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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUCUMAN , a See also:

northern See also:province of See also:Argentina, bounded N. by See also:Salta, E. by See also:Santiago del Estero, S. and W. by See also:Catamarca. See also:Area, 8926 sq. m. Pop. (1895), 215,742; (1904, estimated) 263,079. The Sierra de Aconquija is on the western frontier of the province and there is also broken See also:country in the See also:north, but in the See also:east the country is See also:flat, alluvial and very fertile. The only large See also:river is the Sall, or Dulce, which receives a large number of small streams from the Sierra de Aconquija and flows through Santiago del Estero to the Porongos lagoons on the frontier of See also:Cordoba. The exports are See also:sugar, See also:rum (aguardiente), See also:timber, hides, See also:leather, See also:fruit and Tafi See also:cheese made in an upland valley of the Aconquija.

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