1.- Mordillo's world.

Son of Spanish parents, his childhood was spent in Villa Pueyrredón (Buenos Aires) where he had a precocious interest in drawing. In 1948 he was certified as Illustrator at the School of Journalism. Two years later part of the studio's animation team bruche Burone while doing illustrations for children's stories (Perrault's Tales, Tales of Schmid, The Bremen Town Musicians and The Three Little Pigs) edited by Codex. For 1952 Mordillo Galas Studies co-founded, dedicated to the production of animations. Meanwhile, still developing his career as an illustrator and publishing some strips in local magazines.


2.- The 10 Most Popular Posts on Argentina Photo Gallery in June 2013.
National Reserve Laguna Brava, unique for its rugged beauty and landscape framework of the Andes.

It is a unique place for its rugged beauty and landscape framework offered by the Andes. The most impressive mountains in the vicinity of the lagoon are the Veladero and hills and Bonnet Large Cap Chico.It is 4200 meters and vicuña reserve (can be seen in many a few meters from the road) and has recently been named a Ramsar site.


3.- 8 Great Places to Visit in Argentina.

People come from all over the world to see what is perhaps Argentina’s star natural attraction: the mighty Iguazú Falls. Made up of some 275 individual waterfalls and cascades, the park in which they’re located has an amazingly comprehensive and well-maintained set of catwalks that allow you get right up close and personal with the vast sprays of water.At the heart of the site is a semicircular waterfall called ‘the Devil’s Throat.’ These falls are 80 meters high and a massive 2,700 meters in diameter, and because of the excellent catwalks, you can stand right over their edge in perfect safety.


4.- National Reserve Laguna Brava, unique for its rugged beauty and landscape framework of the Andes.

It is a unique place for its rugged beauty and landscape framework offered by the Andes. The most impressive mountains in the vicinity of the lagoon are the Veladero and hills and Bonnet Large Cap C hico.It is 4200 meters and vicuña reserve (can be seen in many a few meters from the road) and has recently been named a Ramsar site.


5.- The Andes mountain range shows its beauty in the Patagonian provinces.


The Andes mountain range shows its beauty in the Patagonian provinces. Millennial silent forests with native vegetable species are extended along the shores of glistening waters.
On top of the mountains, nature overflows with granite peaks and ice fields spreading their glacier tongues into lakes of unsurpassable beauty.
Imposing mammals and sea birds, half-way between real life and fantasy, spend certain seasons on the rough coasts of Patagonia where they complete part of their life cycle. Seals colonies play on the islets and sandbanks.


6.- Biodiversity in Patagonia Argentina.

At present the existing biodiversity in the Patagonia Argentina, we are referring not only to the particular characteristics of each of the species that inhabit this region, wildlife humble glance, but try to give a global picture of the immense wealth totalizing underlying this ground, across the spectrum.
In other words, we want to make come to understand that since the immeasurable beauty of the ocean, through the rigorous but captivating arid steppe, to the stunning charm of the Cordillera de Los Andes, from the solitude of the hills in the plains to the majesty of the lakes with its glaciers, Patagonia Argentina hosts, even in its apparent simplicity, "THE MIRACLE OF LIFE."


7.- From Uritorco water flows down, many in underground, coming to form springs.

The Uritorco is a hill of 1949 m in the center of Argentina, located in the north Punilla Valley, close to Capilla del Monte, in the province of Cordoba , accessible routes provincial RN 38 and 17. Its summit is the highest point of the Sierras Chicas, formerly called Viarava. It is considered the sixth Córdoba Natural Wonder.


8.- The 10 Most Popular Posts on Argentina Photo Gallery in March 2013.
The nine sites of memory.

From now until Tuesday, the Human Rights Secretariat ran signaled spaces where detention and torture during the dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, San Juan, and Mendoza Misiones.
The Federal Network of Sites of Memory signaled from today until next Tuesday nine former clandestine detention centers in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Mission, San Juan and Mendoza.


9.- Carnival of Humahuaca, popular celebration introduced by the Spanish and merged with native rituals intended to celebrate the fertility of the land.


The Carnival of Humahuaca is a popular celebration, held at the beginning of Lent (40 days before Easter), in the area of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, Province of Jujuy , Argentina.
Introduced by the Spanish in America merged with Carnival native rituals intended to celebrate the fertility of the earth and honor the deity of Mother Earth, Pachamama, for goods received. This is a short version of the festival adapted Kapaj Peruvian Inti Rami, which began in December and ended in March, where they drank, sang, ate and danced to the limit.


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Prehistoric Argentina, the promised land of scientists, paleontologists and lovers of the great lizards.

Argentina has proved, through the dinosaur paleontological Argentines, the promised land of scientists, paleontologists and lovers of the great dinosaurs that once, more than 65 million years, absolutely dominated the planet for a period of time over 160 million years.Argentina was in prehistoric times, a very populated by dinosaurs. At present, the finding of fossils has aroused the attention of paleontologists from around the world, as well as tourists from home and abroad.

This indigenous group inhabiting the region known as the Puna and its area of influence extended from the northwestern province of Jujuy to northwest Catamarca , comprising the province of Salta.

The cochinoa Casabindo and also of the Puna, were related to apatamas, like the atacamas the other side of the Cordillera, with whom they shared a common language, the Cunza.
The apatamas received cultural influences from its neighbors Diaguitas calchaquíes, omaguacas and Altiplano, were excellent farmers who harvested corn, potatoes and quinoa. These foods were stored in the rock walls of the mountains, in which they made holes where deposited.

Worked stone and wood, making shovels, hoes and knives. They domesticated the llama, which they used as a beast of burden and also got meat, milk, hides and wool. Another activity was the exploitation of the salt, from which extracted salt bricks then carried on the backs of flame to the various villages, where traded for various products, especially corn.
Like other towns in the region, which took apatamas offered their environment and so built their rectangular houses with stones and mud (cairns) and thatch, with an opening at the top as input, which was accessible through wooden ladders. It is noteworthy that the apatamas not own fortifications (pucarás) as omaguacas.

Wore a long tunic to the knees, which the Spanish called "T", of red or brown for warmth were covered with a woolen circle with an opening in the center for the head, called "poncho"; around his waist with a sash wore wool and leather sandals called "husutas" (sandals). They covered his head with a cap that covered the ears and also the neck and adorned with necklaces, pins, headbands, bracelets and pectorals made of bone, feathers, wood and metal.

Poor in the production of ceramics, apatamas craft developed great skill in woodworking and pumpkin.

The Omaguacas.
The omaguacas gave their name to the region known as Quebrada de Humahuaca in Jujuy Province. His name, according to Spanish sources, meaning "treasure heads" and included a large number of tribes which included the purmamarca, the tilcara, the tumbaya, the Maimará, what s Jujuy, the puquile, the Ocloya and others.

Place of passage between the Altiplano and the valleys of northwestern Argentina, crossed by the Rio Grande, this region was an area of ​​ongoing conflict, before and after the arrival of the Spanish.
While northern climate is dry and Puno, south has a subtropical environment with abundant vegetation and regular rainfall. The Rio Grande, in its 170 km route gives rise to the so-called narrow, exploited since time immemorial by indigenous peoples given their fertility.

The omaguacas were mainly farmers of maize and to a lesser extent potatoes and quinoa. They practiced hunting guanaco and rhea, The Taming of the calls that took advantage of its many products-and collecting carob.
Its production potter (fair quality) had the characteristic red background with decorations in black. Elaborated large round jugs and so-called "glasses-drums" of notorious Central Highlands influence.
Its activities included the manufacture of weapons such as bows, arrows, bolas and slings; worked with copper, gold, silver and tin. They wore blankets and long shirts uncu calls; were covered with ponchos, wore sandals, headbands, bracelets, rings, pectorals, etc..

Their houses were rectangular, stone, thatched inclined, no windows and a single opening.
The strategic nature of the Quebrada de Humahuaca made omaguacas a people prepared militarily. To defend against invasions fortified enclosures designed stone, which called pucarás and since they fought using bows and arrows, stone maces and bolas. Both Spanish Incas as experienced at the time Omaguaca resistance.

The diaguitas or calchaquíes.
Diaguitas biases that populated northwestern Argentina were constituted by the North calchaquíes, the cacanes in the center and southern capayanes, groups that had, among their common characteristics, the use of language or diaguita cacán. They were the most advanced between groups that populated the Argentine territory and this was due mainly to the powerful Inca influence.

According to sources Hispanic, diaguitas were "tall and strong"; wearing typical woven wool shirt adorned with colorful geometric patterns. They wore sandals and adorned with headbands, rings, pins, etc.. made in metals like gold, copper (which joined with tin for bronze), stone, wood, etc..
Of the Incas, the diaguitas learned to cultivate in terraces, thereby taking advantage of the hillsides to produce corn, potato, pumpkin, quinoa, beans, etc.. The aridity of the land was counteracted by artificial irrigation, building for this great canals and ditches, a technique also taken from Inca.
They practiced collecting carob-fruit of the carob-, that served food and the elaborated which alcoholic beverages such as chicha and the hosts. Achieved the domestication of the llama, made the most of it produced by this animal, which constituted an important part of the economy diaguita.
Spanish sources mention the bellicosity of the diaguitas, grouped into tribes whose names have survived in local place names: pulares, tolombones, Cahis, chicoanos, aimachas, Quilmes, hualfines, luracatos, etc.. who opposed a stubborn resistance to Spanish domination, turning into legend as names Viltipoco leaders, Juan Calchaquí Colca Pedro, Pedro Chumay, Pate, Ultimpa, Chalemín, Luis Enriquez and Martin Iquín latter, curaca (head) of the Quilmes, who paid dearly for his defeat to be deported en masse to what is now the province of Buenos Aires, giving rise to the current sad town that bears his name.

The capayanes.
Brothers of the calchaquíes language, the capayanes inhabited the provinces of La Rioja and San Juan, in a region between those, huarpes north and to the south, between the valleys of Famatina, Yacampis Sanagasta and crossed by the Colorado and Jáchal.

Village farmers, consuming Capayán corn, squash and quinoa that artificially cultivated in irrigated fields through canals and ditches. This technology demonstrates the Inca influence, as well as their clothing, fabric production and guanaco llama wool, copper metallurgy and gold. At capayanes attributed Sanagasta ceramic style or Angualasto characterized by geometric decorations in black on red background.

Lules and Vilelas.
Although the study of indigenous groups in Argentina requires us to contextualize within a defined geographical area, it can lead to the false belief that we are dealing with cultures fixed in time and space. Nothing is further from the truth, it must be recognized that in ancient times the great mobility of people was evident. Examples of this were the lules, hunter-gatherer group arrived in ancient times from the Brazilian Amazon to the western Chaco forest. From there, these warlike nomads made contact with sedentary peoples of Andean culture in the area of ​​Santiago del Estero and Tucuman, as tonocotés, who frequently harassed and looted. According to Spanish sources, the lules practiced cannibalism and not for the Spanish conquest "... tonocotés had finished with ..." said Father Barzana.

Of great size and slender, the lules preferably fed the products of hunting and fishing, complementing this activity with collecting carob and wild honey. They used bow and arrows, clubs and throwing darts. Usually naked, covered with feathers used rheas, so that the Spanish called "Juries" these Indians in the early sixteenth century chronicles, as this would come from the Quechua word XURI, name that designated Andean villages these birds runners.

For their part, Vilela, neighbors of lules and culturally related, differed from those in sedentary habits they had acquired, with an incipient agriculture and animal husbandry. In more peaceful habits, fond of music and dance.

Tonocotés.
Inhabitants of the south-central province of Santiago del Estero, these Indians had-like lules and vilelas - an ancient Amazonian origin, but were heavily influenced by the cultures of western Andean origin. Sedentary farmers, mainly concentrated tonocotés between Dulce and Salado rivers, limiting the sanavirones south, west to the calchaquíes and north and east by the warlike domains lules.

They grew corn, squash and beans in waterlogged soils near the rivers, which, after the flood, there deposited a layer of fertile silt.

Their dwellings circular branches and mud had the characteristic of being built on artificial hills or mounds known as barrows, grouped in villages surrounded with fences, to protect themselves from attack by lules and other tribes of the Chaco forest.
Evidence of his distant Amazonian origin is given by certain hunting practices, such as using poisoned darts and custom to ensure their dead and keep your bones in clay pots.

1.- The Andes mountain range shows its beauty in the Patagonian provinces.


The Andes mountain range shows its beauty in the Patagonian provinces. Millennial silent forests with native vegetable species are extended along the shores of glistening waters.
On top of the mountains, nature overflows with granite peaks and ice fields spreading their glacier tongues into lakes of unsurpassable beauty.
Imposing mammals and sea birds, half-way between real life and fantasy, spend certain seasons on the rough coasts of Patagonia where they complete part of their life cycle. Seals colonies play on the islets and sandbanks.
The world’s most important southern elephant seal continental colony is located in Peninsula Valdés.
Every year, southern right whales come to Nuevo and San José gulfs to breed.

2.-The nine sites of memory.

From now until Tuesday, the Human Rights Secretariat ran signaled spaces where detention and torture during the dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, San Juan, and Mendoza Misiones.
The Federal Network of Sites of Memory signaled from today until next Tuesday nine former clandestine detention centers in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Mission, San Juan and Mendoza. Coordinated by the National Archive of Memory (ANM) and under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Rights of the Nation, the network reported that the signs "include information on the operation of each site under the repressive system and expressed in the public space of the democratic state committed to publicize and condemn these heinous acts, so they never happen again. "

3.- Cartoon (Comic) in Argentina: Patoruzú, one of the great milestones rioplatense humor.

Patoruzú, created by Dante Quinterno in 1928, is one of the most important and influential cartoon Argentina.
Born as a secondary character in two short-lived comic strip, the chief Patoruzú-the last of the tehuelches, which the Spanish conquerors had seen at the time as giants endowed with prodigious strength-soon got his own comic, which would origin to the early sixties, one of the great landmarks of humor in Argentina.
Quinterno drew original stories intermittently for nearly forty years, and reprints were numerous. From the 40s and 50s of the twentieth century became one of the icons of popular culture Argentina.
The identity of Patoruzú underwent several alterations in the early years.

4.- Nahuel Huapi National Park is the oldest Argentine national park, in Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes mountains.

Nahuel Huapi National Park is the oldest Argentine national park, in Patagonia in the foothills of the Andes mountains. It was established in 1934, but the nucleus of the park is the land donated to the federal government by Perito Moreno in 1903.
The park covers approximately 7050 km² and is located in the southwest of the Neuquén and northwest of the Río Negro provinces bordering with Chile. The largest city within the park and a base for tourism is the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Villa La Angostura is another lakeside resort also within the boundaries of the park.

5.- The Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially Tatou, Ocarro, Tatu-canastra or Tatú Carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo.

The Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially Tatou, Ocarro, Tatu-canastra or Tatú Carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo.
It was once found widely throughout the tropical forests of eastern South America and now ranges throughout varied habitat as far south as northern Argentina.
This species is considered vulnerable to extinction.
These armadillos typically weigh around 28 kilograms (62 lb) when fully grown, but a 32 kilograms (71 lb) specimen has been weighed in the wild. A typical length is 89 cm (35 in), of which a third to two-fifths is likely to be accounted for by the tail.

6.- Cerro Aconcagua is the highest peak of the Americas and the highest peak in the world outside of Asia.


Cerro Aconcagua, often referred to as the "Stone Sentinel" ("Centinela de Piedra"), with its 6,962 meters (22,841 feet) is the highest peak of the Americas and the highest peak in the world outside of Asia. This giant towers all the neighboring five thousand meters peaks.
Some of the various challenges to climb the summit are : fog, altitude, cold and winds, especially the "Viento Blanco"; those very cold winds can blow at 180 kph (110 mph) and the temperature can drop down to -45°C (-50°F). The normal route is a non-technical climb, the main and only difficulty lies 350 meters below the summit, the «Canaleta» is a rocky couloir with an elevation gain of more than 350 meters (1,200 feet) and nearly 50% slope. Depending on the season you can have some compact snow neve making the ascent harder in some places; crampons, ice axes and ropes are then mandatory.

7.-  The most common birds in parks and gardens in and around Buenos Aires.

Hornero.
Abundant. It is seen in open areas, parks, fields and gardens of the suburbs, and various natural environments such as forests, etc.
She is seen on the ground, on poles and tree branches. Sing to pair. Build this amazing nest of mud.
It is the national bird of Argentina.

Chingolo.
Abundant. It is seen in all types of environments: squares, parks, forests, gardens, and all kinds of natural environments in the country, from Tierra del Fuego to the northern end.
It even abundant in the heart

8.- Argentine gastronomic dictionary.

Aji de Chicha. Northwest
Food that is prepared with broth, tummy, peppers and potatoes
Alcuco.
Central and northwest
Made from wheat trodden without cuticle, boiled in salted water, to which is added onion, squash, diced goat meat and finish seasoning with saffron, and chili fried fat.
Alfajor. Candy consisting of two small pieces of dough more or less circular, joined together with different types of sweets.
Alfeñiques.
Pampeana
Dessert consists of spheres of a thick syrup with lemon juice or mint or anise
Aloja.
Beer of the white locust. Grind the beans and put in a ferment with water Noque (lagarcillo leather) or bilqui (large jar cut in half). To shorten the operation often held up as a little yeast and dregs hosts concho made. A few hours is a cool drink and pleasant, after which acquired a strong taste

9.- Rafting, Kayaking & Sailing in the Andean rivers of Andean rivers Neuquén.

The Neuquén Andean rivers offer an exciting experience that allows tourists to visit places inaccessible and admire unique landscapes transparent descending by meltwater.
Whitewater rivers have all degrees of difficulty for those who want to practice: from the novice to the most discerning and intrepid visitors. The river forms an unrivaled Aluminé for this activity.
Also performed at the Hua Hum between Valdivian rainforest that straddles the river banks.
The kayaking is an activity that can be practiced on lakes, rivers and dams across the province.

10.- The "El Impenetrable" forest, four million hectares in northern Argentina.

The Humid Chaco stretches across the myriad landscapes of southeastern South America, creating a transition zone between the Arid Chaco ecoregion to the west and the humid tropical forests to the east.
Parts of this ecoregion are so thick with vegetation that locals have dubbed it El Impenetrable.
The region encompasses the northern Paraná River and its Flooded Savannas ecoregion and extends north into central Paraguay.

From now until Tuesday, the Human Rights Secretariat ran signaled spaces where detention and torture during the dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, San Juan, and Mendoza Misiones.

The Federal Network of Sites of Memory signaled from today until next Tuesday nine former clandestine detention centers in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Mission, San Juan and Mendoza. Coordinated by the National Archive of Memory (ANM) and under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Rights of the Nation, the network reported that the signs "include information on the operation of each site under the repressive system and expressed in the public space of the democratic state committed to publicize and condemn these heinous acts, so they never happen again. "


The activity will begin this morning, at 11.30, in Misiones, when signaled Police Headquarters, which was the most important secret center of the province, located in Buenos Aires from Santiago del Estero and Tucuman, in the provincial capital.

Also today, but at 1430, it signaled the Job Caminero of Pilar, in Cordoba , located on National Route 9 and Boulevard Perón. Since before the last coup and until 1978, the police station was used as clandestine detention and torture, repression within the circuit under the Department of Information of the Police of the Province of Córdoba (D-2), under the command Third Army Corps.

Then, at 19, will mark the Legislature former San Juan (Stadium Park May Open), in the city of San Juan, located in Urquiza between May 25 and San Luis. The Legislative Building was used as illegal detention center during the days after the March 24, 1976.
The activity will continue in Santa Fe , tomorrow, at 17, when he signaled the Foot Guards Reinforced (GIR), the Commissariat 4th, the Department of the Police Information (D-2) and the Police Station 1st City of Santa Fe (Nicasio Orono 793).


On Sunday 24, at 10, in Mendoza , it signaled the D-2 or Palace Police (Police Headquarters Mendoza), located in Belgrano and Peltier of the provincial capital. The Information Department of the Chief of Police of Mendoza, who worked at the Palace Police, was the most important secret center of the province and operated since 1974, systematically, from the blow.

Finally, on Tuesday, 26, at 12, is signaled Investigation Brigade of San Justo, in the Buenos Aires district of La Matanza, located in Salta 2450. This clandestine center joined the Circuit Camps, as known to the largest network of illegal detention spaces in the province. He was also part of Operation Condor, and there spent more than a hundred persons persecuted for their political, social and union.

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