On February 29, March 1-2, 2008, in Argentine will be held the “First National and International Competition of Survival and Orienteering 2007” (Copy Right), to be carried out in areas of wooded land near of Ezeiza city, located in the Province of Buenos Aires.

The structure of the competition is a physical-intellectual test that will be carried out in the wilderness of a wooded and plain land, and will be made up of local and foreigners teams of 3 members each, male or female of any sex, whose in order to take part in the event, they must have knowledge and be experienced in the use of Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation techniques, to be able of carrying them out on outdoor activities. The organization of this sporting event in which some members of its staff will provide full support as English translators to provide assistance for foreign teams, will require that the participants have special skills and abilities to be oriented, to walk and to survive in the wilderness during 3 days time through an itinerary of 60 kms. of distance. In order to do that, they must use the standard discipline of trekking to walk through the wood area towards the different objectives located on the terrain (natural doors) and to reach the finish point of the competition.

During the itinerary, the teams will be required to make some tests and theoretical/practice verifications, about the following subjects:

Health and First Aids. Emergency signalling (codes, methods, etc). Construction of shelters. Water obtainment. Food obtainment. Fire obtainment. Compass use. Maps and topographic maps use. Wade of obstacles. Canopy. Rappel. Construction of traps. Walk. Safety rules in the survival. Meteorology and weather forecast. Wild feeding at any place in which you must survive. Distance esteem. Heighst and wide. Art of improvised way of hunting and fishing. Crossing with ropes. Construction of primitive weapons. Communications. Climbing. Knowledge of arthropod and ophidians.

Those members of the teams that wish to take part in the competition and don’t feel ready to participate because they are not experienced on the required skills, the U.A.S.O. and NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.), will run courses on Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation techniques, to provide them a technical education and training based on a theoretical-practice assistance, according to the type of event in which they would participate, through the information you can find on this website www.northlatitude.com.ar – Section courses of Survival – Orienteering and Land Navigation. Likewise, the teaching reaches to those interested who like foreigners want to participate and get educated and trained in Argentine also, because we have scheduled before the competition get started, to run courses about the aforementioned techniques in full English language, in classroom (theory) and on the terrain (training), meaning this that the organizers of this sporting event will not only carry out a competition like this one for the first time in Argentine, if not, they offer the opportunity to train foreigners in English language aimed for an international competition, becoming us in this way as forerunners in the South America continent, to run courses in other language for a competition.

Who may participate? Everyone. The participation in this competition reaches to those persons who want to compete because there is neither limit of age nor of sex, even, families, relatives, friends, Co workers members, etc, may form a team.

The practice phase of the courses (Survival and Orienteering) will be given on wild wood lands of Jungle and forest lands in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Special-Preparatory course of Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation techniques for participating teams.

We inform you that if want to participate and have no knowledge on the required techniques, we’ve scheduled to run some preparatory courses on combined techniques of Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation, before the start of the competition

It will last three (3) days and will be divided as follow below:

rice per team: American dollars seventy (u$s 70).

The teams that wish to be subscribed in the competition, they must contact us by phone or e-mail, as follow below:

Clik here to see the team´s list

The prices that appears below are for team (involving three members each)

Ruben Yorio

• Founder and Director of the Argentine Union of Survival of the West – U.A.S.O. - (Buenos Aires - Argentine)
• Organizer and Sporting Manager in the first National Competition of Survival on jungle and forest land – (decreed as sporting interest) (Escobar – Parana de las Palmas - Buenos Aires - Argentine)
• Organizer and Sporting Manager in the first Amateurs National Competition of Urban Survival (Buenos Aires – Argentine)
• Instructor of Survival Courses for Civilian Defense volunteers – U.A.S. - (Buenos Aires - Argentine)
• Organizer of the "First National and International Competition of Survival and Orieenterring 2007", carried out in woodland area of the Argentine Republic.
• Sporting Commissioner of the "First National and International Competition of Survival and Orieenterring 2007", carried out in woodland area of the Argentine Republic.
• Infantile Survival Instructor for primary schools (Buenos Aires – Argentine)
• Survival Instructor at Merlo Hunting and Fishing Club (Buenos Aires - Argentine)
• Explorer and forest hunter (Argentine Army)
• Survival Instructor in jungle land (Argentine Army)
• Survival Instructor in forest land (Argentine Army)
• Instructor Instructor in high and mid mountain (Argentine Army)
• Mountain Hunters Instructor (Argentine Army)
• Veterinary Company Course (Argentine Army)
• Basic Course of Survival in jungle land (Argentine Army)
• Advanced Course of Survival in jungle land (Argentine Army)
• Basic Course of Survival in forest land (Argentine Army)
• Advanced Course of Survival in forest land (Argentine Army)
• Survival Student in high mountain and extreme cold land (Argentine)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Panama)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Venenzuela)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Colombia)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Perú)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Ecuador)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Bolivia)
• Survival Course in jungle and forest land (Paraguay)
• Survival Course at Water (Argentine Guardcoast)
• Auxiliar (Argentine Red Cross)
• Profesor (General Staff in Chief of the Argentine Army)
• Professor (Argentine National Gendarmerie)
• Professor (Engineers Company – Argentine Army)
• Martial Arts Professor (5th. Dan - Argentine)
• Participant of the “San Antonio de Padua National Festival” in the exhibition of Survival – Search and Rescue –SAR- (Buenos Aires – Argentine)

Gabriel Esquivel

• Dedicated to sporting activities like Trekking, Mountain climbing, Survival, Orientation and Land Navigation, among others.
• Associated Investigator in Sporting Development at the website www.andinia.com
• Military Personnnel (R) of the Argentine Air Force, specialized in Computing, Estatistics and Programmation.
• Master in Computing -2 years studied- (Catholic of Salta University)
• Activities developed in the àreas of Operative Computing, Direction of Systems, Systems of Radars (National Plan of Radars), Systems of Flight Plans in the Air Traffic Control and Comunications (Argentine Air Force).
• Survival Instructor (Delta Survival).
• Orienteering and Land Navigation Instructor (Delta Survival)
• General Survival, Cartography, Orienteering and Land Navigation (Argentine Air Force).
• General Survival Specialist (C.I.S.S. - I.C.S.R - Instruction Center of Survival and Rescue - 3rd.  Air Brigade based on Reconquista City - Argentine Air Force).
• Land Navigator (Argentine Air Force).
• Orienteering, Land Navigation and GPS "Topography, Cartography, Orienteering, Position, Land Navigation, Compass and GPS handling" (Tierra Sur - Center of Activities and Mountain Sporting).
• Trekking and Mountain Hiking "First Aids in Remotes Natural Environments, Bad Acutte Sickness, Acclimatization Technics and Basic Meteorology for Mountain Climbers" (Tierra Sur - Center of Activities and Mountain Sporting).
• General coordinator of the course “Survival and Orienteering” (Pereyra Iraola Park – La Plata)
• General coordinator of the course “Orienteering, Land Navigation and Basic Techniques of Survival” (Pereyra Iraola Park – La Plata)
• Forerunner in the Argentine Republic and the South American Continent in the integral running of courses in english language, on Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation techniques, with support to Search and Rescue (SAR), Parachuting, Diving and First Aids techniques (Theory -in classroom- and Training -on the ground)
• Organizer of the "First National and International Competition of Survival and Orieenterring 2007", carried out in woodland area of the Argentine Republic.
• Sporting Director of the "First National and International Competition of Survival and Orieenterring 2007", carried out in woodland area of the Argentine Republic.
• Expounder in Space Satellites, Digitals Maps and GPS - functioning of Remotes Sensors and Radars based on Satellite and Airborne Platforms, Sinthetic Aperture Radars, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Maps creation and universal working of the Global Positioning Systems (UCS).
• English translater (Argentine Air Force Language Center - Defense Language Institute - English Languaje Center - Lackland Air Force Base, Texas).
• Translations of Sporting Parachuting Books (Flying Club of Bs. As.) and Military Books (ArgentinE Air Force) for Mario "dog" Rodríguez - Parachuting National and International Instructor.
• www.northlatitude.com.ar sporting website translator.
• Qadventure sporting magazine translator.
• Collaboration "ad-honoren" for the sporting websites www.aventurarse.com, www.traccion.com.ar, www.alborde.com.ar, www.andinia.com and www.ladeportista.com.ar regarding to trekking, moutain climbing, survival, orienteering, land navigation and personal mountain security.
• Diplomatic Protocol, Official and Ceremony in the Publics Relationship (Argentina Air Force).
• High Managment of Personnel - Managership Conduction - Level IV (Argentine Air Force).
• Managment of Persons and Human Groups at Work and Social enviroments - Level V (Argentine Air Force).
• Modern Oratory (Argentine Air Force).
• In view of the creation of a productive culture for companies of the year 2000 (M.B. Associated Advicers).