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Cities 1: City that shares its name with a wine-producing region
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Mendoza
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Cities 2: City commonly used as a starting point for Antarctic cruises.
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Ushuaia
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Cities 3: Second-largest city in the country, named after a city in Spain.
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Cordoba
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Cities 4: Resort city known for being the birthplace of Argentina's most famous political movement.
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Mar del Plata
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Artificial Landmarks 1: Famous cemetery located in Buenos Aires.
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Recoleta Cemetery
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Artificial Landmarks 2: Church located in the city of Salta home to the tallest bell tower in South America
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Iglesia San Francisco
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Artificial Landmarks 3: Red-and-white lighthouse adorning the Beagle Channel
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Fairo les Eclaireurs
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Artificial Landmarks 4: Skyscraper created to house the ashes of Dante Alighieri
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Palacio Barolo
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Natural Landmarks 1: Tallest mountain outside of Asia
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Aconcagua
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Natural Landmarks 2: Series of waterfalls shared with Brazil
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Iguazu Falls
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Natural Landmarks 3: This glacier, named for an Argentinian explorer, is unique from most glaciers in that it has been expanding rather than shrinking
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Perito Moreno
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Natural Landmarks 4: Major wetland system located in the northeast of Argentina.
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Ibera Wetlands
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People 1: Known as the liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru
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Jose de San Martin
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People 2: First lady who, along with her husband, gave the name to the movement described in Cities4
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Eva Peron
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People 3: Architect behind the Petronas Towers and World Financial Center
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Cesar Pelli
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People 4: Football star who has played for Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, and the Argentina National Team
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Lionel Messi
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History 1: Santa Cruz site known for hundreds of paintings that date back to a few thousand years after the last Ice Age.
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Cueva de las Manos
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History 2: In 1806 and 1807, this empire attempted to take Buenos Aires from Spain.
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British Empire
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History 3: Period of expansion that led to the expulsion of numerous peoples indigenous to the Pampas and Patagonia
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Conquest of the Desert
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History 4: US-backed anticommunist purge across South America that claimed 150-300,000 lives across Argentina
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Operation Condor
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Culture 1: Famous dance that saw a heyday period from the 1930s to the 1950s
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Tango
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Culture 2: Before Walt Disney, cartoonist Quirino Cristiani created the first of this medium with El Apostol, a satire of then-president Hipolito Yrigoyen. Unfortunately, the original copy has since been lost.
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Animated Movie
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Culture 3: In play, it's similar to a mix between polo and basketball, but this sport, the national sport of Argentina, has been played since the 1600s.
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Pato
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Culture 4: Famous epic poem centered on a gaucho (Argentine cowboy) forced into the wilderness after killing a man in a duel.
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Martin Fierro
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Wildlife 1: This relative of the pokeweed is the only large plant native to the Pampas grasslands; as its scientific name suggests, it has both male and female flowers.
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Ombu
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Wildlife 2: Similar to monitor lizards of the Old World, these lizards are known for their intelligence and are occasionally kept as pets (this led to them becoming an invasive species in the US Southeast)
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Argentine Giant Tegu
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Wildlife 3: The world's smallest deer
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Pudu
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Wildlife 4: Largest of all members of the order Carnivora, this is also the largest non-cetacean marine mammal
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Southern Elephant Seal
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Paleontology 1: One of the earliest dinosaurs
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Eoraptor
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Paleontology 2: The "Meat-Eating Bull"
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Carnotaurus
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Paleontology 3: Giant sauropod that is often called the largest land animal of all time, although this is disputed.
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Argentinosaurus
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Paleontology 4: Largest of the ground sloths
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Megatherium
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