Question
Answer the following about places in Argentina named for Old World locales, for 10 points each.
[10e] This northeastern region of Argentina, whose lush landscape is bounded by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers, is named after the historical region of modern-day Iraq from the Greek for “land between the rivers.”
ANSWER: Mesopotamia [or Región Mesopotamia]
[10h] The Chubut Valley is home to many places, including the seaport of Puerto Madryn, whose names derive from this European region. Settlers from this region arrived in the 1860s aboard the Mimosa as part of the Conquest of the Desert.
ANSWER: Wales [or Cymru; prompt on United Kingdom or UK; prompt on Great Britain]
[10m] This second-largest city in Argentina and home of the country’s oldest university is named after an Andalusian city whose notable buildings include its 8th-century Great Mosque-turned-Catholic cathedral.
ANSWER: Córdoba [accept Cordova]
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