colophon PANAMA-PACIFIC-EXPOSITION SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 Copyrighted, 1915, by The Argentine Commission of the Panama-Pacific-Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 —— All Rights Reserved Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York A RGENTINE N ATIONAL C OMMISSION PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, SAN FRANCISCO, 1915 ——— President DR. ANGEL GALLARDO Vice-Presidents MR. AGUSTIN DE ELIA DR. FRANCISCO A. BARROETAVEÑA Treasurer MR. ELISEO F. CANAVERI Members ENGINEER HORACIO ANASAGASTI DR. ABEL BENGOLEA DR. C

In order to add clearness to the brief description of the Argentine Republic presented in this little work, it has been thought desirable to depart from the traditional method of submitting a mass of statistical and historic matter and, instead, to furnish a rapid, though comprehensive, survey of the main features of interest, such as will at once convey to the reader the actual situation and potentialities of the "Land of the Silver River." For the fulfilment of this purpose, it has been necess

SOME OF ITS PHYSICAL FEATURES The evolution of the Argentine Republic of to-day from the position of an obscure Spanish dependency laboring under the disabilities of colonial government, into one of the great countries of the world whose watchwords are "progress" and "freedom," may be said to date from May 25, 1810, when the people of Buenos Aires declared their independence and established the United Provinces of the River Plate. From that date forward, until May 25, 1853, when the Federal Cons