Provinces of Argentina

In accordance with the constitution of 1853, revised in 1994, the Argentine is an organized federal republic of 23 provinces and an autonomous city set up in federal district: Buenos Aires.

Except the capital which has a special statute, the Argentine is divided into Région S, themselves divided into Province S. The provinces have in fact all the capacities which were not deputy expressly at the federal government. They are charged to manage justice and primary education. It are organized as they hear it by electing their executive powers and legislature. The provinces can regulate between them all kinds of agreements of type the legal, economic or social. The national executive power has only the capacity to intervene in order to ensure the republican shape of the government and to push back the foreign invasions.

The majority of the provinces of the center and the north of the country are former to the existence of the Argentine like national State, however provinces with a great aboriginal presence or a weak population like are the Pampa, Chaco, Formosa, Misiones, Neuquén, Rio Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz, the Ground of fire, the the Antarctic and the islands of the Atlantique southern were at one time of the national territories depend on the federal government. While becoming provinces, it acquired the same administrative statute as those which existed already. The last territories to change statute were the Earth of fire, the Antarctic and the islands of the South Atlantic which became a province in 1991.

One of old the national territories , the territory of the Andes, never managed to be converted into province. It was formed in 1900 and then covered the totality of the Puna of the North-West of the country, but, because of a very weak development and a population, it was dissolved in 1943, the territories being then incorporated in the provinces of Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca.

List provinces

Between brackets, the capital of the province

  1. Buenos Aires (Plata)

  2. Córdoba (Córdoba)
  3. Santa Fe (Santa Fe)
  4. Quoted autonomous of Buenos Aires, federal district
  5. Mendoza (Mendoza)
  6. Tucumán (San Miguel de Tucumán)
  7. Between Ríos (Paraná)
  8. Salta (Salta)
  9. Misiones (Posadas)
  10. Chaco (Resistencia)
  11. Corrientes (Corrientes)
  12. Santiago del Estero (Santiago del Estero)
  13. Jujuy (San Salvador de Jujuy)
  14. San Juan (San Juan)
  15. Río Negro (Viedma)
  16. Formosa (Formosa)
  17. Neuquén (Neuquén)
  18. Chubut (Rawson)
  19. San Luis (San Luis)
  20. Catamarca (San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca)
  21. Rioja (Rioja)
  22. the Pampa (Santa Rosa)
  23. Santa Cruz (Río Gallegos)
  24. Tierra del Fuego, Antártida, E Islas del Atlántico On (Ushuaia)

Demography

Internal bond

List of leaders: provinces of Argentina

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