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ARGENTINA Comprising almost the entire southern half of South America, Argentina is the worlds eighth largest country, covering an area of 2.8 million square km. Argentina possesses some of the worlds tallest mountains, expansive deserts, and impressive waterfalls, with the diversity of the land ranging from wild, remote areas in southern Patagonia to the bustling metropolis of Buenos Aires in the north. Its six major regions are as follows: Cuyo the Andean Northwest安第斯山西北This area surrounding the Andes 安第斯山脉began as a colony of Peru, but today only a few miners and herders occupy this unforgiving region of volcanic peaks and salt lakes. Very little rain falls in Cuyo, though to the east are found the fertile river valleys and subtropical lowlands of the Gran Chaco格兰查科（横贯阿根廷、玻利维亚、巴拉圭的南美洲亚热带地区. Mesopotamia美索不达米亚 the NortheastMesopotamia, a broad, flat plain between the Parana and Uraguay Rivers in northern Argentina, is wet, swampy沼泽的 and extremely hot during the summer. The northern province of Misiones, a more mountainous region nearly enclosed by Brazil and Paraguay, is densely forested and contains a section of the majestic Iguazu Falls. The ChacoThis parched area in the west is part of the enormous Gran Chaco, a region that Argentina shares with Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil. The Chaco contains both grassland and thorny forest. The PampasThese fertile plains are Argentinas bread- basket. They consist of the Humid Pampas along the seaboard and the Dry Pampas in the west and south. The region includes Buenos Aires, as well as the world- class beaches of its surrounding area. Patagonia and the Lake DistrictSouth of the Rio Colorado, experiences a desert climate, although temperatures range from mild to subzero and terrain varies from bucolic river valleys to the gigantic, ice-capped southern Andes. Its cool grazing grounds support enormous flocks of sheep, and numerous fruit and vegetable farms can be found in the valleys. Patagonia also holds vast reserves