Bolivia salt flats

Salta and Bolivia

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May 9th 2010
Salta la linda, meaning Salta the beuatiful. Named this I suppose because of the lovely colonial buildings and plazas and the way it is surrounded by the lush foothills of the Andes. Salta is part of what was the Southern most reaches of the expansionist Inca Empire about 500 years ago, before it was toppled by the Spanish. It is also home to some of the most interesting archealogical museams in A ... read more

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more