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CAPITAL Buenos Aires
AREA 2,776,653 sq km
POPULATION 34 million
LANGUAGE Spanish
CURRENCY Peso
TIME GMT -4 hours
TELEPHONE CODES 00 54
ELECTRICITY 220V, 50Hz
 
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Visas: Most foreigners do not need visas. In theory, you will be issued free, renewable 90-day tourist cards on arrival.

Public holidays: New Years Day; Maundy Thursday; Good Friday; Labour Day; National Day (25 May); Malvinas Islands Memorial Day (10 June); Flag Day (20 June); Independence Day (9 July); Death of General San Martin (17 Aug); Columbus Day (12 Oct); Immaculate Conception; Christmas; New Year?s Eve.

Good buys: Leather goods

Local dishes: Argentina is renowned for its beef and as a consequence steak is served everywhere. It is delicious and ridiculously cheap.

Interesting fact: Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world.

Good reading: Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia is an informed synthesis of life and landscape. Gerald Durrell's entertaining accounts of his travels in Argentina include The Drunken Forest and The Whispering Land.
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