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Salta Province

Salta is a province

Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one federal district . The federal district and the provinces have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system....
of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa

Formosa Province

Formosa Provinces of Argentina is in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region. Its northeast end touches Asunci?n, Paraguay, and borders the provinces of Chaco Province and Salta Province to its south and west, respectively....
, Chaco

Chaco Province

Chaco is an Argentina province located in the north of the country, near the border with Paraguay. Its capital is Resistencia, Chaco on the Paran? River opposite the city of Corrientes....
, Santiago del Estero

Santiago del Estero Province

Santiago del Estero is a Provinces of Argentina of Argentina, located in the north of the country. Neighbouring provinces are from the north clockwise Salta Province, Chaco Province, Santa Fe Province, C?rdoba Province, Argentina, Catamarca Province and Tucum?n Province....
, Tucumán

Tucumán Province

Tucum?n is a Provinces of Argentina of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The capital is San Miguel de Tucum?n, often shortened to Tucum?n....
and Catamarca

Catamarca Province

Catamarca is a Provinces of Argentina of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. The capital is San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, usually shortened to Catamarca....
. It also surrounds Jujuy

Jujuy Province

Jujuy is a Provinces of Argentina of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta Province to the east and south....
. To the north it borders Bolivia

Bolivia

The Republic of Bolivia , named after Sim?n Bol?var, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west....
and Paraguay

Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the only two landlocked countries in South America . It lies on both banks of the Paraguay River and is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest....
and to the west lies Chile

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
.

re the arrival of the Spanish conquest

Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas was Spain's conquest, settlement, and rule over much of the western hemisphere. Beginning with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, over three centuries the Spanish Empire expanded from early small settlements in the Caribbean to include Central America, most of South America, Mexico, what toda...
, numerous native people (now called Diaguita

Diaguita

The Diaguita, also called Diaguita-Calchaqu?, are a group of South American indigenous peoples of the Americas. The Diaguita culture developed between the 8th and 16th centuries in what are now the provinces of Salta Province, Catamarca Province, La Rioja Province and Tucum?n Province in Argentine Northwest Argentina, and in the At...
s and Calchaquí

Calchaquí

The Calchaqu? were a tribe of South American Indigenous peoples of the Americas of the Diaguita group, now extinct, who formerly occupied northern Argentina....
es) lived in the valleys of what is now Salta Province; they formed many different tribes, the Quilmes

Quilmes (tribe)

The Quilmes people were an indigenous peoples of the Americas of the Diaguita group settled in the western Andes valleys of today?s Tucum?n Province province, in northwestern Argentina.) They fiercely resisted the Inca invasions of the 15th century, and continued to resist the Spain for 130 years, until being defeated in 1667....
and Humahuacas among them, which all shared the Cacán language.

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History

Before the arrival of the Spanish conquest

Spanish colonization of the Americas

Diaguita

Calchaquí

Quilmes (tribe)

Altiplano

The Altiplano , in central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet....
, and the Wichí

Wichí

The Wich? 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....
s (Matacos), near Chaco Province

Chaco Province

Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro , also known as Adelantado and El Viejo , was a Spain conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro....
, in 1535; he was followed by Diego de Rojas. Hernando de Lerma

Hernando de Lerma

Hernando de Lerma was a conqueror, politician, lawyer and city founder from Seville, Spain.On November 13, 1577, Lerma was named Governor of Tucum?n, by Spain King Philip II of Spain....
founded San Felipe de Lerma in 1582, following orders of the viceroy Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa

Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa

Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, was Spanish viceroy of Peru from November 26, 1569 to September 23, 1581....
; the name of the city was soon changed to "San Felipe de Salta". By 1650, the city had around five hundred inhabitants. An intendency of "Salta del Tucumán" was created within the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

The Viceroyalty of the R?o de la Plata was the last and most shortlived viceroyalty created by Spain in 1776. Its limits roughly contained the territories of present day Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay....
. In 1774, San Ramón de La Nueva Orán was founded between Salta

Salta

Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , it is Argentina's 8th largest city....
and Tarija

Tarija

Tarija may refer to:* Tarija Department* Tarija, Bolivia, a city...
(Tarija was added to the intendency later, in 1807). In 1783, in recognition of the growing importance of the city, the capital of the intendency of Salta del Tucumán was moved from Tucumán

Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucum?n is the largest city in northern Argentina, with a population of 525,853 per the . The metropolitan area totals 806,000, making it the fifth-largest in the country....
to Salta.

The battle of Salta

Battle of Salta

The Battle of Salta took place on February 20 1813 on the plains of Casta?ares, near the present-day Argentina city of Salta, during the Argentine War of Independence....
in 1813 freed the territory from Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, but occasional attacks were mounted from the Viceroyalty of Peru

Viceroyalty of Peru

Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish Empire South America, governed from the capital of Lima....
as late as 1826. Gervasio de Posadas created the Province of Salta in 1814; it covered the current provinces of Salta, Jujuy

Jujuy Province

Bolivia

Chile

History of Argentina

This article is about the history of Argentina. See also history of South America, history of Latin America, history of the Americas, and the history of present-day nations and states....
that arose after the Argentine Declaration of Independence

Argentine Declaration of Independence

What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9 1816 by the Congress of Tucum?n of Tucum?n. Actually, Argentina was not a country yet; the congressmen joined in Tucuman declared the independence of the United Provinces of South America ....
, Bolivia annexed Tarija in 1826. In 1834, Jujuy withdrew from Salta and became a separate province. The borders of Salta were reduced further in 1900, with the loss of Yacuiba

Yacuíba

Yacu?ba is a city in southern Bolivia and the capital city of Gran Chaco Province in the Tarija Department. It lies three kilometers from the Argentina border....
to Bolivia.

The National Government of Los Andes, constituted from the province in 1902 with a capital at San Antonio de Los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres is a small town of population 4,274 in northwestern Argentina. It is the capital of the Los Andes Department of the Salta Province....
, was returned to Salta Province in 1943 as the Department of Los Andes.

Geography and climate

To the West, the Puna

Altiplano

The Altiplano , in central South America, where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet....
's arid high plains with salty lakes (Arizaro, Pocitos) has few inhabitants, and its main city is San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres is a small town of population 4,274 in northwestern Argentina. It is the capital of the Los Andes Department of the Salta Province....
.

High snowy Andean

Andes

The Andes form the world's longest exposed mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. The range is over 7,000 km long, 200-700 km wide , and of an average height of about 4,000 m ....
peaks (Acay, Cachi and Chañi) lower to the North-east and hold valleys such as Quebrada del Toro, Valles Calchaquíes and the Lerma Valley. This is the most densely inhabited area, and where the Salta

Salta

Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , it is Argentina's 8th largest city....
city is found. The climate of the area is of hot summers (average of 23 °C with peaks of 40 °C) and cold winters with temperatures well below freezing point.

To the east, near the Gran Chaco

Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco , is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region, of the R?o de la Plata basin, divided between eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and a portion of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso....
area, the more humid subtropical climate is home to the Yungas

Yungas

The Yungas is a stretch of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from southeastern Peru through central Bolivia. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests....
jungle in the El Rey National Park

El Rey National Park

The El Rey National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Anta Department, provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, in the Argentine Northwest, 80 km from the provincial capital....
. The main rivers of the province are the Pilcomayo, Bermejo

Bermejo River

The Bermejo River is a river in South America that travels a total of 1450 km from Bolivia to the Paraguay River in Argentina. The river is generally called Bermejo in spite of its different names along its way, but it also has its own Indigenous peoples of the Americasn names; in Wich? it is called Teuco, and in guaran? language it...
and the Juramento, which later becomes the Salado River. Salta Province is located at a geologically active region, and suffers from occasional earthquake

Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
s. Fairly destructive were the ones that occurred in 1692 and 1948.

Economy

Salta's economy is relatively underdeveloped, yet diverse. Its economy in 2006 was estimated at US$5.1 billion, or, US$4,760 per capita (over 45% below the national average).

Agriculture and its derived industries are still an important activity in the province, adding over 10% to output. Tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
, sugar cane and viticulture

Viticulture

Viticulture is the science, cultivation and study of grapes which deals with the series of events that occur in the vineyard. When the grapes are used for winemaking, it is also known as viniculture....
are the most important and produce most of the exports from the area. Other crops mostly for local consumption are maize

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
, bean

Bean

Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genus of the Family Fabaceae used for human food or animal feed.The whole young pods of bean plants, if picked before the pods ripen and dry, can be tender enough to eat whole, whether cooked or raw....
s, citrus

Citrus

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world....
, banana

Banana

File:Banana and cross section.jpgBanana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce this commonly eaten fruit....
s, and tomato

Tomato

The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
es. The sugar cane is processed in plants in Salta before it is sent to the rest of Argentina and other countries. The plant in San Martín de Tabacal is the most important of them. The famous wines of the Valles Calchaquíes region near Cafayate

Cafayate

Cafayate is a town located at the central zone of the Valles Calchaqu?es in the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina.It sits 1,683 meters above mean sea level, at a distance of 1,329 kilometres from Buenos Aires, 227 from Tucum?n, 311 km from Jujuy and 365 km from San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca....
are produced in numerous vineyard

Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture....
s of diverse sizes (mainly Torrontés

Torrontes

Torront?s is the characteristic white wine grape of Argentine wine, producing fresh, aromatic white wines. Three criolla varieties exist in Argentina: Torront?s Riojano, the most common; Torront?s Sanjuanino; and Torront?s Mendocino....
, Malbec

Malbec

Malbec is a variety of grape used in winemaking red wine. The grapes tend to have an inky dark colour and robust tannins. Long known as one of the six grapes allowed in the blend of red Bordeaux wine, the French plantations of Malbec are now found primarily in Cahors in the South West France region....
and Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine List of grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major List of wine-producing countries among a diverse spectrum of climates from Canadian wine Okanagan Valley to Lebanese wine Beqaa Valley....
).

Gas and petroleum from the Tartagal, Aguas Blancas, Madrejones and Campo Durán centres is transported to Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southern shore of the R?o de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent....
and Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the provinces of Argentina of Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is located 300 km northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paran? River and has 1,025,000 residents as of the ....
by pipes. Campo Durán also has an oil refinery located in the province. In all, manufacturing plays a significant role in Salta, adding 20% to the economy. Mining includes sulfur

Sulfur

Sulfur or sulphur is the chemical element that has the atomic number 16. It is denoted with the symbol S. It is an abundant Valence non-metal....
extraction at the La Casualidad mine, and uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-gray metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the chemical symbol U and atomic number 92....
at Iruya, La Poma and San Carlos.

American breeds of cattle

Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
are raised only on the humid sub-tropical east, along with some sheep

Sheep

#REDIRECT Domestic sheep...
and goat

Goat

The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep: both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae....
s.

Tourism

The Salta Province is home to a number of natural, social and historic attractions.

The city of Salta

Salta

Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , it is Argentina's 8th largest city....
"La Linda" ("The beautiful") is both an important tourist destination, and the centre point for visiting the rest of the province. The city holds different attractions; among them are her colonial houses and cathedral, and the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña de Salta that holds the 3 frozen Inca

Inca Empire

The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco in modern-day Peru....
mummies

Mummy

A mummy is a corpse whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very high humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs....
found at the 6,700 meters of the Llullaillaco

Llullaillaco

Llullaillaco is a stratovolcano at the border of Argentina and Chile. It lies in the Puna de Atacama, a region of very high volcanic peaks on a high plateau within the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places in the world....
volcano.

Also from Salta, the Tren a las nubes crosses canyons and cliffs before arriving to the 3,775 metres (12,500 feet) of San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres is a small town of population 4,274 in northwestern Argentina. It is the capital of the Los Andes Department of the Salta Province....
. The red-rock formations of the Valles Calchaquíes and the wine-town of Cafayate

Cafayate

Cachi

Cachi is a small city in Salta Province Argentina. It is the capital of the Cachi Department....
mountain and the villages (such as Payogasta) around it.

There are 3 national parks

National Parks of Argentina

The National Parks of Argentina make up a network of 29 national parks in Argentina. The parks cover a very varied set of terrains and biotopes, from Barit? National Park on the altiplano northern border with Bolivia to Tierra del Fuego National Park in the far south of the continent ....
in Salta: El Rey National Park

El Rey National Park

Yungas

Baritú National Park

The Barit? National Park is a national park of Argentina, located in the Santa Victoria Department, in the north of the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, in the Argentine Northwest....
and Los Cardones National Park

Los Cardones National Park

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

Political division

The province is divided in 23 departments

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act....
. Department (Capital)

Anta (Joaquín Víctor González)
Cachi (Cachi
Cachi

Cachi is a small city in Salta Province Argentina. It is the capital of the Cachi Department....
)
Cafayate (Cafayate
Cafayate

Cafayate is a town located at the central zone of the Valles Calchaqu?es in the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina.It sits 1,683 meters above mean sea level, at a distance of 1,329 kilometres from Buenos Aires, 227 from Tucum?n, 311 km from Jujuy and 365 km from San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca....
)
Capital (Salta
Salta

Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , it is Argentina's 8th largest city....
)
Cerrillos (Cerrillos
Cerrillos, Salta

Cerrillos is a city in the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina. It has about 18,000 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the Cerrillos Department....
)
Chicoana (Chicoana
Chicoana

The Chicoana are a Diaguita tribe in the Salta Province, Argentina.http://www.chicoanasalta.com...
)
General Güemes (General Güemes
General Güemes, Salta

General G?emes is a city in the center of the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina. It has 29,168 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the General G?emes Department, Salta....
)
General San Martín (Tartagal
Tartagal, Salta

Tartagal is a city in the north of the , 365 km from Salta, Argentina. It has over 60,000 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the General Jos? de San Mart?n Department ....
)
Guachipas (Guachipas)
Iruya (Iruya
Iruya

Iruya is a small town of population 4,299 in northwestern Argentina. It is located in the Salta Province of northwestern Argentina, and is the capital of the Iruya Department....
)
La Poma (La Poma)
La Caldera (La Caldera)
La Candelaria (La Candelaria)
La Viña (La Viña)
Los Andes (San Antonio de los Cobres
San Antonio de los Cobres

San Antonio de los Cobres is a small town of population 4,274 in northwestern Argentina. It is the capital of the Los Andes Department of the Salta Province....
)
Metán (San José de Metán
San José de Metán

San Jos? de Met?n is a city in the south of the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina, 160 km from the provincial capital Salta, on National Routes National Route 9 and National Route 34 ....
)
Molinos (Molinos)
Orán (San Ramón de la Nueva Orán
Orán, Salta

San Ram?n de la Nueva Or?n is a city in the north-west of the , about 270 km from Salta. It is the head town of the Or?n Department and it has about 73,000 inhabitants as per the , which makes it the second most populated in the province....
)
Rivadavia (Rivadavia
Rivadavia, Salta

Rivadavia is a town in eastern Salta Province, Argentina in the Department of Rivadavia, 87 km from the city of Salta. It is in a low-lying region of the province....
)
Rosario de la Frontera (Rosario de la Frontera
Rosario de la Frontera

Rosario de la Frontera is a city in the center-south of the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina. It has 24,819 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Rosario de la Frontera Department....
)
Rosario de Lerma (Rosario de Lerma
Rosario de Lerma

Rosario de Lerma is a city in the center of the provinces of Argentina of Salta Province, Argentina. It has 21,592 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Rosario de Lerma Department....
)
San Carlos (San Carlos)
Santa Victoria (Santa Victoria)

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