Argentina has a long history that traces back several thousand years.

The first inhabitants of what is now Argentina, as you can observe in the displays inside the Santa Cruz Museum, began about 11,000 years before Christ.

Patagonia, La Pampa, and El Chaco were the first populated places in the Sierra de Cordoba mountains, and were farmers. Tastil, a place in the north with 3,000 inhabitants, was the most populated city in Pre-Columbia.

In the 15th Century, a large part of Agrentina passed to the hands of the Inca Empire, and later to the Columbian Era, and ended finally with the foundation of the city of Buenos Aires in 1536. Later came the cities of Santiago del Estero and Cordoba. These three cities are the country´s oldest.

In the 18th Century, the first indigenous uprising happened since the "Cuzco" uprising in Peru. Under the command of Tupac Amaru II, the battle extended over the entire continent, which ended in the 19th Century with the independence of South America.

During the 19th Century, Buenos Aires was occupied by the British, but after 46 days, the French ran them out of the country. It was the creole population that conquered the city. During that period in 1810, during the Revolution of May, they conquered the Spaniards (the last of this land´s "foreign invaders") and threw them out of the country.

Little by little, Argentina recuperated its territory, that was previously in the hands of the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Brazilians, until the country was completely formed in 1852.

After the war with Paraguay, the Conquest of the Desert, and the Gold Rush at the end of the 19th Century, there was a huge economic boom in the country which created a stability that began to fall apart at the beginnning of the 20th century with the "golpe del estado" (coup d´état) gave power to a militant group. Later with the era of Eva Peron, democracy flourished until 1962, when another coup d´état happened, which stopped the evolution of Argentina cold in its tracks. In the 1980´s, democracy returned to the forefront, and is still in place today.