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 Santiago Del Estero - LoveToKnow 1911
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, a province of Argentina, bounded N. by Salta and the Chaco territory, E. by the Chaco and Santa Fe, S. by Cordoba, and W. by Catamarca, Tucuman and Salta.
The province is traversed by the Tucuman extension of the Buenos Aires and Rosario railway, by a French line from Santa Fe to Tucuman, and by a branch of the Central Northern (Cordoba section) railway.
The provincial capital, Santiago Del Estero, is on the left bank of the Rio Dulce, 745 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Santiago_Del_Estero   (388 words)

  
 Santiago del Estero Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country.
Neighbouring provinces are from the north clockwise Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.
Santiago's musical heritage is one of the most important cultural aspects of the city, with typical folklore chacarera and zamba.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santiago_del_Estero_Province   (912 words)

  
 Santiago Spain -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Santiago is home to nearly a third of the country's population, or 4,668,473 according to the 2002 census.
Benito Santiago Rivera (born March 9, 1965), a native of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, is a MLB baseball catcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Santiago failed to match all the hype that subsequently followed him, and his hitting was not helped by his poor plate discipline.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/129/santiago-spain.html   (1541 words)

  
 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO PROVINCE
Santiago del Estero is a typical land-locked province, bounded by the provinces of Salta and Chaco on the north; the provinces of Chaco and Santa Fe on the east; the province of Córdoba on the south; and the provinces of Catamarca, Tucumán, and Salta on the west.
Santiago del Estero, whose capital has the same name, is divided into 27 departments, with separate political and administrative powers.
The major activity of Santiago del Estero is agriculture, basically horticulture, cotton, soya and surghum.
www.argentour.com /santiagodelesteroing.html   (345 words)

  
 Santiago del Estero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santiago del Estero is a city in northern Argentina, the capital of the Santiago del Estero Province.
Santiago del Estero is the oldest city founded by Spanish settlers in Argentina that still exists as such.
Santiago del Estero and its region are home to about 100,000 speakers of the local variety of Quechua, making this the southernmost outpost of the language of the Incas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santiago_del_Estero   (458 words)

  
 DCR Expects to Rate Santiago del Estero's Series 05 Notes 'BB-'
Santiago del Estero is one of 23 provinces of the Republic of Argentina.
DCR views favorably the province's low debt levels and manageable debt-service burden, demonstrated strong political will of the current provincial government to contain expenditures, and full privatization of public enterprises in compliance with the spirit of the fiscal and economic reforms of the Argentine federal government.
Additional credit support is provided by the recent agreement between Santiago del Estero and the Argentine federal government, under which the federal government is committed to transfer to the province a total of Ps.128 million during the 1999 to 2006 period.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/06-15-1999/0000963650   (827 words)

  
 HotelStore.net - Hotel Reservations / Reservas de Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Founded in 1553, Santiago del Estero may be regarded as one of the oldest cities in the country.
Santiago del Estero has a rich history, a wealthy past dating back from the times of the Spanish conquest.
This 114,250-hectare unit is located in the northern area of Santiago del Estero province, in the department called Copo, at the heart of the Argentine Chaco.
www.goargentina.net /argentina/santiago.shtml   (454 words)

  
 Minera Alumbrera Accused of Co-Responsibility in Pollution of Río Hondo Reservoir
The community of Termas de Río Hondo, in the Province of Santiago del Estero, fears that their economic lifeblood, tourism, is threatened by the industrial effluents discharged from the north by the sugar industry through the Salí-Dulce river system.
The Governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora, has stated that the government of Tucumán should be compelled to begin a program of clean production for the sixty companies which have not done so already.
The Public Defender of of the province of Santiago del Estero, Darío Alarcón, complaintant in the case against the mining company (controlled by the global miner Xstrata Plc) in the provincial courts, said yesterday that the company "is attempting a cover-up" by affirming that it has not contaminated the reservoir of the Río Hondo.
www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press768.htm   (2408 words)

  
 Santiago del Estero - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO [Santiago del Estero] city (1991 pop.
It is a transportation hub of the Argentine Chaco and a commercial center for cattle raised in the region.
Founded in 1553, Santiago del Estero is one of the oldest cities of Argentina.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sntgoest.html   (330 words)

  
 Case Study 12. Alfalfa hay production by small-scale farmers in the Chaco - A semi-arid region in Santiago del Estero ...
The province of Santiago del Estero, in the heart of the semi-arid Chaco region in northwest Argentina, has a variable climate, both within and among years, because of erratic rainfall.
The main productive activities in Santiago el Estero are cattle rearing, forest development (for charcoal, poles and railway sleepers), and agricultural crops such as cotton, maize, soybean, beans and alfalfa, grown with or without irrigation.
The area is far from major towns, such as Santiago del Estero (240 km) and Tucumán (140 km), and from the province of Salta (100 km).
www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/X7660E/x7660e0r.htm   (3090 words)

  
 República Argentina - Secretaría de Turismo
From the City of Buenos Aires to Santiago del Estero and Termas de Río Hondo.
Distances from Santiago del Estero: Buenos Aires 1,150 Km, Córdoba 435 Km, San Miguel de Tucumán 159 Km, Mendoza 1,152 Km.
SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, THE OLDEST CITY IN THE COUNTRY.
www.turismo.gov.ar /eng/atra/tour/MAPAS/sgo.htm   (371 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Santiago del Estero Province Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The province has a population of 804,457, and covers an area of 136,351 km²...
The province has a population of 804,457 (2001), and covers an area of 136,351 km²;.
Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.
www.ipedia.com /santiago_del_estero_province.html   (128 words)

  
 Argentina 2000: Country Report
Unidentified individuals threatened and harassed employees of the Córdoba daily La Voz del Interior in response to the paper's allegations of corruption and misrule in the northern province of Santiago del Estero.
La Voz del Interior subsequently filed a complaint, but Santiago del Estero law enforcement authorities have yet to identify the vehicle or its occupant.
Santiago del Estero Province is run by Governor Carlos Juárez of the Justicialist Party (PJ).
www.cpj.org /attacks00/americas00/Argentina.html   (2006 words)

  
 Administración de Parques Nacionales
Copo National Park is located in the northwest of Santiago del Estero province, in the Copo Department.
The quebracho´s devastating exploitation and the cattle action made an important improverishment of the wild forests, and stopped its natural regeneration.
The changes are really big: in the beginning of the 20 th century the 80% of the Santiago del Estero province was covered by scrublands; nowadays only the 20% of the province has quebracho scrublands.
www.parquesnacionales.gov.ar /i/03_ap/09_copo_PN/09_copo_PN.htm   (383 words)

  
 Tiempo Climate Newswatch, Youth and the Environment
The areas are the Province of Santiago del Estero (Argentina), Aohan County of Chifeng Municipality of Inner Mongolia (China) and Tete Province (Mozambique).
The project will be implemented in the province of Santiago del Estero, located in the north of Argentina, in one of the poorest and least developed areas in the country.
These were selected on the basis of their potential and capacity to reflect different provincial realities, with a view to progressive replication of the experience to the rest of the province.
www.cru.uea.ac.uk /tiempo/newswatch/xp_feature040618.htm   (2709 words)

  
 Santiago del Estero
The Andean Northwest province of Santiago del Estero consists of the mostly flat landscapes of the Gran Chaco.
province is most famous for its thermal pools and spas.
The climate in Santiago del Estero is subtropical, hot and dry.
www.the-allure-of-argentina.com /santiagodelestero.html   (261 words)

  
 Thermal Water Rio Hondo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This transcendental hydraulic work for the province was put into operation the 1st January 1968, on the course of the river Dulce.
Its name derives from the water which they collected in vasijas the natives who inhabited the northwest of the province influenced by the incaica culture, to that called Inti Yacu that it means "water of the Sun" or Yacu 'Rupaj that it means "hot water".
It is born in the limits of the provinces of Salta and Tucuman, it crosses the Province of Santiago del Estero in southwestern direction and it culminates in the lagoon of Mar Chiquita in Province of Cordoba.
www.inargentinatourism.com.ar /en/santiago_del_estero   (727 words)

  
 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO - Online Information article about SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
sea-level, and in the vicinity of large swamps (esteros) bordering the Rio Dulce, from which its name is derived.
Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
The city was founded in 1553 by Francisco de Aguirre and was the first capital of the province of Tucuman, the earliest settled of the La See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SANTIAGO_DEL_ESTERO.html   (536 words)

  
 SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO - Article en ligne de l'information environ SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO
PROVINCE (provincia de Lat.; peut-être une contraction de providentia)
croix la province dans la même direction générale, et est perdu dans les grands marais salins de Porongos, sur la frontière de Cordoue.
Dans 18ò Santiago del Estero est devenu une province séparée.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/SAC_SAR/SANTIAGO_DEL_ESTERO.html   (906 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert
New York, August 4, 2000 --- In an apparent attempt to silence press criticisms of local officials in the province of Santiago del Estero in northern Argentina, unidentified individuals have threatened and harassed two local newspapers, according to CPJ sources and local press reports.
The newspapers received anonymous phone threats in response to their investigations of Carlos Juárez, the governor of Santiago del Estero, and his wife, Mercedes Aragonés, who is also the provincial vice-governor.
Meanwhile, the Santiago del Estero-based daily El Liberal has told CPJ that its staff was harassed after they published leaked official intelligence reports that suggested Juárez's involvement in an espionage ring set up to monitor opposition members and local church leaders.
www.cpj.org /news/2000/Argentina04august00na.html   (354 words)

  
 IFEX ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On 1 July, Gómez - who distributes the Córdoba daily "La Voz del Interior" in the province of Santiago del Estero - was cut-off by a car minutes after delivering the daily edition of the paper.
The articles were part of the debate unleashed after 18 June, when the governor prohibited the performance of the play "The Postman" ("El Cartero"), by Pablo Neruda, at the 25 May Theatre (Teatro 25 de Mayo) in the capital of Santiago del Estero, because of a scene containing nudity.
A Santiago del Estero radio station that reported on the issue received a bomb threat.
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/10880   (594 words)

  
 Chaco Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chaco is an Argentine province located on the north of the country, near the border with Paraguay.
The province is bounded by Salta and Santiago del Estero to the west, Formosa to the north and east, Corrientes and the Republic of Paraguay to the southeast and Santa Fe to the south.
The province is divided in 25 departments (spanish departamentos).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaco_Province   (695 words)

  
 IGPP Broadband Seismic Data Collection Center | Special Events | Santiago Del Estero Province, Argentina - September ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Santiago Del Estero Province, Argentina - September 07, 2004
The Anza group at the University of California San Diego operates a broadband seismograph network consisting of 17 three component broadband seismograph stations centered near Anza, California (see map).
View the most recent map of local events near San Diego or a slightly wider regional view of events recoded by ANZA, or a map of events recoded by ANZA from around the globe.
eqinfo.ucsd.edu /special_events/2004/251/a/index.shtml   (294 words)

  
 Peuples Solidaires, une fédération qui se met en 4 pour la solidarité - 296 - ARGENTINA - SOY BEANS VERSUS LIFE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is the case in Santiago del Estero, the poorest province in Argentina, where the peasant movement MOCASE is confronting a firm which - in connivance with the police, paramilitaries and local judges - wants to get its hands on over 150,000 hectares.
Consequently, as in Santiago del Estero, peasant families are dispossessed of the land they have occupied for generations and where they have their homes, their dispensaries, their schools, etc.
In Santiago del Estero province it is in the forefront of the movement to organize peasant families’ expression and mobilization.
www.peuples-solidaires.org /article727.html   (1612 words)

  
 Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Campo del Cielo
The meteorite was found by a rural 50 meters from the place where the grand iron meteorite El Toba was found in the year 1923.
It is in the Museum of Rosario City, (Santa Fe province, Argentina, where is exhibited in one of its square, in the open air.
The meteorite was found near the grand mass El Motaco and was brought in the year of 1937, as a donation for the Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
tin.er.usgs.gov /meteor/metbull.php?code=5247   (609 words)

  
 RSF - Letters of protest - Bolivia - August 3rd 2000
On 2 August, provincial government representatives suggested that "malicious individuals", who were not linked in any way to the governmental office, must be responsible for the threats.
At the same time, since the middle of July, "El Liberal" daily, published in Santiago del Estero, has been receiving threatening telephone calls and three of its journalists have been the target of a defamation campaign.
This intimidation is likely due to the daily having published a report on alleged irregularities committed by the provincial administration.
www.rsf.org /rsf/html/amer/cplp/lp/040800.html   (233 words)

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