Pampas in cities, as industrialization picked up after the 1930s. As a result, Argentina's history of immigration in Buenos Aires Province is typically associated with cities and urban life, unlike in Entre Ríos Province and Santa Fe Province, where European immigration took on a more rural profile. Pampas The Pampas (from the , meaning "plain") are fertile South American lowlands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and the southernmost Brazilian State, Rio Grande do Sul. The vast plains are a natural region, interrupted only
Argentina–Uruguay relations of 1988, the sole dry limit between Argentina and Uruguay is stablished at the Martín García Island During the presidency of Jorge Batlle in Uruguay, an infidelity of a journalist carried a considerable diplomatic incident in 2002 when an off-topic commentary was aired in Uruguayan television describing Batlle saying that "'Argentinians are all thieves"'. The incident solved after one week when Batlle publicly apologized on Argentinian television. Another filtered commentary of Uruguayan president José Mujica was aired during a meeting where he said that "'with the Turk we were better but with this old lady there is no deal"' making