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Santa Victoria Oeste is a municipality and head of the Santa Victoria Department, at the northwest corner of the province of Salta, Argentina, between mountains and valleys on the border with the
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, 540 km from the city of Salta.Ministerio del Interior
It lies on the western edge of the jungles of the
Yungas The Yungas ( Aymara ''yunka'' warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua ''yunka'' warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends int ...
, north of the province of Salta, in a spot where the woods begin to merge at each step with grasslands Prepuna emerges as a vision the people, at 2,400
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. The village is situated between the mountains, west of the hills Bravo and San Jose, and east, the ridge of hills Shipyards, Paraguay and Vallecito, a cover lifted into the Yungas forests. And at the intersection of rivers Acoyte and La Huerta.


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Populated places in Salta Province {{Salta-geo-stub