KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -The City of Buenos Aires is the capital of the Argentine Republic, located in the Southern Hemisphere of the American continent, at 34º 36’ S and 58º 26’ W.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cities: Capital–Buenos Aires (city: 3 million; metropolitan area: 12 million). Terrain: Andes mountains and foothills in west. Aconcagua, (7, 021 m; 23, 034 ft) is highest peak in the Western Hemisphere; remainder of country is lowland; central region characterized by vast grassy plains (pampas).

Detailed explanation-3: -The original harbour had become silted up, and the larger boats that now called at the port had to anchor offshore. But the economic success of the region was undeniable, and in 1776, as part of the Bourbon monarchy’s broad reform effort, Buenos Aires was named the capital of the new Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Detailed explanation-4: -The heritage cluster of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century of the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata is representative of the construction of the integral and monumental system of two capital cities, one being national and the other provincial.