Las Breñas is a city in
Chaco Province
Chaco (; Wichi: ''To-kós-wet''), officially the Province of Chaco ( es, provincia del Chaco ), is one of the 23 provinces in Argentina. Its capital and largest city, is Resistencia. It is located in the north-east of the country.
It is borde ...
, Argentina. It is the head town of the
Nueve de Julio Department.
The economy of Las Breñas is centrad around agriculture and farming. It is home to an
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria
The National Agricultural Technology Institute ( es, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria), commonly known as INTA, is an Argentine federal extension agency in charge of the generation, adaptation and diffusion of technologies, knowledge ...
facility.
Climate
The climate of Las Breñas is classified as
subtropical
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical zone, geographical and Köppen climate classification, climate zones to the Northern Hemisphere, north and Southern Hemisphere, south of the tropics. Geographically part of the Geographical z ...
with dry winters,
[ which under the ]Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
would be classified as a humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...
(''Cwa'').[ Summers are characterized by very high temperatures; the highest temperature recorded was on December 10, 1970. In contrast winters are mild with cool nights and temperatures can be very low with the lowest temperature recorded being on July 20, 1957.][ With the average first and last dates of frost being May 31 and September 3 respectively, Las Breñas has a frost free period of 256 days although frosts as early as April 15 and as late as October 6 has occurred.][
The average annual precipitation is with most of the precipitation occurring during the warmer months.][ From May to September, which are the cooler months, they are dry, with these 5 months only registering 14% of the total annual precipitation.][ However, annual precipitation from year to year is highly variable, ranging from a low of in 2008 to a high of in 1986.][
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References
External links
Municipal website
Populated places in Chaco Province
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