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(''capital federal''). These provinces have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Provinces are then divided into , which is divided into ''partidos''. GEOGRAPHY See Also: Geography of Argentina The country is usually divided in 6 different regions as seen in the adjacent table, though some separate the Pampas in ''Pampas' plains'' and ''Pampas' sierras''.
Even though there are provinces that belong to more than one region, they are shown here within the most representative region. In the Tucumán province, the smallest of Argentina, coexist 3 regions: the Pampas to the south, Gran Chaco to the northeast, and Argentine Northwest . THE LOCATION OF THE PROVINCES # Catamarca # Chaco # Chubut # Córdoba # Corrientes # Entre Ríos # Formosa # Jujuy # La Pampa # La Rioja # Mendoza # Misiones # Neuquén # Río Negro # Salta # San Juan # San Luis # Santa Cruz # Santa Fe # Santiago Del Estero # Tierra Del Fuego, Antarctica, And South Atlantic Islands # Tucumán
DEMOGRAPHICS See Also: Demographics of Argentina Table of provinces with Population, Area and Density, and the associated rankings (rnk) among the 23 provinces and the federal district of Buenos Aires city. note 1:without claims on Falkland/Malvinas Islands or Argentine Antarctica . POLITICS The internal products of the provinces are merge into the national product, and then the national budget is decided, including what percentage of it is given to each province. Provinces are free to choose their own utilisation of the assigned percentage of the national product. Each province has also its own government, with a governor, a senate and a deputy chamber. It is not uncommon though, for the national government to ''intervene'' a province under internal instability or after a corruption scandal, designating an intervenor to replace the local government until the situation normalised. Many provinces have had, or still have, governments controlled by a single family. This is the case of the ''Rodriguez Saá'' {Link without Title} in , and many others, often involved in corruption or criminal scandals that are never solved, such as the murder of '' María Soledad Case '' in Catamarca. HISTORY See Also: History of Argentina The north of Argentina was the first part of the present country to be explored by the Spanish Colonisation , searching for the routes that would allow them to bring the gold and silver extracted in the Viceroyalty Of Peru to the port of Buenos Aires . Santiago Del Estero , in the year 1553 , was the first city founded in the territory with such ends, but lost its importance when Tucumán and Salta replaced it as mid-stops to the Atlantic Coast when these two cities secured from the aboriginal attacks, and economically strengthened. The centre of the country was also soon explored and inhabited, being the most important of the first founded cities the city of Córdoba , that became not only a political but also cultural centre with the creation of the first university, the Universidad Nacional De Córdoba in 1622. Most capital cities of the centre-northern Argentina were founded before the year 1600, except for Santa Rosa in La Pampa Province , and Resistencia in Chaco Province . To the south of the Colorado River , the Patagonia reminded under control of the aboriginals. The river itself served as natural frontier. It was not until the infamous Roca 's Conquest Of The Desert , started in 1879, when the southern part of Argentina was conquered in what meant the near annihilation of the aboriginal people living in these lands. The current political division of the provinces of Patagonia was set in 1884 and has not been changed since then, except between 1944 and 1955 when a stripe covering the southern part of Chubut Province and the northern part of Santa Cruz Province was named ''Comodoro Rivadavia Military Zone''. But the ''National Territories'' didn't have provincial status until the 20th century. They where named provinces in 1957, except for Tierra Del Fuego Province named in 1990. Due to the late conquest of the south of the country and the cold weather that reigns in it, most people live in the central or northern provinces, but recent immigration to the south, mainly from Buenos Aires Province and Buenos Aires city, is demising this difference. SEE ALSO
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