San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of
Jujuy Province
Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
Geography
There are three main areas in Jujuy:
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in
northwest Argentina
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. Also, it is the seat of the
Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department
Doctor Manuel Belgrano is a department of Jujuy Province, Argentina
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. It lies near the southern end of the
Humahuaca Canyon where wooded hills meet the lowlands.
Its population at the was 237,751 inhabitants. If its
suburbs are included, this figure rises to around 300,000.
Indec:Instituto Nacional De Estadistica Y Censos De La Republica Argentina
The current mayor is Raúl Jorge.
City information
The city lies on National Route 9 that connects La Quiaca
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with Salta , and it is from Buenos Aires
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. Tourist destinations not far from the city are Tilcara
San Francisco de Tilcara (usually referred to as Tilcara) is a city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, and the head town of the Tilcara Department. It had 6,249 inhabitants at the . Traces of human habitation in the area date back more than 10,00 ...
, Humahuaca
Humahuaca () is a small city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. Since 2003 declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO at the Paris conference.
It has 11,369 inhabitants as per the , and is the principal town (seat) of the Department of Humahuaca. T ...
, and the Calilegua National Park .
Jujuy is located near the Andes
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, at the junction of the Xibi Xibi River and the Río Grande de Jujuy, 1,238 meters above sea level. The weather is humid during the summer and dry and cold during the winter. Temperatures vary widely between day and night.
The city is the provincial government, financial and cultural centre. Most administrative offices related to economic activities that take place in other parts of the province are located here; these activities include petroleum
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extraction and pre-processing, sugarcane and sugar industry ( Ledesma), tobacco
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(El Carmen, south), steel (in nearby Villa Palpalá), citrus
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, and fruit and vegetable production for local consumption.
The city has a colonial city centre including the Cabildo, the cathedral, and colourful Andean carnivals.
The Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport
Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional de Jujuy - Gobernador Horacio Guzmán) is an airport in Jujuy Province, Argentina serving the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. It is the northernmost Argentinian airpo ...
at coordinates , is southeast of the city (in Ciudad Perico) and has regular flights to Buenos Aires
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.
File:Monument to Belgrano, Jujuy.jpg, Monument to Manuel Belgrano
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File:PlazaBelgrano.JPG, Belgrano Square and the Government Palace
File:Cathedrale Jujuy.JPG, Cathedral of St. Francis
File:Jujuy-Capital-P3110030.JPG, Patio of the Cathedral Church
History
After previous attempts in 1565 and 1592, the current city was founded as ''San Salvador de Velazco en el Valle de Jujuy'' on April 19, 1593, by Francisco de Argañarás y Murguía. The settlement initially developed as a strategic site on the mule trade route between San Miguel de Tucumán
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and the silver mines in Potosí, Bolivia.
Reaching its peak importance during the colonial period, San Salvador de Jujuy declined to the status of a remote provincial capital after the Argentine Declaration of Independence in 1816. The town became the capital of Jujuy Province when the latter separated from Salta Province in 1834. The 1863 Jujuy earthquake leveled the town, and it recovered slowly in the following decades. Jujuy began to grow following the arrival of the Northern Central Railway
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in 1900. Its first institution of higher learning, the Economic Sciences Institute, was established in 1959, and was incorporated into the new National University of Jujuy
The National University of Jujuy ( es, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, UNJU) is an Argentine national university, situated in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, capital of Jujuy Province.
Its precursor, the Instituto Superior de Ciencias Económic ...
in 1973. The city was the location of a number of Argentine films
This is an index to pages listing Argentine films ordered by year of release. For an A-Z list, see :Argentine films.
1897-1929
* List of Argentine films before 1930
1930s
*List of Argentine films of 1930
* List of Argentine films of 1931
* List ...
, including '' Veronico Cruz'' (1988) and ''Una estrella y dos cafés'' (2005). The city's impoverished Lower Azopardo neighborhood would later give rise to Milagro Sala
Milagro Amalia Ángela Sala (born January 27, 1964) is a leader of the Tupac Amaru neighborhood association,[''We M ...]
's Indigenist Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Association.
Climate
Jujuy has a humid subtropical climate (''Cwa'', according to the Köppen climate classification
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), mainly because of the altitude. Summers bring warm days at and nights at with frequent thunderstorms. The rest of the year is sunny, with temperatures at about during the day and at night, crisp, dry winters with warm days of and cold nights at , and sunny springs with warm days at and cool nights at . During heat waves, temperatures can sometimes reach but these are not frequent and nights always bring significant cooling, as opposed to many low-lying areas in Northern Argentina. During the winter, temperatures can reach and snow, although rare, may fall on occasion. Precipitation is about , which falls in the form of thunderstorms during the warmest months. The highest temperature recorded was on October 16, 2014 while the lowest temperature recorded was on August 14, 1978.[
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Notable people
* Ana Pelegrín (1938–2008), researcher, writer, and educator
See also
* List of twin towns and sister cities in Argentina
* Yolanda Carenzo (pianist born in San Salvador de Jujuy)
References
External links
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Municipal site
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City tourist and Cultural office
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Digital Newspaper
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Capitals of Argentine provinces
Cities in Argentina
Populated places established in 1593
Populated places in Jujuy Province