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Argentina is a country in South America, situated between the Andes peaks in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. The capital of Argentina is Buenos-Aires.

The name Argentina derives from the Latin argentum (silver). The first Spanish conquistadors called the River Plate the Río de la Plata ("River of Silver"). Indigenous people gave silver gifts to the survivors of the shipwrecked expedition, who were led by Juan Díaz de Solís. The legend of Sierra del Plata — a mountain rich in silver — reached Spain around 1524. The name Argentina was first used in Ruy Díaz de Guzmán's 1612 book Historia del descubrimiento, población, y conquista del Río de la Plata (History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the Río de la Plata), naming the territory Tierra Argentina (Land of Silver).

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