General Güemes, sometimes shortened in Güemes, is a town in the center of the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Salta Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...

, Argentina. It has 47,348 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the General Güemes Department.

Overview

It lies about 45 km east-northeast from the provincial capital

, on National Route 9. Its name is an homage to ''

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Martín Miguel de Güemes Martín Miguel de Güemes (8 February 1785 – 17 June 1821) was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spanish royalist army during the Argentine War of Independence. Biography Güemes was born in Sa ...

(1785–1821), hero of the

Argentine War of Independence The Argentine War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de Argentina, links=no) was a secessionist civil war fought from 1810 to 1818 by Argentine patriotic forces under Manuel Belgrano, Juan José Castelli and José de San Martín a ...

. In 2008, the city gained media attention after

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of a "mysterious

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" were reported.

Transport

General Güemes is the terminus station of narrow gauge train that connects it to

References

External links

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General Güemes
at the Chamber of Deputies of Salta. Populated places in Salta Province Cities in Argentina Argentina Salta Province {{Salta-geo-stub