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Cerro Torre Physical map of the Southern and Central Andes and Patagonia, highlighting elevation with color gradients from lowlands to high mountain peaks. The Andes mountain range runs along the western edge of South America through Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and parts of Peru, with major peaks and volcanoes labeled. Key cities, rivers, lakes, and international boundaries are marked, and a locator map in the corner shows the region's position in South America. Map of South America highlighting the Patagonian Desert in orange, located primarily in southern Argentina with a small portion extending into Chile. The desert region is shown in the southern part of the continent, bordered by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Perito Moreno glacier Patagonian cavy Guanacos Patagonia: cattle drive Wide view of Perito Moreno Glacier flowing into a lake, surrounded by snow-capped mountains in Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina. Two guanacos stand on grassy plains near a blue river, with snow-capped mountains of the Andes in the background in Patagonia, southern Argentina.
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Literature in English for Patagonia is scarce. Discussions can be found in the relevant sections of Herbert Wilhelmy and Wilhelm Rohmeder, Die La Plata Länder: Argentinien, Paraguay, Uruguay (1963); and Preston E. James, Latin America, 4th ed. (1969); and in Philip Caraman, The Lost Paradise: An Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607–1768 (1975); and Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia (1977, reprinted 1988).

Kempton E. Webb

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Official Tourism Site of Patagonia, Argentina. Jul 24, 2026
Add new Web site: Catholic Online - Patagonia, Argentina. Oct 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Tourism Site of Patagonia, Argentina. May 09, 2023
Removed media. Aug 16, 2022
Removed media. Jul 30, 2021
Media revised. Nov 11, 2020
Added a photograph of Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier. Mar 09, 2018
Noted that the Patagonian coast serves as the nesting grounds for the Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus). "Chagas' disease" changed to "Chagas disease." Feb 16, 2018
Added map that depicts the extent of the Patagonian Desert on South America. Sep 18, 2017
Media added. Sep 26, 2016
Added information about Valdés Peninsula. Sep 26, 2016
Added video. Nov 26, 2014
Add new Web site: Lonely Planet - Patagonia, Argentina. Apr 26, 2013
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Patagonia, Argentina. Apr 26, 2013
Article revised and updated. Feb 09, 2007
Bibliography revised. Feb 09, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 28, 1999
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