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• Arkansas
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The picturesque Ozark Mountains are located in the North, with magnificent forests of oaks and pines. In the South lie the Mississippi valley plains, where hectares of rice fields become duck hunting paradise in autumn. Arkansas is also famous for its many thermal sources, the most famous ones are the Hot Springs. |
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Capital : Little Rock
Surface : 137,741 km²
Population : 2,522,819
Little Rock : 175,795 |
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| State Attractions |
| Little Rock Pea Ridge Battlefield Petit-Jean State Park
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| The old Ozark Mountains conceal historical villages where craftsmen and vendors of antiquities live. In Mountain View, the Ozark Folk Center State Park is where one preserves the lifestyle of people from the past living in the mountains, as well as the caves of Blanchard Springs. | | 
| Little Rock Formerly outpost of hunters and trappers, Little Rock is the State's capital and home of the excellent Arkansas Art Center. In the center of the State and on banks of the Arkansas river, the city inaugurated, in November 2004, the large Clinton Library. | |  | Hot Springs National Park About 90 km in south-west. Hot Springs was, in 1832, the first National Park of the United States. This national park located in a picturesque mountainous area is at the same time a thermal and climatic spa. The marvelous waters of its 47 medicinal springs are bottled and distributed at the city and the park's bathing establishments. The virtues of these water were already well-known by the Indians, long before the Spanish explorer DeSoto discovered the site in 1541. The hot sources has an output of approximately five million liters per day, at an average temperature of 62 degrees. | | | Eureka Springs One of most charming community of Arkansas, Eureka Springs was developed since 1880, when its 63 sources were recognized for their healing virtues. The streets are inclined there, and the houses fixed on the mountain, sometimes over a ravine or a torrent. In Petit Jean Mountain lies the Winrock Farms, one of the most modern cattle breeding farms in the world.
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| In Bull Shoals, approximately 225 km in the north of Little Rock, you will see spectacular caves, a restored Ozark village, an observatory tower at the top of Bull Mountain. The only diamond mine open to public in the United States is located in the area of Ouchita Mountain. One can try digging out for the diamonds there in exchange of a modest entry price. | | 
| Arkansas is also the fatherland of Bill Clinton, born in Hope on August 19, 1946, who was a governor of the State before reaching the White House in 1993. We can visit the two-story house which where he lived until the age of four. | | | | | | Credits : Arkansas Tourism Office | | | |
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