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Tucumán

province, Argentina
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Tucumán, provincia (province), northwestern Argentina. It is the second smallest of the country’s provinces. The city of San Miguel de Tucumán, in central Tucumán, is the provincial capital. The western fringe of the province is occupied by the Sierra del Aconquija, which consists of northeast-southwest–trending outlying ridges of the Andes Mountains with elevations of 8,000 to 18,000 feet (2,400 to 5,500 metres). The eastern part of the province, by contrast, is flat, alluvial, and agriculturally fertile. Tucumán owes its prosperity to the Sierra del Aconquija, which catches the warm moist winds from the east. The resulting abundant rain feeds a ...(100 of 337 words)

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