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Also, I'm wondering: If Uruguay were an Argentine province for real (i.e. in an official sense), what impact would that have had on the planning or construction of the bridge? Would it have made construction of such a bridge somewhat more possible, or proposed somewhat earlier than in real life...

So I'm just wondering also, while we're on this subject: Why have projects like the Rosario-Victoria and Zarate-Brazo Largo bridges (as well as those linking Argentina and Uruguay over the Uruguay River) been completed but not the Buenos Aires-Colonia one - because the other bridges are shorter...

From what I understand, there have been proposals and studies for a bridge linking the Buenos Aires metropolitan area with the area in Uruguay right around Colonia in order to facilitate trade within the Mercosur region, but such a bridge has not been built yet. Is it not built yet because of...

In Argentina and Uruguay, do people use 'hispanohablante' or 'hispanoparlante' more? Or for that matter, 'castellanohablante' or 'castellanoparlante' more?

I guess, then, that even though the 1995 move was, according to Wikipedia, "advertised as a federalist move from the government", the national government had unitary tendencies in mind despite the federal veneer?

Why did Argentine license plates become centralized in 1972 (after having been issued by municipalities and/or provinces since the early 1900s)? And why has there been no letter indicating one province or another since 1995 the way it had been since 1972? I know that in countries like the US...

Another question yet: Do people from Buenos Aires go either to the Costa Atlantica resorts or to the Uruguayan resorts, while people from Montevideo go overwhelmingly to the Uruguayan resorts?

That's true in terms of temperatures, so that winter temperatures are high relative to their latitudes. That still means, though, that places like London and Paris have highs of 5-6C and lows of 1-2C in the winter, which is considerably below places like the Rio de la Plata and SE Australia in...

I've just figured out that unlike in many parts of North America or Europe, the summers are harsher than the winters in many parts of South America. For example, whereas in northern North America and northern Europe winters are bitterly cold or utterly sunless (or both) and summers can get hot...

What you were just describing - are you saying that it applies to places like Miramar, Pinamar, Necochea, San Clemente del Tuyu, and other places along the Atlantic Coast of Buenos Aires province more than to Punta del Este, Piriapolis, Jose Ignacio, and other Uruguayan beach towns or to...

I'm not talking about northern Brazil here - I'm only talking about southern Brazil along with Uruguay and Argentina.

Do I understand that in various beach resort towns such as Miramar or Mar del Plata (in the Costa Atlantica of Buenos Aires province), Punta del Este or others on the Uruguayan coast, and Balneario Camboriu (on the coast of southern Brazil), there are a number of retirees living there especially...

Is it fair to say that if you had to rank the coasts from the worst to the best, the Argentine coast (inc. Mar del Plata) is the worst, the Uruguayan coast is better, and the southern Brazilian coast (e.g. Floripa) is even better than the other two?

Each event can have multiple outcomes, so that one outcome results in the world as it is, and the outcomes result in world that could have been. It's a matter of randomness. So, in this world, Argentine culture is different from Anglo culture, but in another world, Argentine culture (or a good...

Put it this way: It's more an aborted First World country than actually a Third World country. And Argentina is considered by international organizations as a developing country.

I love geography/travel, and that includes anglophone and Latin American countries. In terms of Argentina and environs, I feel that there's a missing link in terms of Latin America not having a country that's wealthier per capita by far than any other country in a developing region the way that...

The thing is that I've been obsessed for the past bunch of years with how Argentina and the surrounding region would be different had Argentina fulfilled its economic potential (the best way, in my opinion, being that the British take over the country). I've even made a website about it, and...

Just wondering whether Punta del Este would have superseded Mar del Plata for wealthy Argentines even without Peron, though more gradually and maybe in a different way?

But I'm sure that places like Florianopolis and Balneario Camboriu are a lot less problematic than Rio or Sao Paulo, right?

So it sounds like the Argentines (particularly rich and famous ones) treat Punta del Este as a kinda-sorta Miami, though much closer to home, in terms of laundering their money? And so the fact that Punta del Este continues to be a flashy tourist destination (as opposed to just any beach...