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Afro-Argentines, are Argentines who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry.^[1]

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African diaspora in Argentina
Argentine people of African descent
Ethnic groups in Argentina

Acculturation

Acculturation is a process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from the balancing of two cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of the society.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various nations of the Caribbean, Latin America and the Southern United States.

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African immigration to Latin America

African immigrants to Latin America include citizens and residents of countries in Latin America who were born in, or with recent ancestors from Africa.

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector.

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Afro-Uruguayans

Afro-Uruguayans are Uruguayans of predominantly African descent.

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Afro–Latin Americans

Afro–Latin Americans or Black Latin Americans (sometimes Afro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of full or mainly sub-Saharan African ancestry.

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Alejandro de los Santos

Alejandro Nicolás de los Santos (17 May 1902 — 16 February 1982) was an Argentine footballer who played as a forward for San Lorenzo, Dock Sud, El Porvenir, Huracán and Argentina.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Angolan Argentines

Angolan Argentines are Argentine people of Angolan descent or an Angolan naturalised Argentinian. Afro-Argentines and Angolan Argentines are ethnic groups in Argentina.

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Antonio Gonzaga

Antonio Gonzaga (1875, date of death unknown), also known as El Negro Gonzaga, was an Argentine chef and cookbook writer.

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Antonio Ruiz (soldier)

Antonio Ruiz (died 6 February 1824) was an Argentine soldier and national hero of Argentina.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Argentine Army

The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina.

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Argentine Civil Wars

The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place through the territories of Argentina from 1814 to 1853.

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Argentine Northwest

The Argentine Northwest (Noroeste Argentino) is a geographic and historical region of Argentina composed of the provinces of Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

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Argentine tango

Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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Argentine War of Independence

The Argentine War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de Argentina) was a secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli, Martin Miguel de Guemes and José de San Martín against royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown.

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Argentines

Argentines are the people identified with the country of Argentina. Afro-Argentines and Argentines are ethnic groups in Argentina.

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Army of the North

The Army of the North (Ejército del Norte), contemporaneously called Army of Peru (Ejército del Perú), was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence.

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Arturo Rodríguez (boxer)

Arturo Jaime Rodríguez Jurado (nicknamed El Mono) (27 May 1907 – 22 November 1982) was an Argentine boxer and rugby union player.

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Asiento de Negros

The Asiento de Negros was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved Africans to colonies in the Spanish Americas.

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Assembly of the Year XIII

The Assembly of Year XIII (Asamblea del Año XIII) was a meeting called by the Second Triumvirate governing the young republic of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, parts of Brazil and Bolivia) on October 1812.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Bantu languages

The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.

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Barbarian

A barbarian is a person or tribe of people that is perceived to be primitive, savage and warlike.

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Batallón de Pardos y Morenos

Batallón de Pardos y Morenos was an Argentine military unit formed with soldiers of African and indigenous descent.

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Bernardino Rivadavia

Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827.

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Bernardo de Monteagudo

Bernardo de Monteagudo (1789–1825) was a political activist and revolutionary.

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Bittereinder

The Bittereinders or irreconcilables were a faction of Boer guerrilla fighters, resisting the forces of the British Empire in the later stages of the Second Boer War (1899–1902).

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Blanqueamiento

Blanqueamiento in Spanish, or branqueamento in Portuguese (both meaning whitening), is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries in the Americas and Oceania to "improve the race" (mejorar la raza) towards a supposed ideal of whiteness.

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Boers

Boers (Boere are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controlled Dutch Cape Colony, but the United Kingdom incorporated it into the British Empire in 1806.

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British invasions of the River Plate

The British invasions of the River Plate were two unsuccessful British attempts to seize control of the Spanish colony of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located around the Río de la Plata in South America – in present-day Argentina and Uruguay.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Candombe

Candombe is a style of music and dance that originated in Uruguay among the descendants of liberated African slaves.

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Cannon fodder

Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Cape Verdean Argentines

Cape Verdean Argentines are Argentine residents whose ancestry originated in Cape Verde. Afro-Argentines and Cape Verdean Argentines are African diaspora in Argentina and ethnic groups in Argentina.

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Caras y Caretas (Argentina)

Caras y Caretas is a weekly magazine of Argentina published from 1898 to 1941 in its first period of existence.

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Carlos García López

Carlos Alberto García López (9 September 1958 – 27 September 2014), better known as El Negro García López, was an Argentine guitarist and rock and roll musician, and one of the most influential instrumentalists of Argentine rock.

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Carlos Posadas

Carlos Posadas (1874–1918) was a musician dedicated to Argentine tango in the 19th century.

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Casimiro Alcorta

Casimiro Alcorta (1840–1913) was a musician of Argentina, considered one of the fathers of tango music.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cayetano Alberto Silva

Cayetano Alberto Silva (August 7, 1868 — January 12, 1920) was an Uruguayan musician, naturalized Argentine, and author; his work includes the San Lorenzo march, the official march of the Argentine army.

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Córdoba, Argentina

Córdoba is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires.

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Celestino Barcala

Celestino Barcala, the warrior son of Independence Colonel Lorenzo Barcala, was a key player on the Argentine civil wars in the north-west, reaching the rank of major national army.

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Chacarera

The Chacarera is a dance and music that originated in Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

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Chamber of Deputies of Salta

The Chamber of Deputies of Salta Province (Cámara de Diputados de la Provincia de Salta) is the lower house of the Legislature of Salta Province, one of Argentina's 23 provinces.

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Chubut Province

Chubut (Provincia del Chubut,; Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.

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Ciudad Evita

Ciudad Evita is a city in the partido of La Matanza in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located 20 kilometers (13 mi) from Downtown Buenos Aires within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area.

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Clemente Rodríguez

Clemente Juan Rodríguez (born 31 July 1981) is an Argentine former professional footballer.

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Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.

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Conquest of the Desert

The Conquest of the Desert (Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establishing dominance over Patagonia, inhabited primarily by indigenous peoples.

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Corrientes

Corrientes (Guaraní: Taragui, literally: "Currents") is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, about from Buenos Aires and from Posadas, on National Route 12.

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Corrientes Province

Corrientes (‘currents’ or ‘streams’; Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes (Provincia de Corrientes; Taragui Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region.

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Cristian Medina

Cristian Nicolás Medina (born 1 June 2002) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Boca Juniors.

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Cristian Tissone

Cristian Hernán Tissone (born 8 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Mirandela as a centre-back.

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Cuarteto

Cuarteto (quartet), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.

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Culture of Argentina

The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups.

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David Leiva

Jesús David Battaglia Leiva (born 19 July 1978), better known as David Leiva, is an Argentine cumbia singer and politician, currently serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Salta representing the Capital Department.

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Héctor David Martínez (born 21 January 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami CF, on loan fromRiver Plate.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Demographics of Argentina

This is a demography of Argentina including population density, ethnicity, economic status and other aspects of the population.

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Diego Alonso Gómez

Diego Alonso Gómez (born 10 March 1972) is an Argentine actor, mostly known for his roles in telenovelas.

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Diego Maradona

Diego Armando Maradona (30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager.

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Dominga Lucía Molina

Dominga Lucía Molina Sández (December 13, 1949-) is an Afro-Argentine activist.

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Domingo Sosa

Colonel Domingo Sosa (1788 – May 1866) was an Argentine soldier who became an army colonel and took part in the wars of independence and in the Argentine civil war.

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Emanuel Ntaka

Emanuel Ntaka (born 12 December 1977) is an Argentine singer, songwriter and activist.

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Encomienda

The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.

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Enrique Maciel

Enrique Maciel (July 13, 1897 – January 24, 1962) was a versatile and sensitive composer, lyricist, and harmonium, piano, bandoneon and guitar performer.

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Erik Thomas (basketball)

Erik Thomas (born January 16, 1995) is an Argentine basketball player for Astros de Jalisco of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP).

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Erika Mercado

Erika Andreina Mercado Chávez (born 27 February 1992), known as Erika Mercado, is a volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for the Emirati club Sharjah Women's.

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Ethnic groups of Argentina

Argentina has a racially and ethnically diverse population. Afro-Argentines and ethnic groups of Argentina are ethnic groups in Argentina.

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Eurocentrism

Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European colonization of the Americas

During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.

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Ewe people

The Ewe people (Eʋeawó, lit. "Ewe people"; or Mono Kple Amu (Volta) Tɔ́sisiwo Dome, lit. "Between the Rivers Mono and Volta"; Eʋenyígbá Eweland) are a Gbe-speaking ethnic group.

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Extensive farming

Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

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Felipa Larrea

Felipa Larrea de Larrea (born 1 May 181018 January 1910) was an Afro-Argentine woman, widely considered to be the last surviving African slave from the colonial period in Argentina.

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Fernando Tissone

Fernando Damián Tissone Rodrigues (born 24 July 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Eccellenza club Sangiustese.

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Fidel Nadal

Fidel Nadal (born Fidel Ernesto Nadal on October 4, 1965) is an Afro-Argentinian Reggae musician, songwriter and pioneer of Argentine Reggae and the underground punk/hardcore movement of Argentina.

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First Triumvirate (Argentina)

The First Triumvirate (Primer Triunvirato) was the executive body of government that replaced the Junta Grande in the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (modern-day Argentina).

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Freedom of wombs

Free womb laws (Libertad de vientres, Lei do Ventre Livre), also referred to as free birth or the law of wombs, was a 19th century judicial concept in several Latin American countries, that declared that all wombs bore free children.

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Gabino Ezeiza

Gabino Ezeiza, nicknamed Negro on Yrigoyen.com.ar (February 3, 1858 – October 12, 1916), was an Argentine musician.

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Gaucho

A gaucho or gaúcho is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly.

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Gene pool

The gene pool is the set of all genes, or genetic information, in any population, usually of a particular species.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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Greater Buenos Aires

Greater Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 partidos (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires.

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Grenadier

A grenadier (derived from the word grenade) was historically an assault-specialist soldier who threw hand grenades in siege operation battles.

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Guaraní people

The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.

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Guarani language

Guarani, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Guillermo Lovell

Guillermo José Lovell (January 14, 1918 – October 25, 1967) was an Argentine heavyweight boxer.

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Héctor Baley

Héctor Rodolfo Baley (born 16 November 1950 in Bahía Blanca) is an Argentine former professional football goalkeeper.

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Higinio Cazón

Higinio D. Cazón (1866–1914) was an Argentine musician, songwriter and payador.

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Horacio Salgán

Horacio Adolfo Salgán (June 15, 1916 – August 19, 2016) was an Argentine tango musician.

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Immigration to Argentina

The history of immigration to Argentina can be divided into several major stages.

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Indigenous peoples in Argentina

Argentina has 35 indigenous people groups (often referred to as Argentine Amerindians or Native Argentines) officially recognized by the national government. Afro-Argentines and indigenous peoples in Argentina are ethnic groups in Argentina.

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Infant mortality

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.

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James Parker (handballer)

James Lewis Parker (born 9 June 1994) is an Argentine handball player for Zamalek SC Handball and the Argentina national team.

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Joana Bolling

Joana Bolling (born 6 April 1995) is an Argentine handball player who plays as a left wing for Spanish club Elche Mustang and the Argentina women's national team.

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José A. Ferreyra

José A(gustín) Ferreyra (28 August 1889 – 29 January 1943), popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" (Black Ferreyra, due to his partially African ancestry), was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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José Hernández (writer)

José Hernández (born José Rafael Hernández y Pueyrredón; 10 November 1834 in Chacras del Perdriel – 21 October 1886 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro.

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José María Morales

Colonel José María Morales (August 14, 1818 – October 23, 1894) was a military officer and Afro-Argentine legislator who fought in the Argentine civil war and the Paraguayan War.

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José Ramos Delgado

José Manuel Ramos Delgado (25 August 1935 – 3 December 2010) was an Argentine footballer and manager.

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Juan Bautista Cabral

Juan Bautista Cabral (24 June 1789 – 3 February 1813) was an Argentine soldier, of Zambo origin, of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers who died in the Battle of San Lorenzo, while he was aiding then Colonel Don José de San Martín, whose horse had fallen to enemy fire.

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Juan Manuel de Rosas

Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Kongo people

The Kongo people (Bisi Kongo., EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo.

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La Boca

La Boca ("the Mouth", probably of the Matanza River) is a neighborhood (barrio) of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.

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La Mona Jiménez

Juan Carlos Jiménez Rufino (born 11 January 1951), known as La Mona Jiménez, is a cuarteto singer and songwriter, heralded as one of the most prominent performers of the genre.

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La Rioja, Argentina

La Rioja (local pronunciation), founded as City of All Saints of New Rioja (in spanish: Ciudad de Todos los Santos de Nueva Rioja), is the capital and largest city of La Rioja Province, Argentina, located in the east of the province.

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Lamellophone

A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.

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Laws of the Indies

The Laws of the Indies (Leyes de las Indias) are the entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the American and the Asian possessions of its empire.

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Lee Aaliya

Lee Abraham Aaliya (born November 8, 2004) is an Argentine professional basketball player currently playing for Palmer Basket Mallorca, in the Spanish LEB Plata league, on loan from UCAM Murcia CB.

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List of ethnic groups of Africa

The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Lorenzo Barcala

Lorenzo Barcala (1793 in Mendoza, Argentina – 1835 in Mendoza, August), was an Argentine military commander who participated in the Argentine civil wars on the side of the Unitarian Party, and one of the few black soldiers to reach the rank of colonel in that country.

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Manuel Armoa

Manuel Armoa Morel (born 1 December 2002) is an Argentine professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for Indykpol AZS Olsztyn and the Argentina national team.

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Manuel G. Posadas

Manuel G. Posadas (18 October 1841 – 13 March 1897) was an Afro-Argentine musician, journalist and Argentine soldier in the nineteenth century.

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Manuel Posadas

Manuel L. Posadas (1860-1916) was a leading Afro-Argentine musician from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

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María Fernanda Silva

María Fernanda Silva (born 20 December 1965) is an Argentine career diplomat, and the current ambassador of Argentina to the Holy See.

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María Remedios del Valle

María Remedios del Valle (ca. 1768–1847) also known as the "Madre de la Patria" (Mother of the Homeland) was an Afro-Argentine camp follower turned soldier who participated in the Argentine War of Independence.

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Marcos Martínez (actor)

Marcos Moreno Martínez (born 24 August 1977) is an Argentine actor and comedian, mostly active in stage and on television.

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Martín Fierro

Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández.

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Matías Presentado

Matías Isidoro Presentado (born 13 August 1992) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Los Andes as a centre-back.

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Mendoza, Argentina

Mendoza, officially the City of Mendoza (Ciudad de Mendoza), is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina.

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Merlo, Buenos Aires

Merlo is the head city of the eponymous partido of Merlo and seat of the municipal government, located in the Greater Buenos Aires urban area of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Middle Passage

The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

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Miguel Montuori

Miguel Ángel Montuori (24 September 1932 – 4 June 1998) was a footballer who played as a forward or attacking midfielder.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Milonga (music)

Milonga is a musical genre that originated in the Río de la Plata areas of Argentina, Uruguay, and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

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Ministry of Health (Argentina)

The Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Salud) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees, elaborates and coordinates the Argentine national state's public health policy.

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Monarchy of Spain

The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.

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Murga

Murga is a form of popular musical theatre performed in Argentina, Panama, Spain and Uruguay during the Carnival season.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), is a public research university in Mexico.

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National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism

The National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (Instituto Nacional contra la Discriminación, la Xenofobia y el Racismo, mostly known for its acronym INADI) is a state agency of the Government of Argentina (answerable to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights) which is charged with receiving complaints and pursuing charges against citizens accused of acts of discrimination or hatred.

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National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina

The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, mostly known for its acronym INDEC) is an Argentine decentralized public body that operates within the Ministry of Economy, which exercises the direction of all official statistical activities carried out in the country.

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New Laws

The New Laws (Spanish: Leyes Nuevas), also known as the New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians were issued on November 20, 1542, by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (King Charles I of Spain) and regard the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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Oscar Alemán

Oscar Marcelo Alemán (20 February 1909 – 14 October 1980) was an Argentine jazz multi instrumentalist, guitarist, singer, and dancer.

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Paraguayan War

The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870.

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Pardo

In the former Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, pardos (feminine pardas) are triracial descendants of Southern Europeans, Indigenous Americans and West Africans.

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Payada

The payada is a folk music tradition native to Argentina, Uruguay, southern Brasil, and south Paraguay as part of the ''Gaucho'' culture and literature.

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Página 12

Página 12 (sometimes stylised as Pagina/12, Pagina|12 or Pagina12) is a newspaper published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Pocha Lamadrid

María Magdalena "Pocha" Lamadrid (17 April 1945 – 27 September 2021) was an Afro-Argentine activist and campaigner.

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Porteño

In Spanish, the term (feminine: Porteña) means "port city person".

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Quimbanda

Quimbanda, also spelled Kimbanda, is an Afro-Brazilian religion practiced primarily in the urban city centers of Brazil.

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Radical Civic Union

The Radical Civic Union (Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a centrist and liberal political party in Argentina.

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Ramón Carrillo

Ramón Carrillo (7 March 1906 – 20 December 1956) was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, physician, academic, public health advocate, and from 1949 to 1954 the nation's first Minister of Public Health.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata, also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda.

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Río Negro Province

Río Negro (Black River) is a province of Argentina, located in northern Patagonia.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Rita Montero

Rita Lucía Montero (4 May 1928 – 28 June 2013) was an Argentine theatre, cinema and television actress and singer.

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Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe.

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Rosendo Mendizábal

Anselmo Rosendo Cayetano Mendizábal (21 April 186830 June 1913) was an Argentine composer and pianist, and an early pioneer of the tango.

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Salminus brasiliensis

Salminus brasiliensis (dourado, dorado, golden dorado, river tiger or jaw characin) is a large, predatory characiform freshwater fish found in central and east-central South America.

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Salta

Salta is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name.

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San Baltasar

San Baltasar, King Baltasar Cambá or San Baltazar is a folk saint of African origin, widely venerated in the coastal area of Argentina in the province of Corrientes, northeast of Santa Fe and east of Chaco and Formosa.

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San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato.

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San Juan, Argentina

San Juan is the capital and largest city of the Argentine province of San Juan in the Cuyo region, located in the Tulúm Valley, west of the San Juan River, at above mean sea level, with a population of around 112,000 as per the (over 500,000 in the metropolitan area).

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San Lorenzo march

"San Lorenzo" is an Argentine military march first composed instrumentally in 1901 by Cayetano Alberto Silva, whose lyrics by Carlos Javier Benielli were later added in 1907.

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San Luis, Argentina

San Luis is the capital city of San Luis Province in the Cuyo region of Argentina.

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San Miguel de Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucumán, usually called simply Tucumán, is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires.

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San Salvador de Jujuy

San Salvador de Jujuy, commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina.

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San Telmo, Buenos Aires

San Telmo ("Saint Pedro González Telmo") is the oldest barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero (Spanish for Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon) is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina.

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Santiago Lovell

Santiago Alberto Lovell (23 April 1912–17 March 1966), known as Alberto Lovell, was an Argentine heavyweight boxer, who won the gold medal in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 1932.

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Sarmiento, Chubut

Sarmiento is a town in the province of Chubut, Argentina.

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School for International Training

The School for International Training, widely known by its initials SIT, is a private non-profit regionally-accredited institution headquartered in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Slave ship

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves.

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Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Sthefany Thomas

Sthefany Thomas Díaz (born 4 May 1989) is an Argentine basketball player who plays as a forward.

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Stilts

Stilts are poles, posts or pillars that allow a person or structure to stand at a height above the ground.

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Stowaway

A stowaway or clandestine traveller is a person who secretly boards a vehicle, such as a ship, an aircraft, a train, cargo truck or bus.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Tango music

Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European and African immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").

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Télam

Télam (an acronym for "Telenoticiosa Americana") was an Argentine government-ran national news agency founded in 1945 by then Secretary of Labor Juan Perón on La Nación, 5 Mar 2024 during the presidency of Edelmiro Julián Farrell.

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Tomás Platero IV

Tomás Braulio Platero IV (1857 – 1925) was an Argentine lawyer, notary, and one of the founders of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), Argentina's oldest existing political party, and among the most prominent Afro Argentine public figures of his time.

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University of Barcelona

The University of Barcelona (official name in Universitat de Barcelona, UB) is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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University of Valle

The University of Valle (Universidad del Valle), also called Univalle, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

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Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

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Valparaíso

Valparaíso is a major city, commune, seaport and naval base facility in Valparaíso Region, Chile.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Wilson Severino

Wilson del Valle Severino (born February 25, 1980) is an Argentine former footballer.

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Yellow fever in Buenos Aires

The Yellow fever in Buenos Aires was a series of epidemics that took place in 1852, 1858, 1870 and 1871, the latter being a disaster that killed about 8% of Porteños: in a city where the daily death rate was less than 20, there were days that killed more than 500 people.

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.

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Zenón Rolón

Zenón Rolón (25 June 1856 – 13 May 1902) was an Afro Argentine musician and composer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Argentines

Also known as African Argentine, Afro Argentine, Afro Argentinean, Afro-Argentine, Afro-Argentinians, Black Argentine, Black Argentinean, Black Argentineans, Black Argentines, Black people in Argentina, Blacks in Argentina, List of Afro-Argentines.

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