Argentina has almost 5,000 km of coastline but only 2,3 million people, or 5% of the population lives less than 100 km away from the sea.
Can you think of any other countries where this happens too?
Argentina has almost 5,000 km of coastline but only 2,3 million people...
Justin Bailey
Joseph Richardson
BUT, Argentina has most people living next to a river that has access to the ocean.
Most human settlements are on the coast or next to rivers.
Robert Davis
Not the same distances, but we border both oceans and the majority of our population live inland and in mountains.
Noah Rivera
Because our 'beaches' are terrible, the water is bad and the dessert near the shorelines are shit?
Joseph Gutierrez
we have 7,314 km and you are never +50 km away from the coast
Jason Scott
For us it's the opposite
>Did you know more than 90% of our population lives within 100km of the coast
10% gang
Lucas Kelly
i doubt that's true considering how many people live in buenos aires
Easton Walker
Water isn't bad in Patagonia, it's only a problem for Buenos Aires beaches
Isaac Torres
Our population is mostly along the coast and in the southwest, where the climate is more like central Europe. There are only a handful of notable settlements in the east, otherwise the entire eastern half is nearly empty
Aaron Richardson
Buenos Aires City is 163 km away from the sea
Eventhough the province of Buenos Aires has around 15 million people, only 10% live in coastal areas. In fact there is only one coastal city with more than 500,000 people in all of Argentina, Mar del Plata
Jayden Hernandez
What
Tyler Watson
This doesn't really have anything to do with this, but I have this fascination with the natives in Argentina and that general region. Like when you consider how humans spread around the world, the southern tip of Argentina was pretty much the last place that they reached. At some point they kinda just reached the end and then they stopped there
Parker Butler
That's not the sea, it's a fucking river
Hunter Jackson
We do, my grandpa was in the military and after became a geological engineer and said they would drop him off in the woods in northern manitoba, quebec and there was land that has never been touched by humans. He also had stories about windegos and paranormal creatures in the far woods
Daniel Carter
eeeh
Joshua Reed
A big ugly river with brown water that smells like shit
Nathan Nelson
that's a fjord
Angel Gonzalez
I guess it depends on how you look at it, I would consider it to be at the coast, sort of. That feels more like a bay than a river, but then again 100 kilometres is pretty long for a bay. That's actually a pretty interesting location
Jaxon Russell
LOL it's shaped like cock and balls
Juan Taylor
How can it be a bay if it has freshwater?
Cameron Moore
Argentina genocided them because Argentina was white.
>Like when you consider how humans spread around the world, the southern tip of Argentina was pretty much the last place that they reached.
What about Polynesians and Malagasy?
Michael Gonzalez
Russia is even less
Asher Rogers
I can’t unsee it
Lincoln Howard
I mean, if the theory that amerindians crossed the Bering Strait to get to the Americas is true, than argentine indios had the longest walk ever.
Xavier Bell
I'm looking at a Wikipedia article about bays, and they don't specify that it needs to be salt water. They say "A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay."
It doesn't really strike me as a river since it's so wide compared to how long it is. It looks more like there are a bunch of small rivers that end in the bay and then it eventually turns into the ocean. I didn't expect to be trying to define the geography of Argentina at 4.30 in the morning, but here we are
Gabriel Butler
I remember when a stupid whale appeared in the river and almost died
Jayden Rogers
It's not a river. It's an estuary
Zachary Martinez
patagonia looks like the russian steppe
Tyler Allen
haha
BENIS aires :D:DDD
Adam Ward
Maybe but Polynesia and Madagascar were the last places humans settled
Lincoln Smith
Fucking stupid whale should have died holy shit
Joshua Torres
>At some point they kinda just reached the end and then they stopped there
Not really. Natives never stopped. Some natives reached Patagonia then went back north. They were nomads, constantly moving. You can see this in their languages and genetic history
Michael Morris
I guess Polynesia is another end point too, like New Zealand and all that. But the real question is, how did people end up on Easter Island? Even the Pitcairn islands are several hundreds of kilometres away, if they were making their way from the west
Hunter Bell
Patagonia is mostly a shithole with the exception of the parts near the mountains. Most overrated region of Argentina by far. It also has some very dangerous cities like Comodoro Rivadavia
Dylan Sanders
>Because our 'beaches' are terrible
what?
it looks like paradise to me, especially with the lack of people and german tourists digging trenches
Jonathan Gray
The biggest Mexican cities are not on the coast, most people live in the center of the country
Mexico City
Guadalajara
Monterrey
Puebla
Toluca
Leon
Ciudad Juarez
Torreón
Queretaro
San Luis Potosi
Merida (kinda close to the coast)
Aguascalientes
Cuernavaca
*Acapulco (coast)
*Tampico (coast)
Chihuahua
Morelia
Saltillo
Veracruz
Villahermosa
Reynosa
Tuxtla Gutierrez
*Cancun (coast)
Colton Barnes
I'd say in this cunt only 20% of the people live within 100km of a coast. Most people live inland, and half of them die without ever been or seeing the ocean, it's sad
Wyatt Ward
>BA beaches:
Windy and shitty weather. Nice waves. Nice sand and surrounding environment. pretty overexploited for tourism.
>Patagonia beaches:
some really nice weather, some really cold weather. no waves. rocky beaches and exotic Flora and fauna, although desertic nonetheless. a lot of untapped potential with two or three big tourism spots
Levi Brooks
The water is very cold and not very blue
Landon Lewis
probably wind directions rather than distance.
são tomé right off the african coast was uninhabited before the portuguese showed up in the 15th century
it looks depressing but the mountains are cool
Wyatt Anderson
>You can see this in their languages and genetic history
Like
Carter Lopez
xD
Carter Brown
Buenos Aires is basically on the sea
Brayden Peterson
Perhaps, they just stumbled there or ancient Polynesians had a way of detecting far off land.. I also wonder why they never got to the Galapagos.
Jace Gonzalez
>probably wind directions rather than distance
It's still funny that some mad lads just went like hey, what about if we just start sailing into the ocean and see if we ever find anything. And at some point they had to have women with them too since they produced offspring. But I guess Europeans did the same thing eventually
Charles Young
The water is so cold in this fucking country, and this summer the sea was colder than ever
Juan Cook
Because most of the population lives along a river instead
Anthony Sullivan
What happens there?
>exotic Flora and fauna
Such as
>It's still funny that some mad lads just went like hey, what about if we just start sailing into the ocean and see if we ever find anything.
I don't think that's too surprising. Polynesian history is basically island hopping all the way from Taiwan
Andrew Edwards
>water is very cold
I don't believe you
anything above 15°C is swimmable and anything above 20°C is enjoyable up to 30°C when it becomes like cooking a lobster
Asher Scott
>Such as
penguins, Patagonian foxes and hares, octopuses, crabs, deer, guanacos...
Tyler Hughes
Most of these cities are in valleys or on mountains right?
Jace Long
Yes
Alexander Cooper
so this is why there was a war...
Christian Rivera
Plateaus, basins, hills, mountains and valleys.
Benjamin Peterson
*Veracruz (coast)
Daniel Long
monterrey looks badass with those big ass mountains. it probably makes the residents feel like ants
Luke Martinez
nothing wrong with this
Julian Howard
Yes, those mountains look nice. My town is flat as fuck 2bh
Nathan Miller
Refers to Xalapa
Lincoln Sullivan
uh it's called a craggy inlet thank you very much
Joseph Walker
>What happens there?
Nothing really. It's just an empty barren shithole. Most of the population consists of poor fags from other parts of the country or neighboring countries who immigrated recently because they wanted a new beginning. It's very much the equivalent of Siberia for Argentina
Adam White
Veracruz city and Xalapa are far away
Christian Cox
Why is Xalapa the capital of Veracruz and not the City of Veracruz?