Tucumán (Province) - Tucumán (Provinz)

The province Tucuman is lying in Andean northwestArgentina. It is the smallest province in the country, but has a high population density and many different landscapes.

Regions

Tucumán is described here as a single travel region because of its small size. However, the landscape is very diverse. So you can find the following regions:

• The Valle Calchaquí in the far west
• The Sierra de Aconquija, a wooded mountain range in the central part
• The Valley of the Río Salí, very densely populated and characterized by tropical agriculture
• The one that is also used for agriculture Hilly landscape in the east that in the Chaco transforms

places

• San Miguel de Tucuman, 800,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area, old colonial city.
• Concepción, 60,000 inhabitants, second largest city
• Tafí del Valle, 15,000 inhabitants, most famous tourist place
• Amaichá del Valle, 5,000 inhabitants, the largest Indian community in Argentina with the Pachamama festival and arguably the best museum about the culture of the Argentine northwest

Other goals

• Quilmes ruins (see Santa María del Yocavil), old Diaguita Fort, most famous archaeological site in the country.
• Los Cardones National Park, very wild and pristine national park in the southwest, hardly any infrastructure.
• El Cadillal reservoir in the north of the province

background

Argentine independence was declared in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1816. On Independence Day, July 9th, the city officially becomes the country's capital for one day.

Today the province is together with the neighboring province Santiago del Estero the poorest in the country - in the economic crisis of 2002 over 20% of the children were malnourished, a figure like in Africa! You hardly notice this in the center of the city of Tucumán, but on the periphery, e.g. in the explosively growing Tucuman suburb of Alderetes, the average wage is less than a fifth of the Argentine average, well below the poverty line. The cause of this misery goes back more than 50 years: At that time, the region was booming as a sugar supplier to the world. However, since poorer countries began to compete and prices fell, many sugar factories had to close and unemployment rose sharply. Although the region also has oil and a rich industry, these branches of the economy are not enough to break the dependency on sugar cultivation and thus improve the situation in the region.

language

The Spanish of the province is similar to that of Cordoba: a melodious pronunciation and the typical hybrid "rsch" are typical.

getting there

There is an international airport in San Miguel de Tucuman. However, it is only slowly recovering from the Argentina crisis and has drastically thinned the connections. The provincial capital is of Buenos Aires and Rosario can also be reached by train

mobility

The bus connections between the individual parts of the province are very close on the main routes. In the Tucumán Valley, for example, one can almost speak of city bus frequencies.

Tourist Attractions

activities

kitchen

nightlife

security

climate

The province has three different climate zones: the hot and humid plain in the east, in which the capital Tucumán is located and the temperatures in the summer half-year are mostly over 35 degrees, then the also very humid but cooler area of ​​the subtropical cloud forests in the Sierra de Aconquija, and finally the very dry climate of the Valle Calchaquí.

literature

Web links

• http://www.tucuman.gov.ar - Official website of the Province of Tucumán