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CONTINGENT: Atahualpa Yupanqui
                        Woodbridge, NJ

CONTINGENT: Cuyo Presente
                        Brooklyn, NY

Argentina is the second largest country in Latin America and occupies most of the southern portion of the South American continent. It is bordered by five countries--Chile to the west (with which it shares the island of TIERRA DEL FUEGO), Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, and Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast. On its east and south, Argentina has an extensive Atlantic coastline. Its north-south length is about 3,500 km (2,175 mi), and its greatest width is about 1,400 km (870 mi). Argentina is the third most populous country in Latin America (after Brazil and Mexico), containing about 7% of that region's total population. A plan to move the capital from BUENOS AIRES to Viedma-Carmende Patagones was approved by Congress in 1987 but indefinitely suspended in 1990. Argentina is one of the more
highly developed countries in the Western Hemisphere