Many of the provinces carry names rooted in Indigenous languages such as Quechua, Mapuche, and Guaraní. Others have Spanish colonial or religious origins.

For example:

Even more interesting translations, such as “Very Pronounced Point Between Two Rivers” (Chaco) or “Prickly Plant Fruit” (Tucumán), come from Indigenous terms describing local landscapes, flora, or cultural practices.

Trump went on to argue that the term is used to explain any weather pattern. “If it rains, if it snows, if it’s warm, it’s climate change that’s destroying the world ,” he said, adding that past predictions about global catastrophe were exaggerated. He claimed the planet “got actually much cooler” and called the movement “a little conspiracy,” saying it “has to be investigated immediately.”

The remarks came on the second day of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the United States, his first in eight years and one that Trump has framed as close to a state visit, despite the Crown Prince not being Saudi Arabia’s head of state.