Monte Desert Monte Desert The Monte Desert is a South American ecoregion, lying entirely within Argentina and covering approximately the submontane areas of Catamarca, La Rioja, San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza Provinces, plus the western half of La Pampa Province and the extreme north of Río Negro Province. The desert lies southeast of the Atacama Desert in Chile, north of the larger Patagonian Desert, east of the Andes and west of the Sierra de Córdoba. The delineations between the Monte Desert, the Atacama Desert, and the Patagonian Desert are not exact and the desert seems to be more-or-less continuous with the
Formosa, Ontario Formosa, Ontario Formosa is a community located in the municipality of South Bruce, in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Prominent features of Formosa include: Neighbouring towns include Mildmay and Walkerton. The postal code for the hamlet is N0G 1W0. Rev. Gaspar Matoga, a Jesuit missionary, visited the area in January 1853, on one of many trips to minister to the new settlements of the region. Upon seeing the valley in which the present day hamlet is situated, he described it as "formosa", the Latin word for beautiful. The new community of Formosa had a school as early as 1854. There have