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La Rioja
Province La Rioja
Department Capital
Location 29°26′ S 66°51′ W
Elevation 543 m AMSL
Population 146,411
Phone code +54 3822
CPA base F5300
Mayor Ricardo C. This is a list of cities in Argentina. For a more exhaustive list of cities in a particular province see the main article linked to in each applicable section For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains La Rioja is a one of the Provinces of Argentina and is located in the west of the country Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks General phone calls within Argentina In Argentina, changes were made to area codes in 1999 when the telephone network was split up into three different areas with The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least one unique alphanumeric Postal code to each Municipality. ISO 3166-2AR is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Quintela
Party Justicialist Party
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La Rioja is the capital city of the Argentine province of La Rioja, located on the east of the province. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral The Justicialist Party ( Spanish: Partido Justicialista, PJ) is a Peronist political party in Argentina, and the largest component For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains La Rioja is a one of the Provinces of Argentina and is located in the west of the country The city has a population of almost 150,000 as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population National Statistics and Censuses Institute ( Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC is the Argentine government agency responsible

La Rioja is located on the foot of the Velasco Sierras, 1,167 km from Buenos Aires, and 430 km from Córdoba. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern Córdoba, abbreviated as CBA, is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the The Capitán Vicente Almandos Amonacid Airport (IATA: IRJ, ICAO: SANL) at coordinates 29°23′21″S, 66°48′09″W is 7 kilometres away from La Rioja, and serves regular flights to Buenos Aires and Catamarca. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around

The weather is dry and semi-desertic with, average temperatures of 5 °C to 20 °C in winter and 21 °C to 35 °C in summer, but with maximum temperatures of more that 40 °C. The Celsius Temperature scale was previously known as the centigrade scale.

The economy of the entire province is historically tied to cattle farming and agriculture, as well as wine production. Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family Agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants and fungi and the raising of domesticated Animals The study of agriculture Argentine wine, as with some aspects of Argentine cuisine, has its roots in Spain. But the beginning of the 1970s brought to the city an industrialisation thrust that makes La Rioja today an important centre in Argentina's pharmacological industry.

Former president Isabel Martínez de Perón was born in La Rioja. María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born February 4, 1931) better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón or Isabel Perón, is a former Another former president, Carlos Menem, was born nearby. Carlos Saúl Menem Akil (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999

History

Juan Ramirez de Velasco founded the city with the name Todos los Santos de la Nueva Rioja on May 20, 1591, while he was the Governor of the Territories of Tucumán, in homage to the region of La Rioja in Spain. Events 325 - The First Council of Nicaea &ndash the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held Tucumán is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country La Rioja is a province and autonomous community of northern Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

The city was the only settlement of some importance in the territory of the present province, and when an earthquake severely damaged the city in 1894, it had only 8,000 inhabitants. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In was not until the 1970s that the population of the city, and of the province, started growing considerably.

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