ravel just forty-five minutes from downtown Buenos Aires and you enter a whole new world – the pampas, or plains – a paradise of quietness and peace. The endless horizon is broken only by the occasional copse of trees, or by a gaucho astride his horse, rounding up a herd of cows. Argentina is known worldwide for the agricultural richness of its pampas, which where crucial in the development of the country during the 19th and 20th century.