Trenque Lauquen is a city in the west of the

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, Argentina, from

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and from the border with the province of

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, on the intersection of National Routes 5 and 33. Trenque Lauquen is the largest city of the district (''partido'') of the same name, and has a population of about 40,000 inhabitants as per the . The name of the city means "Round Lagoon" in the

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language. It was founded on 12 April 1876 by the advancing troops of Colonel Conrado Excelso Villegas, under orders from the Minister of War

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, as the center of operations of the North Division of the Border Commandancy, during the

Conquest of the Desert The Conquest of the Desert ( es, Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca in the 1870s with the intention of establishing dominance over the Patagonian Desert, inhabited primar ...

(the campaign to subject the territories originally occupied by aboriginal tribes to the government of Buenos Aires). The ''partido'' was officially created on 28 July 1886. The city is served by Ñanco Lauquen Airport.

Climate

Similar to the rest of the

Pampas The Pampas (from the qu, pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazi ...

, Trenque Lauquen has a

temperate climate In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ranges throughout t ...

. Under the

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system, Trenque Lauquen has 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° ...

(''Cfa'') with hot summers and cool winters.

References

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