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Salta Province

Index Salta Province

Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. [1]

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Afro-Argentines

At the Argentine national census of 2010 the total population was 40,117,096, of whom 149,493 (0.37%) identified as Afro-Argentine.

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Aguaray

Aguaray is a city in the province of Salta, General José de San Martín department, in northern Argentina.

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Aguas Blancas, Salta

Aguas Blancas (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Altiplano

The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla"), Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Angastaco

Angastaco is a town in San Carlos Department, Salta Province, Argentina, in the Calchaquí Valley.

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Animaná

Animaná is a town and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Anta Department

Anta is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Antonio Alice

Antonio Alice (23 February 1886 – 24 August 1943) was an Argentine portrait painter.

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Apolinario Saravia, Salta

Apolinario Saravia (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Argentine Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress.

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Argentine Declaration of Independence

What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán.

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Argentine peso

The peso (established as the peso convertible) is the currency of Argentina, identified by the symbol $ preceding the amount in the same way as many countries using dollar currencies.

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Argentine Senate

The Argentine Senate (Honorable Senado de la Nación Argentina; lit. "Honourable Senate of the Argentine Nation") is the upper house of the National Congress of Argentina.

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Arid

A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Baritú National Park

The Baritú National Park (Parque Nacional Baritú) is a national park in Argentina, located in the Santa Victoria Department, in the north of the province of Salta, in the Argentine Northwest.

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Battle of Salta

The Battle of Salta took place on February 20, 1813 on the plains of Castañares, north of the present-day Argentina city of Salta, during the Argentine War of Independence.

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Bean

A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.

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Bermejo River

The Bermejo River (Spanish, Río Bermejo) is a river in South America that flows from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in Argentina.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties.

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Cacán language

Cacán (also Cacan, Kakán, Calchaquí, Chaka, Diaguita, and Kaka) is an extinct language that was spoken by the Diaguita and Calchaquí tribes in northern Argentina and Chile.

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Cachi Department

Cachi is a department in the east of Salta Province, Argentina.

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Cachi, Argentina

Cachi is a small city in Salta Province Argentina.

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Cafayate

Cafayate is a town located at the central zone of the Valles Calchaquíes in the province of Salta, Argentina.

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Cafayate Department

Cafayate is a department located in Salta Province, in northwestern Argentina.

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Calchaquí

The Calchaquí were a tribe of South American Indians of the Diaguita group, now extinct, who formerly occupied northern Argentina.

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Calchaquí Valleys

The Calchaquí Valley (Valles Calchaquíes) is an area in the northwestern region of Argentina which crosses the provinces of Catamarca, Tucumán, Jujuy and Salta.

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Campo Durán

Campo Durán is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Campo Quijano

Campo Quijano is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Campo Santo, Salta

Campo Santo (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Capital city

A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.

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Capital Department, Salta

Capital is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Catamarca Province

Catamarca is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Cerrillos Department

Cerrillos is a department of Salta Province, Argentina, located near Salta city.

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Cerrillos, Salta

Cerrillos is a city in the province of Salta, Argentina.

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Chaco Province

The Province of Chaco (provincia del Chaco) is a province in north-eastern Argentina.

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Chicoana

The Chicoana are a Diaguita tribe in the Salta Province, Argentina.

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Chicoana Department

Chicoana is a department located in Salta Province, in northwestern Argentina.

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Children of Llullaillaco

The Children of Llullaillaco, also known as the Mummies of Llullaillaco, are three Inca child mummies rediscovered on 16 March 1999 by Dr.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Chubut Province

Chubut (Talaith Chubut; Provincia del Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west, and the Atlantic ocean to the east.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

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Colonia Santa Rosa

Colonia Santa Rosa is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Conquistador

Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

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Coronel Juan Solá

Coronel Juan Solá is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Coronel Moldes

Coronel Moldes (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Departments of Argentina

Departments (departamentos) form the second level of administrative division (below the provinces) in all of Argentina except for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the national capital, each of which has different administrative arrangements.

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Diaguita

The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest.

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Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro, (– July 8, 1538), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador and a companion.

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Diurnal temperature variation

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.

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Dry season

The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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El Bordo, Salta

El Bordo is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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El Carril

El Carril is a town in the San Cristóbal province of the Dominican Republic.

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El Galpón, Salta

El Galpón (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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El Jardín

El Jardín is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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El Potrero, Salta

El Potrero (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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El Quebrachal

El Quebrachal is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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El Rey National Park

The El Rey National Park (Parque Nacional El Rey) is a national park of Argentina, located in the Anta Department, province of Salta, in the Argentine Northwest, 80 km from the provincial capital.

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El Tala

El Tala is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Embarcación

Embarcación (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Formosa Province

Formosa Province is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region.

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Francisco de Toledo

Francisco Álvarez de Toledo (10 July 1515 – 21 April 1582) was an aristocrat and soldier of the Kingdom of Spain and the fifth Viceroy of Peru.

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Front for Victory

The Front for Victory (Frente para la Victoria, FPV) is a centre-left Peronist electoral alliance in Argentina, and it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party.

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General Ballivián

General Ballivián is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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General Güemes Department, Salta

General Güemes is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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General Güemes, Salta

General Güemes, sometimes shortened in Güemes, is a town in the center of the province of Salta, Argentina.

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General Mosconi, Salta

General Mosconi (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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General Pizarro

General Pizarro is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Goat

The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.

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Guachipas

Guachipas is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Guachipas Department

Guachipas is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Guaraní people

Guaraní are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples of South America.

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Hernando de Lerma

Hernando de Lerma Polanco (born November 1, 1541) was a conqueror, politician, lawyer and city founder from Seville, Spain.

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Hipólito Yrigoyen, Salta

Hipólito Yrigoyen (Salta) is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic (composite index) of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.

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Indigenous peoples in Argentina

Argentina has 35 indigenous groups or Argentine Amerindians or Native Argentines, according to the Complementary Survey of the Indigenous Peoples of 2004, in the first attempt by the government in more than 100 years to recognize and classify the population according to ethnicity.

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Iruya

Iruya is a small town of population 1,070 in northwestern Argentina.

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Iruya Department

Iruya is a department is located in the north of Salta Province in northwest Argentina in the high altitude basin of the Bermejo River.

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Isla de Cañas, Argentina

Isla de Cañas is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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ISO 3166-2:AR

ISO 3166-2:AR is the entry for Argentina in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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Joaquín V. González, Argentina

Joaquín V. González is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Juan Manuel Urtubey

Juan Manuel Urtubey (born September 6, 1969) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and current Governor of Salta Province.

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Jujuy Province

Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia.

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La Caldera

La Caldera is a small town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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La Caldera Department

La Caldera is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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La Candelaria, Salta

La Candelaria (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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La Merced, Salta

La Merced is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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La Poma

La Poma is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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La Viña Department

La Viña is a department located in Salta Province, in northwestern Argentina.

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La Viña, Salta

La Viña (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Las Lajitas

Las Lajitas is a town and municipality in Anta department, Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index

The following table presents a listing of Argentina's provinces and its autonomous city, ranked in order of their Human Development Index.

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List of Argentine provinces by population

The following table is a list of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires of Argentina, ranked in order of their total population based on data from 2013 estimates, 2010 and 2001 census from the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina.

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List of Argentine senators, 2017–2019

This is a list of members of the Argentine Senate from 10 December 2017 to 9 December 2019.

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List of national parks of Argentina

The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 33 national parks in Argentina.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Llullaillaco

Llullaillaco is a dormant stratovolcano at the border of Argentina (Salta Province) and Chile (Antofagasta Region).

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Los Andes Department

Los Andes (i.e.: The Andes) is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Los Cardones National Park

The Los Cardones National Park (Parque Nacional Los Cardones) is a national park of Argentina, located in the center-west of the province of Salta, within the San Carlos and Cachi Departments, in the Argentine Northwest.

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Los Toldos, Salta

Los Toldos (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Malbec

Malbec is a purple grape variety used in making red wine.

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Martín Miguel de Güemes

Martín Miguel de Güemes (8 February 1785 – 17 June 1821) was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spanish during the Argentine War of Independence.

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Mercalli intensity scale

The Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.

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Metán Department

Metán is a department located in Salta Province, in Argentina.

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Molinos, Salta

Molinos is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted as Mw or M) is one of many seismic magnitude scales used to measure the size of earthquakes.

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Mummy

A mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

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Nazareno, Salta

Nazareno (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Neuquén Province

Neuquén is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia.

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Nevado de Cachi

Nevado de Cachi is the name given to a large complex of mountains that lies in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Orography

Orography (from the Greek όρος, hill, γραφία, to write) is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.

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Paraguay

Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.

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Payogasta

Payogasta is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Pichanal

Pichanal is a town and municipality in Orán Department, located in northeastern Salta Province, Argentina.

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Pilcomayo River

Pilcomayo (in Hispanicized spelling) (Quechua Pillkumayu or Pillku Mayu, pillku red, mayu river, "red river", Guarani Ysyry Araguay) is a river in central South America.

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Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (provincias, singular provincia) and one autonomous city (ciudad autónoma), Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation (Capital Federal) as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.

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Quilmes people

The Quilmes people, also known as Kilmes, were an indigenous tribe of the Diaguita group settled in the western subandean valleys of today’s Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina.

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Qulla

The Qulla (Quechuan for south, hispanicized and mixed spellings: Colla, Kolla) are an indigenous people of western Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina living in Jujuy and Salta Provinces.

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Río Negro Province

Río Negro (Black River) is a province of Argentina, located at the northern edge of Patagonia.

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Río Piedras, Salta

Río Piedras is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Representative democracy

Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.

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Richter magnitude scale

The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".

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Rivadavia, Salta

Rivadavia is a town in eastern Salta Province, Argentina in the Department of Rivadavia, from the city of Salta.

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Rosario de la Frontera

Rosario de la Frontera is a city in the center-south of the province of Salta, Argentina.

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Rosario de Lerma

Rosario de Lerma is a town in the center of the province of Salta, Argentina.

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Rosario de Lerma Department

Rosario de Lerma is a department located in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Rosario, Santa Fe

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, in central Argentina.

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Salado River (Argentina)

The Salado River (Río Salado, "Salty River") is a river that crosses several provinces of Argentina, flowing from its source in the Salta Province to end in the Paraná River, in the Santa Fe Province.

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Salta

Salta is a city located in the Lerma Valley, at 1,152 metres (3780 feet) above sea level in the northwest part of Argentina.

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Salvador Mazza, Salta

Salvador Mazza or Profesor Salvador Mazza (also known as Pocitos) is a city in northern Argentina, in Salta Province, north of the capital city of Salta, and from the city of Tartagal on National Route 34 in General José de San Martín Department, on the international border with Bolivia.

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San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres is a small town of population 5,482 (per the 2001 INDEC census) in northwestern Argentina.

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San Carlos Department, Salta

San Carlos is a department located in Salta Province, in Argentina.

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San Carlos, Salta

San Carlos is a head village of the department of San Carlos, Province of Salta, Argentina.

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San José de Metán

San José de Metán (usually shortened to Metán) is a city in the south of the province of Salta, Argentina, 160 km from the provincial capital Salta, on National Routes 9 and 34.

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San Miguel de Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucumán; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital of the Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza and the most important of the northern region. The Spanish Conquistador founded the city in 1565 in the course of an expedition from present-day Peru. Tucumán moved to its present site in 1685.

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San Ramón de la Nueva Orán

San Ramón de la Nueva Orán (usually referred to simply as Orán) is a city in northwest, about from the provincial capital, Salta.

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Santa Victoria Este

Santa Victoria Este is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Santa Victoria Oeste

Santa Victoria Oeste is a municipality and head of the Santa Victoria Department, at the northwest corner of the province of Salta, Argentina, between mountains and valleys on the border with the Republic of Bolivia, 540 km from the city of Salta.

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Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero, also called "Santiago", is a province in the north of Argentina.

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Seclantás

Seclantás is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tarija

Tarija or San Bernardo de la Frontera de Tarixa is a city in southern Bolivia.

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Tartagal, Salta

Tartagal is a city in the north of the, 365 km from the provincial capital.

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Time in Argentina

Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−4 or UTC−5 time zone, but it actually uses the UTC−3 time zone.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Tolar Grande

Tolar Grande is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Tomato

The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, often red, fruit/berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant.

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Torrontés

Torrontés is a white Argentine wine grape variety, producing fresh, aromatic wines with moderate acidity, smooth texture and mouthfeel as well as distinctive peach and apricot aromas on the nose.

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Tren a las Nubes

The Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) is a tourist train service in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Urundel

Urundel is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Viceroyalty of Peru

The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú) was a Spanish colonial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima.

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Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (Virreinato del Río de la Plata, also called Viceroyalty of the River Plate in some scholarly writings) was the last to be organized and also the shortest-lived of the Viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire in America.

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Villa San Lorenzo

Villa San Lorenzo is a town and municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.

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Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice.

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Viticulture

Viticulture (from the Latin word for vine) is the science, production, and study of grapes.

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Wichí

The Wichí are an indigenous people of South America. They are a large group of tribes ranging about the headwaters of the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo River, in Argentina and Bolivia.

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Yacuíba

Yacuiba is a city in southern Bolivia and the capital city of Gran Chaco Province in the Tarija Department.

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Yungas

The Yungas (Aymara yunka warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru, Bolivia, and northern Argentina.

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1692 Salta earthquake

The 1692 Salta earthquake took place in the Province of Salta, in the Republic of Argentina on 13 September at.

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1844 Salta earthquake

The 1844 Salta earthquake took place in the Province of Salta, in the Republic of Argentina, on 18 October at 23:00 UTC.

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1948 Salta earthquake

The 1948 Salta earthquake took place in the Argentinian province of Salta on 25 August at The shock was 7.0 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent).

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2010 Salta earthquake

The 2010 Salta earthquake occurred on February 27 at in Salta Province, Argentina and had a magnitude of 6.3.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salta_Province

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