Chapter 2, Box 2.7: Mendoza, Argentina: Two faces of the deserts

ABRAHAM, E

Global Deserts Outlook

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Lugar: Nairobi, Kenya; Año: 2006; p. 40 - 40

Mendoza, located in central-western Argentina on the eastern piedmont of the Andes, is a clear example of potentials provided, and restrictions imposed, by deserts. A region of natural contrasts; it is also marked by deep social contrasts reflected in two Mendozas. One, rich and ostentatious in the irrigated oases, is built at the expense of the other: the non-irrigated desert, only inhabited by isolated producers of livestock, mostly goats .