What are the five geographical themes of Argentina?

Question

what is the location, place, human interaction, movement, and region

Answer 1

Just so you know, location and place are the same thing.

Location:  Argentina is located in southern South America, east of Chile.

Human interaction & Movement:  The population density is greatest around Buenos Aires and the Pampa.  Patagonia, the southern portion, is much more sparsely inhabited.  

Not much movement now, but as far as immigration goes, lots of illegals entering the country from Bolivia and Paraguay.  About 80% of the population is originally from Europe.

Regions: There are 6 main geographical regions in Argentina:  The Pampas (silent s), Gran Chaco, Mesopotamia, Patagonia, Cuyo, and Northwest.

Answer 2

Argentina > Geography

Agriculture:

73% of the country area is used for extensive or semi-extensive cattle rearing; 4% is used predominantly for arable crops and 18% for mixed use. Between 1990 and 2001, the production of Argentina's 18 main crops increased by 71%.

Argentina's wealth has always been in the land. The huge expanse of flat grasslands, known as the pampas, which stretch for 2,000 kilometres across the middle of the country has soil which is ideal for both cattle raising and for growing many crops. Today Argentina is the world's largest exporter of beef and wheat. Other important crops include maize and sorghum whilst the area sown to oilseeds such as sunflowers is now greater than that sown to wheat.

Further south, in Patagonia, the land is less fertile and sheep farming is the most viable enterprise, except in the protected valleys of a province like Río *****, where apples and other soft fruit are grown. In the countryside around the city of Mendoza the altitude, plentiful water from the mountains and settled weather make the an excellent area for growing vines. Argentina is now the fifth largest wine producer in the world. Other Mediterranean fruits are also grown in this area. In the Andean region to the north of Mendoza much of the land supports subsistence farms with fruit, maize and peppers being grown on the fertile soils in the river valleys of Salta and Jujuy provinces. To the east of the Andes, there are largely uninhabited subtropical marshlands. Within this region there are some areas of forest and other areas in which cotton, tea and the mate bush are cultivated.

Overexploitation and soil erosion of the pampas have lead to an increasing need to use fertiliser. The cost of this together with falling commodity prices and lack of cheap credit to invest in modernization have put severe financial pressure on the 150,000 - 200,000 small and medium sized farms many of which are faced with bankruptcy. This has lead to the concentration of land ownership into fewer hands. Cresud, the only landholding company traded on the stockmarket, increased its holdings from 20,000 ha in 1994 to 348,000 ha in 1996.

To the south of Rio de la Plata a large coastal area provides rich fishing although certain species such as squid and hake have been overfished mainly by foreign fleets.

Relief and landscape:

Argentina is enormously varied in types of land and in climate. The country can be split into four main geographical areas

    * the Andes which stretch the whole length of the country. They are low to the south but high and dry in the north-west.

    * the North and Mesopotamia, principally made up of vast plains and gently rolling land.

    * the pampa, which makes up the middle of the country, also made up of vast flat plains. The western part is often referred to as the Dry Pampa while the eastern part, which receives more rain and is more productive, is known as the Humid Pampa.

    * Patagonia which lies in the south and is an arid plateaux. It is swept by almost continuous winds which are stronger in the south.

To the south of the mainland is Tierra del Fuego which is cold, wet and mountainous. The Atlantic coastline of Argentina is more than 2500 kilometres long.

Temperature and rainfall:

Argentina experiences a wide range of climate. The north is subtropical and temperatures there reach 40oC during the months of December to February. The central pampas region, where the majority of the population lives, is temperate. However, summer temperatures in Buenos Aires can reach 35oC with very high humidity. Temperatures in wind-swept Patagonia rarely creep above 20oC while the climate in Tierra del Fuego is cold temperate.

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