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The Cave of the Hands in Santa Cruz province
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The 'Dirty War' involved state terrorism in Argentina against political dissidents, with an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 victims.

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Argentina

Population
45.9M
Area
2.78M km²
Capital
Buenos Aires
Continent
South America
35th most populous country in the world

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the Southern Cone of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km2 (1,073,397 mi2), making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.

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Photo: Pablo A. Gimenez from Buenos Aires, Argentina · CC BY-SA 2.0