Rosario de la Frontera is a city in the center-south 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 26,174 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the

Rosario de la Frontera Department Rosario de la Frontera is a department of the province of Salta (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 ...

. It is located on National Route 9, by the

Horcones River The Horcones River (Spanish, Río Horcones ) is a river of Argentina. It is a tributary of the Salado River. See also *List of rivers of Argentina This is a list of rivers of Argentina. Longest Rivers By drainage basin This list is arrang ...

Climate

Rosario de la Frontera has a dry-winter

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° ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

''Cwa''), characterised by very warm and uncomfortably humid summers alongside pleasant to warm, dry winters with cold mornings and occasional

frost Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) ...

References

* Populated places in Salta Province Populated places established in 1776 {{Salta-geo-stub