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Buenos Aires
THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
Buenos Aires lies on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent. It is the capital and largest city of Argentina. Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Brazil are the largest cities in South America, and Buenos Aires takes the third place.
A Spanish expedition founded the city in 1536. Shortly afterwards however the settlement was destroyed by local Indians. Survivors escaped to the fort at Asuncion. In 1580, Juan de Garay refounded Nuestra Senora Santa Maria del Buen Aire. In 1810 independence from Spain was declared. After 1850, capital from Britain and labor from Spain and Italy led the country to become one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters. Later immigrants from Eastern Europe and Germany arrived, which further changed the character of the city.
Ushuaia
THE CITY OF USHUAIA
Ushuaia is the most southern city of the world. It lies at the southern coast of the province “Fire Land, Antarctica and the South-Atlantic islands” of Argentina. The population is about 50.000 people. The city is bordered by the last peaks of the Andes Mountains and the Beagle Channel (named after Charles Darwin's ship, HMS Beagle) and surrounded by lakes and bays, forests and glaciers. Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) is an archipelago located at the southernmost tip of South America. It is bisected and divided. One part belongs to Chile and the other part -- the portion in which lies Ushuaia -- belongs to Argentina.