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Interesting Facts about Argentina

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Argentina.

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22 curious facts about Argentina.

When Argentine children lose a baby tooth, they will put it under their pillow at night. During the night, a little mouse called "El Ratón Perez" will come and take the tooth, and leave some coins.
Llamas are good at climbing mountains. People in the Andes use them to carry things. They also make warm blankets and ponchos from the llama's wool. Llama meat is also common in many dishes in the Northern Andean region of the country.
The highest mountain peak in the Americas is Mount Aconcagua in the Andes Mountains, rising more than 6,900 metres.
The soil brought down by the rivers flowing into the Río de la Plata has created landfill over the centuries that has allowed Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, to advance several miles into the large river mouth.

One of Argentina's greatest military leaders was General José Francisco de San Martín, who led an army across the Andes. He was a professional soldier. This national hero helped lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in Argentina (1812), Chile (1818) and Perú (1821).
Approximately 2,890,151 people live in Buenos Aires with upwards of 11 million including surrounding suburbs. A huge amount of people commute to Buenos Aires every day. There is a saying that a Porteño speaks Spanish, eats Italian, dresses like a Frenchman and thinks he is an Englishman.
Sixty percent of Argentinians own their homes and often build additional rooms rather than moving to larger houses.
The Argentinian currency has changed twice in the past 14 years. In 1985, it changed from the peso to the austral. In 1992, the government introduced the peso argentino.
MERCOSUR, a South American free trade agreement signed by Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil, was formed in 1991 to encourage trade among the four countries and allowed these countries to compete internationally.
Argentinian Juan Manuel Fangio is the only person in the world to win the Formula One Grand Prix automobile race five times: in 1951 and 1954 - 1957.