http://www.saltshaker.net/20060225/a-little-geography Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:16:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060225/a-little-geography/comment-page-1#comment-308 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » A little more geography Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:41:55 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20060225/a-little-geography#comment-308 [...] Buenos Aires - It’s a rainy day today, so I’ll go with a second post that’s been in the works for awhile. A few weeks back I did an early Saturday morning introduction to the geography of Uruguay, and have realized that I’ve never done the same for Argentina. This has been underscored recently by series of e-mails with friends, readers, and clients, who seem to be under the impression that Argentina is some little dot of a country, somewhere down there (vague hand wave in a southerly direction). I honestly don’t mean this to be condescending, so for those of you who take some of the following information for granted, please don’t take it that way. I’m responding to actual misconceptions on the part of folk I’ve corresponded with in various parts of the world. Let’s narrow it down bit by bit. First, Argentina is in South America. Not Africa (similar shape, different continent). Not Australia. It’s not the capital of Brasil. Nor Venezuela. [Thanks to all the various websites from which I’ve lifted the following maps.] [...] [...] Buenos Aires – It’s a rainy day today, so I’ll go with a second post that’s been in the works for awhile. A few weeks back I did an early Saturday morning introduction to the geography of Uruguay, and have realized that I’ve never done the same for Argentina. This has been underscored recently by series of e-mails with friends, readers, and clients, who seem to be under the impression that Argentina is some little dot of a country, somewhere down there (vague hand wave in a southerly direction). I honestly don’t mean this to be condescending, so for those of you who take some of the following information for granted, please don’t take it that way. I’m responding to actual misconceptions on the part of folk I’ve corresponded with in various parts of the world. Let’s narrow it down bit by bit. First, Argentina is in South America. Not Africa (similar shape, different continent). Not Australia. It’s not the capital of Brasil. Nor Venezuela. [Thanks to all the various websites from which I’ve lifted the following maps.] [...]

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