General Pedernera is a department of

San Luis Province San Luis () is a province of Argentina located near the geographical center of the country (on the 32° South parallel). Neighboring provinces are, from the north clockwise, La Rioja, Córdoba, La Pampa, Mendoza and San Juan. History The cit ...

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 ...

. With an area of it borders to the north with the department of

Coronel Pringles Coronel Pringles () is a city in the south of the Buenos Aires Province in Argentina, situated near the mountains of Pillahuincó. It is the government seat of the Coronel Pringles Partido. In 1882, the provincial government of Buenos Aires Pro ...

and

Chacabuco Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlik ...

, to the east with Córdoba Province, to the south with Gobernador Dupuy and to the west with

Juan Martín de Pueyrredón Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O'Dogan (December 18, 1777 – March 13, 1850) was an Argentine general and politician of the early 19th century. He was appointed Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata after the Argentine ...

. Its name pays homage to Lieutenant-general Juan Esteban Pedernera who fought with the

Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers The Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers ( es, Regimiento de Granaderos a Caballo) is the name of two Argentine Army regiments of two different time periods: a historic regiment that operated from 1812 to 1826, and a modern cavalry unit that was organiz ...

during the Argentine War of Independence and became the interim president of the Argentine Confederation. On October 14, 2009, the government of San Luis passed the decree of need and urgency No. 2884 MGJyC 09, which created the municipality of the Ranquel people-nation in 66.000 hectares of the General Pedernera Department, so as to provide a settlement for members of the

Ranquel The Ranquel or Rankülche are an indigenous tribe from the northern part of La Pampa Province, Argentina, in South America.Tapia, Alicia Haydée"Archaeological Perspectives on the Ranquel Chiefdoms in the North of the Dry Pampas, in the Eighteent ...

native people. In addition, a delegate was designed to manage the municipality, organized according to the traditions and customs of the Ranquel people. According to the 2010 national census, there are 125.470 inhabitants in the department.

Municipalities

* Juan Jorba * Juan Llerena * Justo Daract * La Punilla * Lavaisse * San José del Morro *

Villa Mercedes Villa Mercedes is a city in the province of San Luis, Argentina. It lies on the center-east of the province, on the left-hand banks of the Quinto River, 32 km from the border with Córdoba, on National Route 148, and near the intersection ...

* Villa Reynolds * Villa Salles

Villages

* Caldenadas * Chalanta * Coronel Alzogaray * Crámer * El Centenario * El Durazno * Gloria de Dios * La Aguada * La Angelina * La Esquina * La Portada * Las Isletas * Las Vizcacheras * Liborio Luna * Pedernera * Pioneros Siglo XXI * Río Quinto * Soven * Travesía

References

External links

Provincial website
Departments of San Luis Province {{SanLuisAR-geo-stub