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...that during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
...that Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol, was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
...that a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
...that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest, Mercedario, were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
...that the controversial Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, who died in Southampton in 1877, was repatriated over a century later?
...that José de San Martín and Carlos María de Alvear helped depose Argentina's First Triumvirate?
...that the Viceroyalty of La Plata (pictured) —covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain?
...that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?

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