HOW ARRIVE
All the airline companies that fly to Argentina they arrive,
mainly, to the international airport of Ezeiza "Minister
Pistarini", located to 37 km of the city of Buenos Aires,
Federal Capital. He is united to her by the freeway General
Lieutenant Ricchieri (Tel. information: 4480-9538). Remember
that when leaving the country it will have to pay a rate of
U$S 18. The Manuel companies Store Leon (Av. Log and San Martín,
Tel. 4315-5115) and Transfer Express (Flowery 1045, Tel. 4312-8883)
offer each between the 05,00 half an hour and the 20,30 a service
of buses. The 11 price is of $ 15 and $ respectively and the
hard passage 40 minutes. Also taxis and remises exist (cars
of rent with driver) that makes the transfer (between $ 35 and
$ 38).
WHEN TO TRAVEL
It remembers that in the austral hemisphere the stations are
opposed to those of the boreal one. In general, the summer,
with smooth temperatures and long days, is the most favorable
station in the southern Patagonia and the andes. In winter
he is recommendable to travel by the north and the northwest,
because rains are less frequent and the tropical temperatures
descend some degrees. Autumn and spring are magnificent in
Buenos Aires, Whose and precordilleranas areas of the Rioja
and Catamarca.
HOW TRAVEL
Given the enormous dimensions of the country, the airplane
is the means of more apt transport in long distances, being
able to combine soon with terrestrial services. Acquire in
his country of origin Visite Argentina, that allows to travel
of economic form by Argentina. The cabotage flights are covered
by Argentine Airlines, Austral, American Falcon, Federals
Air lines, LADE and Southern Winds. The domestic flights and
towards Uruguay leave from the Airfield for light aircrafts
Jorge Newbery, located to the north of the city next to Rio
de la Plata. The rate of boarding in the cabotage flights
is of $ 7.05 and towards Uruguay it is of U$S 8.
Internal flight times from Buenos Aires:
Puerto Iguazu 1 h 45 min
Posadas 1 h 30 min
San Salvador de Jujuy 2 h 10 min
San Miguel de Tucumán 1 h 50 min
Salta 2 hs
Cordoba 1 h 15 min
Mendoza 1 h 50 min
San Carlos de Bariloche 2 h 20 min
Trelew 2 hs
Mar del Plata 45 min
Rio Gallegos 2 h 55 min
Ushuaia 3 h 20 min
Calafate 3 h 15 min
The terminal of buses of Buenos Aires is in the Av. Ramos
Mejía 1680, near the station Retiro (Tel. 4310-0700).
The units of long distance have services, conditioned air
and bar.
All the international companies of rents of cars operate
in Argentina. In Buenos Aires they make Ai Rent a Car International
(Maipú 965, Tel. 4311-1000), Avis Rent a Car (Cerrito
1527, Tel. 4307-5944), Budget Rent a Car (Av. Leandro N. Alem
1110, 8° floor, Tel. 5031-0199), Dollar Rent a Car (M.T.
de Alvear 449, Tel. 4315-8800), Hertz - Annie Millet Rent
a Car (Paraguay 1138, Tel. 4816-8001), Localiza Rent a Car
(Av. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1120, Of. 104 "A", Tel.
4331-5444), Thrifty Car Rental (Carlos Pellegrini 1576, Loc.24,
Tel. 4326-0418).
SHOPINGS
In the airport will be able to recover the amount paid in
concept of the Tax to the Added Value, if it has acquired
national products by amounts superior to
$ 70 (by invoice) in the commerce adhered to the system "Global
Refund".
Average of payment
Although the American dollar and euro generally are accepted,
the currency change in national currency is made in banks
and houses authorized. The credit cards of more frequent acceptance
are American Express, VISA, Diners and Master Card. It can
have difficulties for the travel check exchange outside Buenos
Aires.
Commercial schedules
Banks and houses of change: of Monday through Friday, between
10,00 and 15,00 hours.
Commercial offices: generally from 09,00 to 12,00 and of 14,00
to 19,00 hours.
Stores and businesses: in the great cities, of 09,00 to 20,00
hours, although in the interior usually they close at noon.
Saturdays, the schedule is from 09,00 to 13.00.
Coffees, confectioneries and pizzerías: they are open
almost always, with a parenthesis between two and six of the
dawn.
Restaurants: the lunch be served from the 12,30 and the supper
from the 20.30. Many establishments offer fast meals to all
hour.
Tips
Are custom to leave to a 10% of the amount of the service
in cafeterias and restaurants and to give a gratuity to doormen,
maleteros and ushers of spectacles.
GENERAL PERFORMANCES
Polite of entrance Passport in vigor, with or without visa,
according to the cases. Its embassy or next consulate consults
in. The visitors coming from nonbordering countries exentos
of all burden on trip effects and new articles of a value
nonsuperior to the additional U$S 300 and U$S 300 have left
if they were acquired in "free shops" qualified
in national territory. Any certificate of vaccination when
entering the country is not demanded.
Telephones
T he telephones public work with cards that acquire in kiosks
and offices of the telephone companies or with currencies
of effective legal course. Also they exist locutorios of payment
in cash (opened the 24 hours). In order to call from the foreigner
the code of area from the locality is due to mark to the national
area code soon, that is the 54, and to which it is desired
to call. In national calls it is necessary to put in front
the 0 to the respective code. And to call to the outside,
from the country, one will be due to mark the 00, the symbol
of the country and the code of city. Remember the existence
of tariffs reduced of 22,00 to 08,00 hours.
Trip maps
Can be acquired in the offices of Automóvil Club Argentino
(Av. del Libertador 1850, Tel. 4802-6061 y 4802-7071, Buenos
Aires).
Tourist information
Secretaría de Turismo de la Nación, Centros
de Información Turística: Av. Santa Fe 883,
(C1059ABC) Buenos Aires, Tel. 4312-2232 ó 0800-555-0016;
Aeropuerto Internacional de Ezeiza y Aeroparque Jorge Newbery;
e-mail: info@turismo.gov.ar.
Centros de Información Turística de la Ciudad
de Buenos Aires, en Av. Pte. Quintana y J.M. Ortiz, Florida
y Diagonal Norte, Carlos Pellegrini 217, Dique 4 de Puerto
Madero, Terminal de Ómnibus de Retiro y Shopping del
Abasto;
e-mail: turismo@buenosaires.gov.ar.
Prevention in security and attendance to the tourist:
Comisaría del Turista: Av. Corrientes 436, (C1043AAR)
Buenos Aires. Tel. 4346-5748, 4328-2135 ó 0800-999-5000,
e-mail: turista@policiafederal.gov.ar.
Defensoría del Turista: Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1835 (Museo
de Bellas Artes de La Boca "Don Benito Quinquela Martín"),
(C1169AAC) Buenos Aires. Tel. 4302-7816, Fax: 4302-7816,
e-mail: turista@defensoria.org.ar.
INTEREST INFORMATION
The Argentina name Comes from the Latin "argentum",
that means silver. The origin of this denomination goes back
to the trips of the first Spanish conquerors to the Rio de
la Plata. The shipwrecks of the expedition of Juan Diaz de
Soli's found in the region to natives who gave silver objects
to them and took to Spain, towards 1524, the news of the existence
of the Mountain range of the Silver, a rich mountain in that
precious metal. As of that date the Portuguese called to the
river of Soli's, River of the Silver. Two years later, the
Spaniards also used that denomination. The sanctioned National
Constitution in 1853 included the name of "Republica
Argentina" between the official names for the designation
of the government and territory of the Nation.
Situation, extension and limits
Located in South America and therefore in the South hemisphere
of the planet, Argentina has an extension of almost 3.8 million
Km², of which 2.8 belong approximately to the continent
- with a 54% of plains (prairies and savannahs), a 23% of
plateaus and another 23% of mountain ranges and mountains
and the rest to the Antarctic sector. Their 3,800 kilometers
in length extend from 22º to 55º of South latitude
Limits with Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile with
a perimeter of borders of 9,376 kilometers. The marine facade,
on the Atlantic Ocean, reaches the 4,725 kilometers.
Geography
The fundamental characteristic of the Argentine relief is
the enormous resistance which they offer the immense Eastern
plains and the impressive mountain range from the andes to
the west, the one that has the highest summit of the Western
Hemishpere: the Aconcagua, of 6,959 meters. In its route from
Jujuy to the Earth of the Fire, the mountain range exhibits
the wonderful variety of its landscape: from the plateaus
of the northwest - desert, with valleys, broken and colorful
hills to the region of the lakes, forests and glaciers of
the Patagonia.
To the north, the Chaco is a forest area related to the rivers
Bermejo, Salado and Pilcomayo. Between the rivers Parana and
Uruguay, the Argentine Mesopotamia (provinces of Entre Rios,
Corrientes and Misiones) is formed by lomadas low, lagoons
and matting that indicate the old layouts of these great rivers.
In some sectors, in the middle of the subtropical forest,
ruptures take place that favor as spectacular phenomena as
the Cataratas of the Iguazú.
In the center of Argentina, the Pampan region is the most
extensive and well-known plain. Of intense agricultural and
cattle operation, it includes the province of Buenos Aires,
the northeast of the province of Pampas and the south of Cordoba
and Santa Fe. Its landscape is interrupted to the south by
the small mountainous areas of Tandil and the Window, and
to the west by the mountain ranges of Cordoba. Towards the
south, from the andes to the sea, the sterile and pedregosas
patagónicas plateaus extend, whipped great part of
the year by the wind. The Atlantic coast, bordered by high
cliffs, draws winding forms, like the Peninsula de Valdes,
with its spectacular marine animal posts station.
Climate
Argentina has a great climatic variety: the humid in Pampan
plain, cold and humid tempering and in the extreme west of
the Patagonia, subtropical in the North part of the warm Mesopotamia
and in the Northwest. From November to March, the average
temperature is of 23° C and, of June to September, 12°
C.
Population
The present population of Argentina is of more than 36 million
inhabitants, of who almost half resides in the Federal Capital
and the province of Buenos Aires. These numbers indicate a
density of 13 inhabitants by Km². 95% of the Argentineans
are of white race, Italian and Spanish descendants mainly
of. With the arrival of massive European immigration, the
mestizo - it crosses between target and Indian went away diluting
little by little, and today only he supposes 4.5% of the Argentine
racial population. Pure the indigenous population - mapuches,
collas, tufas, matacos and chiriguanos- represent 0.5% of
the inhabitants.
Language
The official language of the Argentine Republic is the castellano
(or Spanish). In Buenos Aires it adopts forms of lunfardo,
slang of the Buenosairean scope.
Religion
The official religion is the Roman Apostolic Catholic, although
total freedom of cult exists. They practice in addition the
Protestantism, the Judaism, the islamismo, the Greek orthodox
religion, the orthodox Russian and others.
Currency
The Argentine official currency is the weight. There are bills
of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 pesos, and coins of 1 peso and
1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 cents.
Constitution and government
Integrate the national territory 23 provinces and the Federal
Capital, Buenos Aires. His government, according to the National
Constitution, adopts the representative, republican and federal
form, and the division in three powers: executive, legislative
and judicial. They carry out the Executive authority, a President
and a Vice-president by the term of four years, they can be
reelectos by a single consecutive period. They conform the
Legislative Power, two cameras, the one of Senators, composed
by three senators by each province and three by the City of
Buenos Aires, and the one of Deputies, integrated by representatives
chosen of direct and proportional way to the number of inhabitants
of each district. The President and Vice-president of the
Nation, as well as the Head of Government of the City of Buenos
Aires, the governors of the provinces and the members of the
legislative bodies are chosen by secret and obligatory universal
suffrage by the citizens of both greater sexes of 18 years.
The Judicial Power "is exerted by the Supreme Court of
Justice and other inferior courts".
Each province in agreement with the principles, declarations
and guarantees of the National and low Constitution the federal
representative system, dictates the own constitution that
governs its acts of government. The effective Constitution
data of 1853. Despite it has been reformed in 1860, 1898,
1957 and 1994. The last reform, of August of 1994, allows
the re-election of the President of the Nation, by a period.
Two historical dates
25 of May of 1810. The First Governing body Patrio was constituted.
9 of Julio of 1816. The Independence of the United Provinces
of the Rio de la Plata was proclaimed.
Symbols
The flag is made up of three horizontal strips: a white power
station with rising and two external, blue a sun celestial.
The national flower is the one of ceibo and the national stone,
the rodocrosita or "rose of the Inca".
Holidays
The national holidays are the following ones:
January 1° New Year
Marzo/Abril * Easter - Good Friday
April 2 ** Day of the Veteran and Fallen in the War of the
Falklands
May 1° Day of the Work
May 25 Anniversary of the First Patrio Government
June 20 *** Day of the National flag
Julio 9 Day of National Independence
August 17 *** Anniversary of the death of general Jose of
San Martín
October 12 ** Day of the Race
December 8 Day of the Immaculate Conception Holiday
December 25 Christmas
* of variable date.
** Holiday that if Tuesday or Wednesday takes place a day,
is transferred to previous Monday and, if Thursday or Friday
agrees with a day, following Monday is marked.
*** Holiday that will be turned the day that corresponds to
the third Monday of the respective month.
