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This is a list of the localities of Argentina of 45,000 to 150,000 inhabitants ordered by amount of population according to the data of the 2001 INDEC Census. San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Buenos Aires) 133,602. San Rafael (Mendoza) 104,782. Rafael Castillo (Buenos Aires) 103,992. Trelew (Chubut) 103,305.
t. e. The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups. Modern Argentine culture has been influenced largely by the Spanish colonial period and the 19th/20th century European immigration (mainly Italian and Spanish), and also by Amerindian culture, particularly in the fields of music and art.
Argentina is home to a large community from the Arab world, made up mostly of immigrants from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey. Most are Christiansof the Eastern Orthodoxand Eastern Catholic(Maronite) Churches, with smaller Muslim, Jewishand Druzeminorities.
The listed cities below according to the 2010 & 2001 census by INDEC: National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina, [1] as well as 2010 totals by World Book Encyclopedia. The list is in order by 2010 numbers, unless there is no 2010 data, then 2001 numbers were used to substitute. Largest cities in Argentina
The number of cultural festivals with more than 10 sites and five years of existence also places the city as 2nd worldwide, after Edinburgh. [178] The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located in Buenos Aires, is the largest cultural center of Latin America, [179] [180] and the third worldwide. [181]
Argentine cuisine. Argentine cuisine is described as a blending of cultures, from the Indigenous peoples of Argentina who focused on ingredients such as humita, potatoes, cassava, peppers, tomatoes, beans, and yerba mate, to Mediterranean influences brought by the Spanish during the colonial period. This was complemented by the significant ...
ii, iii, vi (cultural) Moisés Ville is one of the towns that were founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution. The layout of the town is a fusion of a shtetl, an Eastern European Jewish settlement, and the grid-like style typical of Latin America. As many shtetls in Europe were destroyed ...
Foreign relations between Argentina and France, have existed nearly a century. Both states are members of the G-20. Argentina became an independent nation during the Peninsular War, a conflict between the First French Empire and the Spanish Empire. Argentina was a Spanish territory by that time, as the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, and ...