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atagonia, a region in the southern tip of the Americas where the Andes meet the ocean in present-day Argentina and Chile, takes its name after Europeans thought it a land populated by giants, based on the large footprints left by Indigenous peoples' footwear.Nineteenth-century Argentinian and Chilean intellectuals defined it as a desert, characterized by the absence of the