OUR ARGENTINEAN
THE SHIELD
            The current Argentinean national shield is practically the same one that created the Assembly of 1813 as symbol of its sovereignty in the territories of the Counties Together of the River of the Silver. 
It constitutes it an oval field divided in a blue superior fringe and another inferior one white, with two crisscross hands, symbol of the national unit, sustaining a cap frigio that identifies the homeland; two branches of united laurel for a blue and white tape surround the oval in whose part superior appears a figured sun. 
            The tape of Carlos' III order are among the most commendable versions in the colors native Argentineans that estenta the colors marianos; the shield of the city of Buenos Aires, in which figured the blue of the sky and the target of the River of the Silver, and the denomination of Argentina given to the Rio Plata territories, which would have inspired the representation of the River of the Silver (white) and of their banks (you blue).
THE ARGENTINEAN NATIONAL HYMN
            The hymn national Argentinean was the result of giving to the Counties Together of the River of the Silver a representative musical piece. 
            In accordance with this purpose, March of 1813, 6 the General Assembly took charge to the poet Vicente López and Plans and to musician Blas Parera the creation of a native hymn that exalted the cause emancipadora born in 1810. Months later, the responsibility was completed and the Argentinean national hymn was sung the night of May of 1813, 28 like part of the celebrations of the Revolution of May for the first time. 
            Later, in 1848 and 1860, musician Juan Pedro Esnaola introduced the musical arrangements. The considerable extension of their letter and the disa
       NATIONAL HYMN
Hear, humans the sacred scream 
Freedom, freedom, freedom. 
Hear the noise of broken chains. 
See in throne to the noble equality. 
Already in their worthy throne they opened up 
The Counties Together of the South. 
And those free of the world respond 
To the great town Argentinean health. 
Choir 
Be eternal the laurels, 
That we knew how to get; 
Crowned of glory we live, 
Or let us swear with glory to die.
GENERAL DATA 
Official denomination: Republic Argentina 
Surface: 3 761 274 square km (Antártida and islands of the Atlantic South 969 464 square km) 
Absolute population: 32 608 560 inhabitants 
Federal capital: Buenos Aires 
It structures administrative: 23 counties and 1 federal district 
Monetary unit: Weight 
Languages: Spanish (official), Quechua (in the NO), Guarani (in the NE) 
The population's origin: European origin (98%); indigenous (2%) 
Beliefs: Catholic Christianity (92,8%), Protestant Christianity, Judaism 
Density: 11,7 hab. squared /km 
Important cities: Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza 
Vegetative growth: 12,8% 
It forms of government: Federal republic 
Day of the independence: July 9
ECONOMIC INDICATORS 
Active population: 11 548 000 hab (10,4% agrícultura) 
Tourism: 2 005 000 annual visitors 
Imports: 5 230 mill. of dollars it USES 
Exports: 9 976 mill. of dollars it USES 
Cultivated surface: 12,9% 
Rail net: 34 192 km 
Net of highways: 211 369 km 
Freeways: 4 835 km 
Aviation: 84 000 000 km of annual flights 
Marina: 479 ships (1 889 999 t of I arch gross)
THE ENERGY 
Argentina occupies the first position in the continent as country producing of energy, and you autoabastece almost in 90%. The main sources producers are the rivers Córdoba, Mendoza and Tucumán, as well as the torrentosos Neuquén and Limay in the area patagónica on whose courses have been built big central hydroelectric. The hydroelectric production experienced a spectacular peak in 1994 with the full operation in the NE of the hydroelectric complex country of the gigantic one of Yaciretá-Apipé. 
They complete this production the thermal power stations of Buenos Aires and Mercedes, and the nuclear of Atucha 1, in Buenos Aires, and Dam, in Córdoba. 
Although the national energy plan has tried to balance the different sources of energy production, it has not considered in the same measure the environmental impact that the realization of the different power stations has taken place. This way, the prey of Yaciretá-Apipé and other built ones on the river Paraná, included the Brazilians, they have flooded thousands of hectares, causing a radical alteration of the regional ecosystem.
STATISTICAL DEMOGRAPHIC 
Urban population: 86,2% 
Vegetative growth: 12,8% 
Rate of natality: 21,4% 
Rate of mortality: 8,6% 
Rate of infantile mortality: 32,2% 
Index of masculinity: 96 males for each 100 women 
Esperanza of life: males (67,3 years); women (74 years) 

SOCIAL INDICATORS 
Literacy: 95,5% 
Radio apparatuses for 100 hab.: 64,5 
Televisions for 100 hab.: 21 
Telephones for 100 hab.: 11,3 
Hospital beds for 1 000 hab.: 4,6 
Number of hospitals: 3 186 
Total of housings: 10 096 875 
Automobiles of tourism: 5 680 000 units
POLITICAL DATA 
It forms of government: Federal republic 
Headquarters of the State: President of the Republic (chosen every 4 years) 
To be able to executive: President of the Republic and council of Ministers 
To be able to legislative: Bicameral congress (Camera of Deputies: 254 members; Senate: 72 members) 
Political Party: Alliance for the work, the justice and the Education (Union Civic Radical and Front Solidary Country); Party justicialista; Alliance Action for the Republic

DIVISION POLITICIAN ADMINISTRATIVA

PROVINCIAS KM CUADRADOS CAPITAL
Buenos aires  307 571 La Plata
Catamarca 102 602 San Fernando del valle de Catamarca
Chaco 99 633 Resistencia
Chubut 224 686 Rawson
Córdoba 165 321 Córdoba
Corrientes 88 199 Corrientes
Entre Ríos 78 781 Paraná
Formosa 72 066 Formosa
Jujuy 53 219 San Salvador de Jujuy
La Pampa 143 440 Santa Rosa
La Rioja 89 680 La Rioja
Mendoza  148 827 Mendoza
Misiones 29 801 Posadas
Neuquén 94 078 Neuquén
Río Negro 203 013 Viedma
Salta 155 488 Salta
San Juan 89 651 San Juan
San Luis 76 748 San Luis
Santa Cruz 243 943 Río Gallegos
Santa Fe 133 007 Santa Fe
Santiago del Estero 136 351 Santiago del Estero
Tucumán 22 524 San Miguel de Tucumán
Tierra del Fuego,
Antártida e Islas
del Atlántico Sur		 1 002 445 Ushuaia
Capital Federal
Argentina
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Buenos Aires
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