ARGENTINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000700180001-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: PHOTO

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STATUTE MILES
SHAPED LIKE A RIB STEAK with
the Andes for a bone, Argentina has
long been a world leader in meat pro-
duction. Some 2,300 miles long by 900
at its widest, the nation spans most
od?
~ane,ro \ with a good climate for
COFCAPG, ~. food crops. Three-
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F `05, ? i quarters of its people
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f.- s? ?~ Buenos Aires. During
centuries of Spanish
dominion, Argentina
remained a backwater
of empire, providing mules
and supplies for mines of Peru
and Bolivia. Freedom came in 1816.
In the 1880's, waves of immigrants,
mainly Italians and Spaniards, settled
the fertile pampa.
AREA: 1,072,000
sq. Mi. POPULA-
TION: 25,000,000.
CAPITAL: Buenos
Aires, 8,500,000.
LANGUAGE: Spanish. RELIGION: Roman
Catholic. ECONOMY: Farming, ranching,
manufacturing. Exports meat, hides, grain.
CLIMATE: Subtropical to subantarctic.