History of yerba mate
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The history of yerba mate stretches back to pre-Columbian Paraguay. It is marked by a rapid expansion in harvest and consumption in the Spanish South American colonies but also by its difficult domest
Falkland gauchos having mate at Hope Place. 1850s watercolour by William Pownell Dale.
Indigenous Guaraní (in picture) are known to have consumed yerba mate before the Spanish conquest of Paraguay
Lithograph of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a 19th-century ruler of Paraguay, with a mate and bombilla
Tehuelches of Patagonia drinking mate while the meat of the asado is roasting, 1895
Alto Paraná Atlantic forests
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The Alto Paraná Atlantic forests, also known as the Paraná-Paraíba interior forests, is an ecoregion of the tropical moist forests biome, and the South American Atlantic Forest biome. It is located in
View of the Salto Encantado Provincial Park from Provincial Route 7 in Argentina
Glaucous macaw, an extinct endemic species formerly of this ecoregion.