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SALTA , a See also:

city of See also:Argentina, See also:capital of a See also:province of the same name, and see of a bishopric, on a small tributary (the Arias) of the Pasage, or Juramento, 976 M. by See also:rail N.N.W. of Buenos Aires. Pop. (1904, estimated) 18,oco. Salta is built on an open See also:plain 3560 ft. above the See also:sea, nearly enclosed with mountains. The See also:climate is warm and changeable, malarial in summer. The city is laid out regularly, with broad, paved streets and several parks. Some of the more important public buildings See also:face on the plaza See also:mayor. There are no manufactures of importance. Salta was once largely interested in the Bolivian See also:trade, and is still a See also:chief distributing centre for the settlements of the Andean See also:plateau. Near the city is the battlefield where See also:General Belgrano won the first victory from the See also:Spanish forces (1812) in the See also:War of See also:Independence. There is a large See also:mestizo See also:element in the See also:population, and the Spanish element still retains many of the characteristics of its colonial ancestors. In Salta Spanish is still spoken with the See also:long-See also:drawn intonations and melodious " 11 " of See also:southern See also:Spain.

Salta was founded in 1582 by See also:

Governor Abreu under the See also:title of See also:San Clemente de Nueva Sevilla, but the site was changed two years later and the new See also:settlement was called San Felipe de See also:Lerma. In the 17th See also:century the name Salta came into See also:vogue.

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