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Photo: Río Negro Ranch
Photo: Aerial view of ranch lands
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Photograph by Peter Essick
A single ranch can stretch for several hundred thousand acres in Río Negro, a province in northern Argentine Patagonia. Ranch workers oversee far-flung grazing from outposts called puestos, like the one above, where hours are long and comforts are few.
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