giant woodrail saunters through clearings

near the water. Also seen is the cream-backed woodpecker with its

brilliant red head and crest, and at night owls, nightyjars and the potoo are

active. Brockets and the howler monkey are abundant in the woods,

the latter justifying its name by the sounds it produces at dawn and dusk.

The white woodpecker and the savannah hawk are found in the vicinity

of palm trees; the grasslands where palms grow are the habitat for a gamut

of insects including colourful grasshoppers and mantis, some camouflaged

in their background.

On the lakes, Panza de Cabra, Yacaré and Carpincho, one can

appreciate the abundant waterfowl of the área. Neotropic cormorants hang

their wings out to dry, perched on some snag, the wattled jacana dances

over the leaves of floating plants and waterlillies, screamers scream and

herons such as the rufescent tiger heron wade. Common raptors at waterholes

are the snail kite and the black-collared hawk which prefers fish, watching

for them from a look-out from which it also emits its not-unpleasant call.

In summer wet places accumulate a surprising variety of frogs and toads

which shriek their invitations to their females in a mad chorus. Some species

are tree-frogs with specially adapted finger-pads for climbing.

How to get there:

From Resistencia take route 16 as far as the turn off northwards or route 9 to

Colonia Elisa, some 28 km away. From here it is some 15 km to Capitan Solari

some 6 km from the park. There is a daily bus service to Solari.

Of interest to the visitor:

There is a large shaded camping area from which all the trails leave. There are

bathrooms, fire-pits, tables, drinking water and electricity. A road heads NW from

the HQ/camping area - please drive very slowly. From it one can walk two trails

which lead to: * Carpincho and Yacaré lagoons; three kilometres through riverine

forest take one to the look-out over these bodies of water to see the great variety

of waterbirds. * Sendero de la Flora leaves from the camping area; 1.5 km long,

it helps you identify and enjoy the tree species of the park. A vehicle trail to Panza

de Cabra lake is another alternative to see and enjoy the nature found in the park;

12 km long through chaco woods where one can see what the chaco quebracho

stands once were, eventually reaching the lake.

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Do you Tango?

We know it is almost a must to come to Buenos Aires and enjoy a typical Tango-show. Here we would like to show you those we like the most. Click on each Logo to request more information about the shows!

The corner of Balcarce and Independencia St., the place where tango was born. With two centuries of history and declared cultural patrimony of the city. Watching the tango show at 'El Viejo Almacén' is like time-travelling, bringing you back to tango early days. Unforgetable experience.

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Sabor a Tango occupies the historic building of the 'Societá Italia Unita', funded in 1878, built entirely with meterials donated and brought from Italy. Nowadays it offers an exquisit show featuring Dance, Zapateo (traditional art of percusive dance), bombo drums and Boleadoras (traditional weapons). An amazing show of skills and movements.

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"The lights will dim and the orchestra will tune up as elusive legs will begin their dance."

Esquina Carlos Gardel is a revival of Tango's sophistication, luxury and style of the golden decade of Buenos Aires. The Show, with its incomparable technical display and an artistic proposal at the international level, weaves the audience into a mystic tango atmosphere. The sensuality underlying all choreographic patterns combine in a vivid tribute to tango. The orchestra mingles both dancers and voices, thus reaffirming unparalleled interpretative standards well worth of clap standing ovation.

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Get ready for a show that will hit your senses.

Twenty-two talented artists on stage: a sextet, two singers, five dancing couples and an 'all ladies' orchestra. Gala nights are back in Buenos Aires. The historical corner of Rivadavia and Rincón Relives the spirit of Tango in a perfect setting: Café de los Angelitos,"Living witness of the city of Buenos Aires".

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The show recounts the history of tango from its very beginnings in five memorable scenes. Dancers, Singers and the live Tango Orchestra shines in their stage. And before the show, you get a free tango lesson, to internalize the ritual of old-school tango.

Visiting Formosa

Formosa Province is in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region. Its northeast end touches Asunción, Paraguay, and borders the provinces of Chaco and Salta to its south and west, respectively. The capital is Formosa.

Located within the geographic coordinates 26° - 22°30' South, and 57°30' - 62°25' West, the plains run between rivers Bermejo and Pilcomayo with a slight inclination towards the Southeast. Due to this flatness, riverbeds are not stable, and small lagoons that are slowly reabsorbed arise. The average annual temperature is 21°C, and during the summer it can go up to 45°C

The subtropical weather is characterized with uniform annual rains in the east (1000 mm annual), while in the rest of the country winter is a drier season (80 mm). The humidity variation results in the jungle vegetation on one side, and the Chaqueño forest in the other. The limit with the Salta Province is known as the Impenetrable ("Impenetrable").

Formosa's protected areas are the Río Pilcomayo National Park and the Formosa National Reserve

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