Rangeland in regions too dry to support a forest, but not dry enough to be a desert. Pampas are the fertile South American lowlands that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba, most of Uruguay, and the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the southernmost end of Brazil covering more than . These vast plains are only interrupted by the low Ventana and Tandil hills near Bahía Blanca and Tandil (Argentina), with a height of and respectively. The climate is mild, with precipitation of to , more or less evenly distributed through
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