Maipú Department is a department and municipality located in the north west 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 department covers and a population of 153,600 (); its capital is
Maipú.
The department was created in 1858 and named in memory of the
Battle of Maipú
The Battle of Maipú ( es, Batalla de Maipú) was a battle fought near Santiago, Chile on April 5, 1818, between South American rebels and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence. The Patriot rebels led by Argentine general Jo ...
, which took place in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, 1818 during the South American Wars of Independence.
Districts
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Maipú
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Coquimbito
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Cruz de Piedra
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Fray Luis Beltrán
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General Gutiérrez
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General Ortega
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Las Barrancas
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Lunlunta
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Luzuriaga
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Rodeo del Medio
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Russell
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San Roque
Sport
Maipú is home to
Deportivo Maipú
Club Deportivo Maipú, mostly known as Deportivo Maipú is an Argentine football club based in the city of Maipú, Mendoza. The team currently plays in Primera Nacional
Primera Nacional (usually called simply Nacional B, in English "National B ...
, a
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club that play in the regionalised
3rd Division.
See also
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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 ...
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Independence of Chile
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Independence of Argentina
What today is commonly referred as the Independence of Argentina was declared on July 9, 1816, by the Congress of Tucumán. In reality, the congressmen who were assembled in Tucumán declared the independence of the United Provinces of Sou ...
External links
Municipal website(Spanish)
Club Deportivo Maipú(Spanish)
Wine regions of Argentina
Departments of Mendoza Province
1858 establishments in Argentina
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