Pampa is a word of Quechua origin that means "treeless plain".
honoring his name, most of its surface is precisely represented by a flat region of fertile land, free of significant trees, where the figure of the gaucho is still present in the custom inherited from the country tradition.
The geographic region of the Pampa Argentina is the agricultural heartland and the home of that symbol of romantic nationalism, that is the gaucho.
Covering the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and major parts including Santa Fe and Cordoba, and its surroundings also include over the flat plains to rolling hills covered with forests, grasslands and salt lakes covered with flamingos.
E 'but no doubt that for those coming to visit these areas, is the memory of impressive breadth that affects more intensely the memory of the traveler: you are traveling for miles, surrounded by a disarming extension of the horizon accompanied only by changing the Argentine sky.
vast fields of alfalfa, sorghum, wheat, corn or sunflower swaying in the wind blown by an endless blue sky, crossed by groups of clouds driven by strong current weather at high altitude.
To make the landscape even more magical the encounter with some gauchos on horseback, trotting proud with her hat and classic woolen poncho.
Under the name indicates a vast Pampas region extending south and west of the line marked by the Paraná and Río de la Plata to the Colorado, between the Andes and the sea. It is a land flat, seemingly limitless, boundless and bare.
Commonly there are two distinct parts: the eastern Pampa , covering the provinces of Buenos Aires (except the southern tip), the north-western province of La Pampa, the southern section of the province of Santa Fe and the eastern sector of the province of Cordoba, La Pampa western, extending north-west, wedged between the Rio Salado to the east, relief of the Puna to the north and the mountain range to the west.
eastern La Pampa, also called pampa Humedo for the most rainfall against the western pampa seca, comprising approximately one sixth of Argentina and is the most vital part of the country.
It looks like a great lowland formed by a layer of loess yellowish, fine, interspersed with fluvial deposits and volcanic ash, covered by a layer on the surface, often 20-30 cm of black soil, very fertile. Sea level rises imperceptibly toward the west, reaching up to a hundred meters. Gentle undulations will create numerous basins, collecting lakes and ponds and prevent the drainage of water to the sea.
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