Luján de Cuyo is a
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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located in the northwest of
Mendoza Province
Mendoza, officially Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the republic o ...
in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 104,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is
Luján de Cuyo
Luján de Cuyo is the district capital of the Luján de Cuyo Department located in the west of the Mendoza Province of Argentina. It forms part of the Greater Mendoza metropolitan area.
Wine
It was the first delineated appellation for the purpos ...
, which is located around from the
Federal Capital
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.
Districts
*Agrelo
*Carrodilla
*Chacras de Coria
*El Carrizal
*La Puntilla
*Las Compuertas
*Luján de Cuyo
*Mayor Drummond
*Perdriel
*
Potrerillos
*Ugarteche
*Vistalba
See also
*
Mendoza wine
Mendoza Province is Argentina's most important wine region, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the country's entire wine production. Located in the eastern foothills of the Andes, in the shadow of Aconcagua, vineyards are planted at some of the ...
External links
Municipal Site(Spanish)
Satellelite Photograph of Luján de Cuyo
(Spanish)
1855 establishments in Argentina
Departments of Mendoza Province
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