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Argentina in a nutshell: eight friendly questions about the essentials. Everyone can play along and discover something new on the way.
Postcard collector 0–3 · Patagonia adventurer 4–6 · Argentina at heart 7–8
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Buenos Aires means 'fair winds' in Spanish, something every sailor hoped for. Its grandest avenue, the Avenida 9 de Julio, is about 140 metres wide, and snow is so rare there that the last snowfall in the city was in July 2007.
Photo: Deensel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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This is the Sun of May, with 32 rays, half of them straight and half wavy, and the flag of neighbouring Uruguay has one too. The flag was first raised in the city of Rosario in 1812 and the sun was added in 1818; a plain version without the sun, called the 'ornamental flag', counts as a national flag too.
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Argentina's coast runs for about 4,700 km along the Atlantic, while neighbouring Chile, on the other side of the mountains, faces the Pacific. The country's biggest seaside resort, Mar del Plata, kicks off its summer season every December.
Photo: Planmdq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Gauchos rode the plains, called the pampas, from the 1600s onwards, working cattle with a lasso or with bolas: three leather-bound stones tied together with straps. A gaucho's poncho was coat, saddle blanket and bed in one, and gauchos are proud folk heroes in Uruguay and southern Brazil too.
Photo: Eugenio Courret, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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This is the Perito Moreno Glacier, named after the 19th-century explorer Francisco Moreno. The glacier is about 30 km long, and its front is about 5 km wide and rises on average about 75 metres above the water of Lake Argentino.
Photo: Fernando, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Southern right whales arrive between May and December, because the water there is calmer and warmer than in the open sea. They sometimes hold their huge tails up in the air to catch the wind, a habit known as 'tail sailing'.
Photo: Michaël CATANZARITI, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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When a railway line there closed in 1954, the spot became a rubbish dump, until the local painter Benito Quinquela Martín spent three years brightening the walls with colour. Today Caminito is an open-air street museum in La Boca, the neighbourhood of the famous football club Boca Juniors.
Photo: Hernán Piñera, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Lionel Messi was born in Rosario in 1987. When he was 13, FC Barcelona were so keen to sign him that a club director wrote his first agreement on a paper napkin, and in 2022 he became the first player to win the World Cup's Golden Ball, for the best player, for a second time.
Photo: Bryan Berlin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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