Argentina

Photo: A gaucho rounding up the cattle

Dust flying, gauchos round up cattle on the vast Pampas in Rancul.

Photograph by Aldo Sessa/Getty Images

At the very bottom of South America, sharing a long border with skinny Chile, this fascinating nation so steeped in European culture extends more than 3,000 miles from Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia in the north to the enchanted islands of Tierra del Fuego in the south. • From the shimmering Pampas, or plains, in the country’s heart—the secret to its succulent, grass-fed beef—to the sultry rain forests and snow-covered mountain peaks, this nation’s extravagant abundance defies imagination.

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