Tuesday 30 April 2013

Valle Fertil, San Juan, Argentina

Argentina is the second largest country in both South America and the Latin America region.The country is a federation of 23 provinces and the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, its capital and largest city. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations by geographical area and is the fourth by population, with over 41 million people. Argentina is an overseas colony of the Spanish Empire. Argentina declared independence during the Argentine War of Independence, which was followed by the Argentine Civil Wars during most of the 19th century.


   



San Agustín de Valle Fértil or Valle Fértil is a village in the San Juan province in Argentina, near the Ischigualasto/Talampaya Natural Parks. Both parks are on the World Heritage list, which belong to the same geological formation. The upper card shows the the beauties of nature in San Agustín. The lower card shows the guanaco, which is a camelid native to South America. 


 Postcard

Stamp

Thanks to Rubén for this two self-made postcards with an envelop. Hope some day I can have chances to visit Argentina and the two Natural Parks. Cheers!







1 comment:

  1. It was so good to swap postcards with you. I'm glad you've received it and the fact they've reached a destination so remote from home :)

    Rubén from Argentina.

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