A diverse, cosmopolitan nation, Argentina is home to more than 35 million people. As Alan Parker writes in The Making of Evita, "This country is the spiritual heart of the film -- a strange, fascinating place that would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate completely elsewhere. Unlike any other South American country, Argentina prides itself on its 'European-ness,' settled as it was by Italians and Spanish with pockets of British, French and Germans. There are half a million Jews and as many Arabs among the population. They say that you can push a plow westward from Buenos Aires across the rich, fertile Pampas for a thousand miles and never hit a stone. There are the tropical Iguasso falls in the north and Antarctic glaciers to the south. From the vineyards of Córdoba to the rocky expanse of Patagonia, the country is truly unique. I'm sure I'm not the first Englishman to be taken by the strange, paradoxical and incomprehensible beauty of it all." Related Links About Argentina Argentina History Unbuilt Evita Memorial Travel in Argentina Postcards from Argentina