Geography of Argentina

Argentina, meaning "land of silver," is a rich and vast land—second largest (after Brazil) in South America and eighth largest in the world. Its heartland is a broad grassy plain known as the Pampas. Argentina is located between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in the west. So we can understand that the geography of Argentina is very interesting. Geography of Argentina means everything from land to water, from boundaries to coastline, from climate to natural resources.

• Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Chile and Uruguay
• Geographic coordinates : 34 00 S, 64 00 W
• Map references : South America
• Area: total : 2,766,890 sq km
• Land: 2,736,690 sq km
• Water: 30,200 sq km
• Area - comparative: slightly less than three-tenths the size of the US
• Land boundaries: total: 9,665 km
• Border countries: Bolivia 832 km, Brazil 1,224 km, Chile 5,150 km, Paraguay 1,880 km, Uruguay 579 km
• Coastline: 4,989 km
• Land claims : Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  Argentine Antarctica
• Maritime claims : territorial sea: 12 nm
• Continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
• Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
• Contiguous zone: 24 nm
• Climate: mostly temperate; arid in southeast; sub Antarctic in southwest
• Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border

• Extreme points :

• Elevation extremes: lowest point: Laguna del Carbon -105 m (located between Puerto San Julian and Comandante Luis Piedra Buena in the province of Santa Cruz)
• Highest point: Cerro Aconcagua 6,960 m (located in the northwestern corner of the province of Mendoza)
• Natural resources: fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium
• Land use: arable land: 12.31%
• Permanent crops : 0.48%
• Arable land: 9%
• Permanent pastures: 52%
• Forests and woodland: 19%
• Irrigated land: 17,000 km ²
• Other: 87.21% (2001)
• Irrigated land: 15,610 sq km (1998 est.)
• Natural hazards : San Miguel de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the pampas and northeast; heavy flooding
• Environment - current issues: environmental problems (urban and rural) typical of an industrializing economy such as deforestation, soil degradation, desertification, air pollution, and water pollution

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