tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54480023129017261432024-03-12T17:55:26.706-05:00Lady cuervo 200520988 Basic 2 2007-2Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-25181004870819750452007-11-20T21:41:00.000-06:002007-11-20T22:39:26.040-06:00THE TYPICAL COLOMBIAN RESTAURANTMy restaurant has four levels typical of a department each; is located in the area of the city of t bogota and esat work team composed of 20 cooks 15 waiters and an economic manager.<br /><br />The vision of this restaurant is to satisfy the palate of the customers who visit our restaurants. Feature funfamental is cooking food typical of our country, placing emphasis on typical meals and recalling the food traditions of each department. We now have different types of dishes, which are very cheap and very delicious.<br /><br />Most imporatnte in our restaurant is that customers always come out with the need to return to our site and try new dishes, which can keep in your mind the taste of the best meals and understand that Colombia has the best food in the world.<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#999900;">MENU:</span></strong><br /><br /><br /><ul><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OvoboOwfI/AAAAAAAAAMU/DGS9Jv7IdGo/s1600-h/2.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135141109278622194" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="195" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OvoboOwfI/AAAAAAAAAMU/DGS9Jv7IdGo/s400/2.bmp" width="200" border="0" /></a><br /><li>Ajiaco </li><br /><li>Rice to the Valencian </li><br /><li>Rice atollado with clams</li><br /><li>Chinese Rice </li><br /><li>Tray Paisa </li><br /><li>Bistec a Horse </li><li><div align="right"><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OswboOwcI/AAAAAAAAAL8/5BwA-OIaeJI/s1600-h/3.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135137948182692290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="176" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OswboOwcI/AAAAAAAAAL8/5BwA-OIaeJI/s400/3.bmp" width="263" border="0" /></a>Hot Pot</div></li><li><div align="right">Filleting Pesacado Frito</div></li><li><div align="right">Fricasé chicken</div></li><li><div align="right">Frito Liver</div></li><li><div align="right">Stir-fried chicken livers </div></li><li><div align="right">Lasagne</div></li><li><div align="right">Speaking in red sauce</div></li><li><div align="right">Lomo pork in green tomato sauce<br />Mold dried fish<br />Mold delicious chicken in the oven</div></li></ul><p><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OtULoOwdI/AAAAAAAAAME/mLm_syP5ChI/s1600-h/1.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135138562363015634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 259px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 204px" height="213" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OtULoOwdI/AAAAAAAAAME/mLm_syP5ChI/s400/1.bmp" width="227" border="0" /></a></p><ul><li><div align="right">Boy to orange<br />Muslitos chicken sabanero<br />Biscuits calf<br />Breast barbecue<br />Pernil pork </div></li><li><div align="right">Fish with mushrooms </div></li><li>Chicken lemon and honey<br />Pout bogotano<br />Rollitos veal "cordon bleu" </li><br /><li><div align="right">Roll sobrebarriga with beer<br />Sancocho fish</div></li><li><div align="right">Sancocho of Gallina </div></li><p align="right">Trout meuniere<br />Sobrebarriga with Beer<br /></p></ul><ul><li>Meat apples<br /></li><li>Cazuela seafood </li><br /><li>Center hip to the beer </li><br /><li>Pork bittersweet </li><br /><li>Chili con carne </li><br /><li>Chuletas pork with apple<br /></li><li>Chuletas of beef with blackberry sauce </li><br /><li>Cooked pork in the oven </li><br /><li>Cooked fast meatballs </li><br /><li>Escalopes chicken in sauce maracuyá </li><br /><li>Spaghetti with chicken in the oven </li></ul><p><br /></p><p align="right"></p>Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-6134641259470215112007-11-20T20:30:00.000-06:002007-11-20T21:21:12.624-06:00COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES<div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">ONE SILLABLE ADJETIVES</span></strong><br /><br /></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135122048213762434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 420px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 260px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="265" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OeS7oOwYI/AAAAAAAAALc/pplFaXtxTTo/s400/s+and+c+1+s.bmp" width="448" border="0" /></div><br /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">TWO OR MORE SYLLABLE ADJETIVES</span></strong><br /></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135122679573954962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 420px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 191px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="205" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0Oe3roOwZI/AAAAAAAAALk/VSdvznQxXtM/s400/c+and+s+2+or+%2B+syl.bmp" width="510" border="0" /></p><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">IRREGULAR ADJETIVES</span></strong></p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135123233624736162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="207" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0OfX7oOwaI/AAAAAAAAALs/rm3R3j-YDzw/s400/i+ad.bmp" width="433" border="0" /></p><p> </p><p>Total English - Pre intermediate - page 43</p>Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-37180054596088820502007-11-20T18:38:00.000-06:002007-11-20T21:20:39.781-06:00REVIEW AND PRACTICE UNIT 4 PAG 44<span style="color:#003300;"><strong>1. Complete these sentences with comparatives. Use the adjectives in the box.</strong><br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">-----> quiet - bad - exciting - old - far - happy.<br /></span><br />1. Her CV says she is only twenty - three years old. I thought she was<strong><span style="color:#000000;"> older</span></strong>.<br />2. This cafe is very noisy. Can we go somewhere <strong><span style="color:#000000;">quieter</span></strong>?<br />3. That film sounds really boring. Murder city sonunds <strong><span style="color:#000000;">more exciting</span></strong>.<br />4. My job is quite good. It could be a lot <strong><span style="color:#000000;">worse</span></strong>.<br />5. You seem <strong><span style="color:#000000;">Happier</span></strong> today - you looked quite sad yesterday.<br />6. The house was<strong><span style="color:#000000;"> farter</span></strong> from the station than I thought.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#003300;">3. Complete these sentences with superlatives. Use the adjetives in the box.</span></strong><br /><br />1. This jacket cost $350. It was <strong>more expensive</strong> one in the shop.<br />2. August is usually <strong><span style="color:#000000;">the hottest</span></strong> month in th UK. The temperature goes up to around 24°C.<br />3. Sam is <strong><span style="color:#000000;">the tallest</span></strong> boy in the class. He is nearly two metres tall.<br />4. Tis is <strong><span style="color:#000000;">the Fastest</span></strong> car I' ve ever had. It goes from 0 - 100 kilometres per hour in seven seconds.<br />5. Michael is <strong><span style="color:#000000;">the more friendly</span></strong> man I' ve ever met. He loves to meet new people.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#003300;">4. Complete the sentences using one of + a superlative + in/of.</span></strong><br /><br />1. It was vwry hot day. It was<strong><span style="color:#000000;"> one of the hottest</span></strong> in the year.<br />2. Susie's a very good swimmer. She's <span style="color:#000000;"><strong>one of the best swimmer</strong></span> in Scotland.<br />3. Harry's an intelligent boy. He´s <strong><span style="color:#000000;">one of the most intelligent</span></strong> is school.<br />4. It´s a very old house. It´s <strong><span style="color:#000000;">one of the oldest house</span></strong> in the town.<br />5. It was a bad shock. It was <strong><span style="color:#000000;">one of the worst</span></strong> in my life.<br />6. Marcos is a really brave soldier. He's <strong><span style="color:#000000;">one of the bravest</span></strong> in the army.<br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;"><strong>5. Add a word each sentence to take it correct.</strong><br /></span><br />1. <strong><span style="color:#000000;">Do</span></strong> you know why he isn't home yet?<br />2. Do you know <strong><span style="color:#000000;">If</span></strong> can I pay by credit card?<br />3. Can you tell me <strong><span style="color:#000000;">were </span></strong>I can find a garage?<br />4. Can you tell <strong><span style="color:#000000;">me </span></strong>whose car this is, please?<br />5. Do you know <strong><span style="color:#000000;">what</span></strong> time the next train for the Manchester leaves?<br /><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#003300;"><strong>6. Ask about the following things using DO YOU KNOW...? or CAN YOU TELL ME...?</strong><br /></span><br />1. Do you where find where cheap hotel?<br />2. Can you tell me internet cafe where ir near here?<br />3. Do you Know how much taxi to the airport?<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#003300;">7. complete the sentences using the words or phrases below. There are four extra words.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">-----> intelligent - reliable - brave - challenge - achieve my goal - skills - torch - tent - scissors - shelter.</span><br /><br />1. John likes to have a new <strong><span style="color:#000000;">challenge</span></strong> to stop him getting bored.<br />2. Oh no! My <strong><span style="color:#000000;">torch</span></strong> isn't working. Iforgot to get new batteries.<br />3. My car is very <strong><span style="color:#000000;">reliabe</span></strong>. It never breaks down.<br />4. I´d like to <strong><span style="color:#000000;">achieve my goal</span></strong> of cycling across Germany by the end of next year.<br />5. Have you got any <strong><span style="color:#000000;">scissors</span></strong>? I want to cut this string.<br />6. What are the main <strong><span style="color:#000000;">skills</span></strong> that you need to survive in the desert?<br /><br />Total English - Pre intermediate - page 44Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-67507758962597797972007-11-20T18:13:00.000-06:002007-11-20T19:48:16.364-06:00MANUEL ELKIN PATARROYO - BIOGRAPHY<span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">He was Born in November 1946 in Ataco (Tolima, Colombia), Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo is the author of the first synthetic vaccine created in the world for the prevention of malaria and recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the agency that gave the patent. </span><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N5mboOwWI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xbU09jjqtqQ/s1600-h/mep.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135081701290983778" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N5mboOwWI/AAAAAAAAAKc/xbU09jjqtqQ/s400/mep.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">This vaccine has already been successfully tested in more than 40,000 people in areas suffering from the disease as an epidemic (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil and more recently in a number of African countries). </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Malaria is a tropical disease that kills annually between 3 and 5 million people, causing between 300 and 500 million clinical cases in the world. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">The vaccine Patarroyo acts against one of the most virulent forms of this disease (scientifically known as SPf66), and has been shown to be effective for between 40 and 66 percent of adults in 77 percent of children under five years .</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">In addition, Dr. Patarroyo has been for the past twenty years a prominent researcher of other diseases and the possibility of obtaining new synthetic vaccines (something that Scientific did not expect to achieve by the year 2025). </span></div><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N51LoOwXI/AAAAAAAAAKk/WYhDlN7wfZw/s1600-h/patarroyo.jpg"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135081954694054258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N51LoOwXI/AAAAAAAAAKk/WYhDlN7wfZw/s400/patarroyo.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Doctor of Medicine and Surgery at the National University of Colombia, extended his studies in Immunology and Virology in the United States. Creator, en 1984, He was a Director of the institute Hospital San Juan de Dios in Bogotá<br /></span><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Now He is a teacher in Nacional University and teacher in the Rockefeller University de Nueva York and Estocolmo University (Suecia). </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Despite offers to work in research centers around the world, decided to settle in his country, Colombia, working with a small interdisciplinary team, and with too few resources to reach articulate a large research group. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">The school where he led currently working near 160 investigadores- has trained several hundred scientists. Lecturer in more than half a million international symposia and in a number of symposia and congresses is the author of nearly two hundred scientific publications. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Patarroyo has been awarded a National Science for the Third World (1990), the Robert Koch Prize of the Foundation of the same name (Germany, 1994) and Leon Bernard (WHO, 1995), among others. It honorary doctorate by several universities, including the Complutense de Madrid, the Laguna in Tenerife and the National University of Athens. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;">Since 1991 is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Physical and Natural Madrid and since 1996 Academic Honor from the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery in Galicia.</span></div></div>Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-69824679867586980172007-11-20T17:56:00.000-06:002007-11-20T19:50:12.701-06:00CURRICULUM VITAE<span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong><span style="color:#330033;">PERSONAL DATA</span></strong> </span><div><div><div><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">Name and Last name:</span> Lady Johanna Cuervo Vega. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">Date of birth:</span> 7 of July on 1987 </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">Civil State:</span> Single. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000066;">Movil phone:</span> 313 - 42017xx </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">Electronic mail:</span> </span><a href="mailto:didicuervo@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:verdana;">didicuervo@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> - </span><a href="mailto:lady.cuervo@unisabana.edu.co"><span style="font-family:verdana;">lady.cuervo@unisabana.edu.co</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#330033;">ACTIVITIES</span></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">School Degree:</span> La Enseñanza School with Emphasis in sciences and mathematics. Bogotá. 2004 </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="color:#000099;">University:</span> Sabana University - Medicine. </span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N1OroOwRI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/C6cVIevQa5U/s1600-h/1cv.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135076895222579474" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N1OroOwRI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/C6cVIevQa5U/s400/1cv.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">During the course of my life I have travelled for all my country Colombia and have known different cultures I have known cities as Cartagena, Holy Martha, Rioacha, Bucaramanga, Armenia, Pereira, Medellin, Baranquilla, San Andres and Providenvia, Cali, Cucuta between others. </span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">My parents are Ligia Vega and Antono Cuervo, they are owners of Toyocars Ltda,it is take care of Bogota. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N1tLoOwUI/AAAAAAAAAKM/KXqothnLCxA/s1600-h/3cv.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135077419208589634" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N1tLoOwUI/AAAAAAAAAKM/KXqothnLCxA/s400/3cv.jpg" border="0" /></span></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135077165805519138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N1eboOwSI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/m-idr9Gl0-A/s400/2cv.jpg" border="0" />At this moment I am Studying in the Sabana University in Bogota, Colombia. I am developing </span><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N2AroOwVI/AAAAAAAAAKU/GEkh3GX3tyc/s1600-h/4cv.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135077754216038738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0N2AroOwVI/AAAAAAAAAKU/GEkh3GX3tyc/s400/4cv.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">the program of Medicine and I want to specialize when I will be gradue of doctor in Pediatrics.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448002312901726143.post-89488669869392272532007-11-19T19:58:00.000-06:002007-11-20T19:50:46.435-06:00...ARGENTINA...<span style="color:#330033;"><strong>....ARGENTINA....</strong></span><br /><div><div><div><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwRWomOroI/AAAAAAAAAE4/UaM7ZJiv-w0/s1600-h/argentina-02.jpg"></a><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Natio</span></strong><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JACroOwII/AAAAAAAAAIs/kPKeHrPQgLQ/s1600-h/bandera[1].png"><strong><span style="color:#000099;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134736939971166338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JACroOwII/AAAAAAAAAIs/kPKeHrPQgLQ/s400/bandera%255B1%255D.png" border="0" /></span></strong></a><strong><span style="color:#000099;">nal name:</span></strong> República <a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RwA61-43-hI/AAAAAAAAAF4/q6HDd2pqaeU/s1600-h/bandera[1].GIF"></a>Argentina.<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">President:</span></strong> Néstor Kirchner (2003 - 2007)<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Land area:</span></strong> 1,056,636 sq mi (2,736,690 sq km);<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">total area:</span></strong> 1,068,296 sq mi (2,766,890 sq km)<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Population (2007 est.):</span></strong> 40,301,927 (growth rate: 0.9%); </div><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">birth</span></strong> <strong><span style="color:#000099;">rate:</span></strong> 16.5/1000;<strong><span style="color:#000099;"> infant mortality rate:</span></strong> 14.3/1000;<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">life expectancy:</span></strong> 76.3;<br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">density per sq mi:</span></strong> 38 <strong><span style="color:#000099;">Capital and largest city (2003 est.):</span></strong></div><div>Buenos Aires, 13,349,000 (metro. area), 2,768,772 (city proper) </div><div><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Other large cities:</span></strong> Córdoba, 1,486,200; Rosario, 1,276,900; Mendoza, 988,600; Mar del Plata, 683,700<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JCqroOwMI/AAAAAAAAAJM/Yhx0c9lz6vw/s1600-h/Argentina_1p_98.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134739826189189314" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JCqroOwMI/AAAAAAAAAJM/Yhx0c9lz6vw/s400/Argentina_1p_98.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ff0000;">Monetary unit:</span> Peso<br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwQR4mOrnI/AAAAAAAAAEw/qssdM1THtYw/s1600-h/Argentina_1p_98.jpg"></a><span style="color:#ff0000;">Languages:</span> Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French </div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Ethnicity/ race:</span> white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%; mestizo, Amerindian, other 3%<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Religions:</span> Roman Catholic 92%, Protestant 2%, Jewish 2%, other 4%<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Literacy rate:</span> 96.2% (1995 est.) <a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwUEImOrsI/AAAAAAAAAFY/duFuZVsbdiU/s1600-h/argentina-02.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JB_boOwJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/8qfMPxr7WQs/s1600-h/argentina-02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134739083159847058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JB_boOwJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/8qfMPxr7WQs/s400/argentina-02.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ff0000;">Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2005 est.):</span> $542.8 billion; </div><div>per capita $13,700.<span style="color:#ff0000;"> Real growth rate:</span> 8.7%.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Inflation:</span> 12.3%. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Unemployment: </span>11.1%. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Arable land:</span> 10.03%.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Agriculture:</span> sunflower seeds, lemons, soybeans, grapes, corn, tobacco, peanuts, tea, wheat; livestock.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Labor force:</span> 15.34 million; agriculture n.a., ind<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwU84mOrtI/AAAAAAAAAFg/dWI1SJiC2Tc/s1600-h/mendoza_argentina.jpg"></a>ustry n.a., services n.a. </div><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Industries:</strong></span> food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Natural resources:</span> fertile plains of the pampas, lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron ore, manganese, petroleum, uranium.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Exports:</span> $40 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): edible oils, fuels and energy, cereals, feed, motor vehicles. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Imports:</span> $28.8 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): machinery and equipment, motor vehicles, chemicals, metal manufactures, plastics.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Major trading partners:</span> Brazil, Chile, U.S., China, Spain, Germany (2004).<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwVxYmOruI/AAAAAAAAAFo/o1pk4kOjzb0/s1600-h/normal_argentina_cataratas-del-iguaz-_1368_0.jpg"></a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JCMroOwKI/AAAAAAAAAJA/f0qrGM4f-2c/s1600-h/argentina1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134739310793113762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0JCMroOwKI/AAAAAAAAAJA/f0qrGM4f-2c/s400/argentina1.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Communications:</strong></span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">Telephones:</span> main lines in use 8.7 million (2004); <span style="color:#ff0000;">mobile cellular:</span> 13,512,400 (2004). <span style="color:#ff0000;">Radio broadcast stations:</span> AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM n.a. (probably more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998). <span style="color:#ff0000;">Television broadcast stations:</span> 42 (plus 444 repeaters) (1997). <span style="color:#ff0000;">Internet hosts:</span> 1,233,175 (2005). <span style="color:#ff0000;">Internet users:</span> 10 million (2005).<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwXP4mOrvI/AAAAAAAAAFw/oxfHOvT0KXk/s1600-h/monumento-bandera-argentina.jpg"></a><br /></div><div><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Transportation:<br /></strong></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Railways: total:</span> 34,091 km (167 km electrified) (2004). <a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnHboOwOI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nMxDnj0o4QU/s1600-h/monumento-bandera-argentina.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135061377505738978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnHboOwOI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nMxDnj0o4QU/s400/monumento-bandera-argentina.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Highways: total:</span> 229,144 km; <span style="color:#ff0000;">paved:</span> 68,809 km (including 734 km of expressways);<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">unpaved:</span> 160,335 km (2004). <span style="color:#ff0000;">Waterways:</span> 11,000 km (2005).<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Ports and harbors:</span> Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Concepcion del Uruguay, La Plata, Punta Colorada, Rosario, San Lorenzo-San Martin, San Nicolas.<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Airports:</span> 1,334 (2004 est.).<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>International disputes:</strong><br /></span><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RvwReImOrpI/AAAAAAAAAFA/cuv9CGckxUU/s1600-h/argentina1.jpg"></a>Argentina contin<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnRroOwPI/AAAAAAAAAJk/KRP6wFR6uHM/s1600-h/normal_argentina_cataratas-del-iguaz-_1368_0.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135061553599398130" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnRroOwPI/AAAAAAAAAJk/KRP6wFR6uHM/s400/normal_argentina_cataratas-del-iguaz-_1368_0.jpg" border="0" /></a>ues to assert its claims to the UK-administered Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in its constitution, forcibly occupying the Falklands in 1982, but in 1995 agreed no longer to seek settlement by force; territorial claim in Antarctica partially overlaps UK and Chilean claims (see Antarctic disputes); unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute between Brazil and Uruguay over Braziliera Island in the Quarai/Cuareim River leaves the tripoint with Argentina in question.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Geography:</strong></span><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/RwA73e43-kI/AAAAAAAAAGM/TbbfFpsbXfc/s1600-h/argentina.JPG"></a><br />Second in South America only to Brazil in size and population, Argentina is a plain,<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnZboOwQI/AAAAAAAAAJs/u66V_XkqM1o/s1600-h/argentina.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135061686743384322" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sVwYvsah77I/R0NnZboOwQI/AAAAAAAAAJs/u66V_XkqM1o/s400/argentina.jpg" border="0" /></a> rising from the Atlantic to the Chilean border and the towering Andes peaks. Aconcagua (22,834 ft, 6,960 m) is the highest peak in the world outside Asia. Argentina is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay on the north, and by Uruguay and Brazil on the east. The northern area is the swampy and partly wooded Gran Chaco, bordering on Bolivia and Paraguay. South of that are the rolling, fertile Pampas, which are rich in agriculture and sheep- and cattle-grazing and support most of the population. Next southward is Patagonia, a region of cool, arid steppes with some wooded and fertile sections.<br /><br />BIBLIOGRAPHY: <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107288.html">http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107288.html</a> <a href="http://www.geographia.com/argentina/history.htm">http://www.geographia.com/argentina/history.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#006600;">LADY JOHANNA CUERVO VEGA-200520988-BASIC 2-MEDICINE</span></div></div></div>Lady Cuervohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17630409642954786183noreply@blogger.com0