Street View Page on Argentina

Outline

1. Street View screen captures
• First StreetView of Catedral de La Plata
• Second StreetView of Iguazu Falls
• Third StreetView of Cueva de las Manos
2. Links to Street View panoramas
• Link to Lago Nahuel Huapi
• Link to Talampaya National Park
• Link to Dock on Esteros del Ibera
3. MapChannels Street View Animation
• Route from Buenos Aires to Cordoba
• Route from Cordoba to Bariloche
• Route from Bariloche to La Plata
4. Moore's Where to Invade Next
• The value of travel

1 Street View Screen Captures

Catedral de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

The Catedral de La Plata is an important landmark in La Plata, Argentina. The cathedral is of the Neogothic architectural style and was not fully complete until 1999. Catedral de La Plata is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady of Sorrows in the Roman Catholic faith. 

 

 

Iguazu Falls, Misiones, Argentina

Iguazu Falls is a primary tourist attraction located in the Misiones province of Argentina, on the Brazilian border. All combine waterfalls of the present Iguazu River make the site the largest waterfall in the world. Although the river flows through Brazil, the waterfalls are located on the Argentine side. 

 

 

Cueva de Las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Cueva de las Manos is another significant landmark in Argentina, located in the country’s province of Santa Cruz. Inside the cave is rock art that dates back to 7370 B.C. The art is made up of polychrome paintings that cover recesses in the almost-vertical walls with imprints of human hands, drawings of guanacos and abstract designs, from a later era. 

 

2 Links to Street View Panoramas

Insert three links with descriptions to Street View Panoramas here. In contrast to above, these are "live links" so you'll be able to spin the image once they appear.

Example-1: Lago Nahuel Huapi

Example-2: Talampaya National Park

Example-3: Dock on Esteros del Ibera

 

3 MapChannels Streetview Player

The MapChannels Streetview Player tool stitches Google's panoramic street view data into an animation. In the dialog, you can enter the start and end location of your trip. When you click Creaqte Map, the route is marked on a map and the StreetView images will start playing. You can control the method of travel, the pace of the timelapse, and the distance between StreetView images as well as many other settings:

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My First Animation (Picture link): Buenos Aires to Cordoba

My first animation shows a trip by bus or car from Buenos Aires to Cordoba, Argentina. At first, you begin in about the urban center of Buenos Aires. Once you are outside of Buenos Aires, you travel through suburbs of the city and then rural countryside up until you arrive in Cordoba. 

 

 

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My Second Animation (Picture link): Cordoba to Bariloche

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This animation shows a journey from Cordoba to Bariloche, Argentina. As in Buenos Aires, you begin in the middle of urban Cordoba. Once outside Cordoba, you drive through dry countryside until you encounter desert about halfway through. Eventually, you enter a hilly desert before you reach the green, forested area that lies on the outskirts of Bariloche, just before arriving into town. 

 

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My Third Animation (Picture link): Bariloche to La Plata

This animation shows us a journey from Bariloche to La Plata, Argentina, by bus or car. The journey begins in the heart of Bariloche. Once outside the town, you begin driving through desert before encountering open, green fields with a little bit of vegetation. You travel mostly through lush, green countryside that includes some wetland areas before you reach the dry outskirts of La Plata. Finally, from these dry outskirts, you arrive in the city.

4 Moore's Where to Invade Next

Moore's documentary is politically polarizing. Conservative columnists, such as Armon White, are sharply critical of the movie. First, comment on the validity of White's negative review. Then, putting aside politics, what can the movie show us about the value of travel in understanding our own country.

 

fter reading Armond White’s critical article over Michael Moore’s documentary “Where To Invade Next,” I have come to sympathize with White’s negative review. White claims that Moore’s anti-Americanism transforms into sentimental patriotism and says both positions are shallow and non-credible. The political and social systems of the European countries that Moore visited are unrealistic and would destroy America’s capitalist system and civilized government as America is a country built on the philosophy of every man makes what he earns while in many European countries, including the ones that Moore visits, implement free health care and equal pay to all workers, which goes against what our country was founded on. In addition, White goes on to label the political satire that Moore sympathizes with as “chucklehead” and also claims it’s of a different “logic” where argument and proof are less important than self-righteousness and a sense of derogatory superiority. This current political satire of Moore’s that White is criticizing is the satire that seems to be digging our country deeper into political and social division as well as sadly shaping today’s American politics.

Finally, putting aside all politics, Moore’s documentary teaches us the importance of traveling as a way to learn more about ourselves and our culture as well as other peoples and other cultures that exist on earth. Whenever you take a trip to a foreign country, you are exposed to the people of that country and their way of life. You are exposed to their different belief systems, traditions, languages, foods, histories, ways of life and more. When you encounter these other peoples and their different cultures and livelihoods, you become aware of different ways of viewing the world and living life in other ways from how you view and world and live life in your home country. These lessons you learn about other peoples, their cultures and their livelihoods result in you not only having a better understanding of how people exist around you, but also a better understanding of how you exist and why you believe and think the way you do. If you were to never travel, you would be the same kind of small-minded, naïve person that White claims that Moore is. You would not know that there  are so many ways to live in this world and appreciate the world for what it is. Simply put: when you travel, the more you learn about the different people, cultures and livelihoods around you, the more you will learn about yourself, your culture and your way of life as well.

Submitted by Spence Bridgman on April 11, 2020.