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La Banda is a city in the Province of Santiago Del Estero , Argentina . It has about 95,000 inhabitants as per the , making it the second largest in the province. It is the head town of the Banda Department .

La Banda is located only 8 km away from the provincial capital Santiago Del Estero , separated from it by the course of the Dulce River , which is crossed by two connecting bridges. The two cities form a Metropolitan Area with about 280,000 inhabitants. Close to it, the Dulce is turned into an artificial lake by the Los Quiroga Dam .

Besides the access to National Route 9 through Santiago del Estero, the city is linked to Tucumán and to Buenos Aires by a weekly Train service of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre .

La Banda is the birthplace of the infamous former provincial governor and '' Caudillo '' Carlos Juárez .


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