Sarmiento is a

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

located in the south west of San Juan Province in

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. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 19,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is

Media Agua Media Agua is a town in San Juan Province, Argentina. It is the headquarters of the municipal authorities of department Sarmiento and one of the more important towns in the southern San Juan area and within the Tulum Valley, the province's most ...

, which is located around from the

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Geography

Sarmiento is located in the center south of the San Juan Province, bordering the province of Mendoza, 59 kilometers from the city of San Juan, has an area of 2,782 km ² Its boundaries are: * To the north: the departments Zonda, and

Rawson Rawson may refer to: Places *Rawson, Chubut, the capital of Chubut Province, Argentina *Rawson Department, Chubut, Argentina *Rawson Department, San Juan, Argentina **Villa Krause, also named Rawson, the capital city of the department * Rawson, Vic ...

Pocito * To the south: the Province of Mendoza * To the east: the department May 25 * To the west: with the department Calingasta Relief The department Sarmiento has a mountainous relief to the west, which belongs to the formation of the foothills, piedmont, formed by sediment that give rise to the river of the arrow and a plain spill east, at the San Juan River area Valley Tulum. Riegan area of the river water, the dry river, the San Juan River, the stream of marshes and artificially concrete channels

Economy

Sarmiento has an area of 9,192 hectares devoted to

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

, which highlights, vine crops,

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s, vegetables such as garlic, onions and

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es, cereals and fodder crops, forest and

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how melon and watermelon, the latter two are products Recognized throughout the province for its quality and quantity. The department Sarmiento was positively received by the Agricultural Promotion Act passed in the province, thanks to today there are plantations with table grapes, grape fine, raisins,

wine Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...

, fruit carozo, nuggets of fruit, dried fruit, etc.. From the point of view ore in mining department there, mainly limestone and its derivatives in the industry (Cal). It is the activity that characterizes western Sarmiento, more specifically the town of Los Berros. In the case of industry, dominated by the winemaking industry, with many wineries and as far north as the department locates a factory called "Loads Minerals San Juan, where the raw materials for making paint {{coord, 32, 00, S, 68, 31, W, type:landmark_source:USNO/HMNAO, display=title Departments of San Juan Province, Argentina