San Miguel de Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucumán is the capital of the province of Tucumán, located in the North-West of the Argentinian République.

The city counts two universities, the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (National university of Tucumán, created in 1914) and the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino (University of North - Saint Thomas d' Aquin, created in 1965). The Cathédrale of San Miguel de Tucumán is the seat of a catholic Archevêché.

Situation

The city is built in extreme cases of the mounts of Aconquija, the mountainous cordillera Eastern before the broad plains chaco-pampéennes. It is located on rivet western Río Salí-Dulce and extends towards the west within its metropolitan surface, to the first sides of the Sierra of San Javier.

It is the economic center of an irrigated area which produces great quantities of Canne to sugar, of Riz, of Tabac, and of fruits, which gave to the province the nickname " El Jardín of Republica" (The garden of the Republic).

Population

Its population was assembled to 527.607 inhabitants in 2001 (INDEC).

That of its agglomeration, Gran San Miguel de Tucumán was then of 738.479 inhabitants, being thus the fifth agglomeration of the country. It had exceeded Gran Plata in the previous decade. San Miguel de Tucumán is also the most populated agglomeration the Argentinian North-West .

In 1991 one had listed 622.324 inhabitants, which gives a growth of 18,7% in 10 years.

Origin and Foundation

The city was founded in 1565 by Diego de Villarroel originally at the southern exit of the Quebrada del Portugués (fault or cañon of Portuguese) in the plain of Ibatín. However water quality was bad there. Moreover the road of the Peru to the Río of Plata changed layout, but also the Indians Calchaquí S made the life difficult. Under the Matt aegis of Fernando of Luna, one then decided to transfer and refonder the city to his current site in 1685, in a place located on the edge of the río Salí or río Dulce.

Cultural heritage and Tourist

In 2000, the Argentinian government declared San Miguel de Tucumán Ville Historical as well for its role in the history of the country as for the architectural heritage and urbanistique.
Most of its streets are decorated beautiful trees periodically in flowers, the such Jacaranda, the Tabebuia, the Orange tree, or the Tipa.

In architecture, one notices the Casa of Gobierno , built fine of the XIXe century, in style Art nouveau, the old woman Cathédrale who preserves colonial elements and contains contributions of the Italian architecture of the XIXe century, the Eglise San Francisco (declared Historic building like the cathedral), the church and brood Santo Domingo , the old woman church of Nuestra Señora of Merced (Notre-Dame of the Grace), the provincial Historical Museum, the Museum of Beautiful arts, the Iramain museum, Put it Padilla, the Instituto Lillo which has very beautiful botanical collections, finally certain private mansions of the end of XIXe and beginning of the XXe century.

Climate

The city has a subtropical climate, with a hot but rather moderate summer, and a cold moderate winter (snow falls there sometimes, as in 2005), so that it made there finally much less heat that in other places of the sphere to similar latitudes. This relative softness estival is due less to altitude (500 Mr.) that with frequent cold faces which brings winds pampéens since the the Antarctic.

Water resources

They are abundant sights good precipitations of the surrounding mountains. The area is in fact a true oasis. Moreover the basement comprises a rather surface ground water, whose level tends to assemble these last years, causing even problems during the construction of foundations of buildings.

See too

the site concerning the Cathedral of San Miguel de Tucumán

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