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Argentina forms the eastern half of South America's long, tapering tail. Its topography is affected by both latitude and altitude, and is accordingly varied. The country can be divided into four major physiographic provinces: the Andes to the west (with arid basins, grape-filled foothills, glacial mountains and the Lake District), the fertile lowland north (with subtropical rainforests), the central Pampas (a flat mix of humid and dry expanses) and Patagonia (a combination of pastoral steppes and glacial regions).
The diversity of Argentina's landscape from north to south, east and west preserves unique thorn forests, virgin rainforests, flowering cacti, extensive forests of araucarias (monkey-puzzle trees) and southern beech. These are protected and managed within the country's extensive national park setup.
More than twenty national parks preserve large areas of these varied environments and protect wildlife (much of it unique) such as the caiman (or yacaré), puma, guanaco (a lowland relative of the upper-Andean llama), rhea (similar to an ostrich), Andean condor, flamingo, various marine mammals such as sea lions, elephant seals and whales, and unusual seabirds such as Magellanic penguins.
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