Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña (normally known as Sáenz Peña) is a city in the . It is the second largest in the province. It is located west-northwest of the provincial capital
Resistencia, on the main rail and road route across northern Argentina to
Salta
Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Salta Province, the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the List of cities in Argentina, 7th most-populous ...
. The city has a population of 76,377 for the
urban area
An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbani ...
(''localidad'') and 88,164 for the whole municipality ().
Sáenz Peña was founded in 1912 and has developed as a commercial and industrial centre serving the surrounding agricultural region of the
Gran Chaco
The Gran Chaco or simply Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion o ...
plains.
Climate
Transport
The city is served by
Primer Teniente Jorge Eduardo Casco Airport.
File:Saenz Peña Chaco 3550.jpg, Residential section
File:Saenz Peña Chaco 3546.jpg, Commercial district
See also
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National University of the Chaco Austral
References
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Populated places in Chaco Province
Cities in Argentina
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