Provinces of Argentina

Top level administrative division of Argentina

Provinces and an Autonomous City of Argentina

Argentina's provinces. This map includes territorial claims on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and a portion of Antarctica, outlined in red.

Category| Federated state
Location| Argentina
Number| 23 Provinces
1 Autonomous city
Populations| Smallest: Tierra del Fuego Province, 190,641
Largest: Buenos Aires Province, 17,569,053
Areas| Smallest: Tierra del Fuego Province, 21,263 km² (province), Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 203 km²
Largest: Buenos Aires Province, 307,571 km²
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Argentina has 23 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular provincia) and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which serves as the federal capital, as determined by Congress.[1]

The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions and exist under a federal system.

## History

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Main article: History of Argentina

During the War of Independence, cities and their surrounding areas became provinces through local councils (cabildos). This process was finalized during the Anarchy of the Year XX, forming the first 13 provinces.

Jujuy seceded from Salta in 1834, and the thirteen provinces became fourteen. After seceding for a decade, Buenos Aires Province accepted the 1853 Constitution of Argentina in 1861, and its capital city was made a federal territory in 1880.[2]

A law from 1862 designated as national territories those territories under federal control but outside the frontiers of the provinces. In 1884 they served as bases for the establishment of the governorates of Misiones, Formosa, Chaco, La Pampa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego.[3] The agreement about a frontier dispute with Chile in 1900 created the National Territory of Los Andes; its lands were incorporated into Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca in 1943.[2] La Pampa and Chaco became provinces in 1951. Misiones did so in 1953, and Formosa, Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz, in 1955. The last national territory, Tierra del Fuego, became the Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province in 1990.[2] This province nominally includes Argentina's claims to the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and to a segment of Antarctica that overlaps with the British and Chilean claims on that continent.

## Political organization

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See also: List of provincial governors in Argentina and List of provincial legislatures in Argentina

Argentina is a federation of twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires. Provinces are divided for administration purposes into departments and municipalities, except for Buenos Aires Province, which is divided into partidos and localidades. Buenos Aires City itself is divided into communes (comuna) and non-official neighbourhoods (barrios).

Provinces hold all the power that they chose not to delegate to the federal government;[4] they must be representative commonwealths and must not contradict the Constitution.[5] Beyond this, they are fully autonomous: they enact their own constitutions,[6] freely organize their local governments,[7] and own and manage their natural and financial resources.[8] Thus, each province has its own set of provincial laws and justice system, a supreme court, a governor, an autonomous police force, and a congress; in eight provinces, the legislature is bicameral, comprising an upper chamber (the Senate) and a lower chamber (the House of Deputies), while in the remaining fifteen provinces and in Buenos Aires City, it is unicameral.[9][A]

In case of sedition, insurrection, territorial invasion, or any other emerging threats against the laws of the nation on any province or the federal capital, the Congress has the authority to declare a federal intervention on the compromised district,[11] even in the absence of a formal request by the affected part.[12] When Congress is in recess and thus unable to intervene, the President is entitled to decree such intervention, but this executive order is subject to Congressional override upon the Houses' immediate reassembly.[13] Once the intervention is declared the compromised district's government is immediately dissolved—in whole or in part depending on Congressional decision—and the President appoints a representative or intervenor, who will serve for a short time until the emergency is solved. Since 1983 four provinces were intervened, namely Catamarca, Corrientes (twice), Santiago del Estero (twice), and Tucumán.[14]

During the 20th century, some provinces have had governments that were traditionally controlled by a single family (i.e. the Saadi family in Catamarca, or the Sapag family in Neuquén); in one case, it is still the same situation as of 2009: the province of San Luis was ruled almost without a break by the Rodríguez Saá family since December 1983.[15]

Article 61 of the Constitution of the city of Buenos Aires states that "Suffrage is free, equal, secret, universal, compulsory and not accumulative. The foreign residents enjoy this right, with the correlative obligations, on equal terms with Argentine citizens registered in this district, in the terms established by the law."[16]

## List of provinces

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Provinces of Argentina[17] Flag  | Province  | Capital  | Secondary capital[18][B] | HASC subdivision code | Population (2022)[19] | Area | Density per
km2

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N/A  | N/A  | Autonomous City of
Buenos Aires | N/A  | DF  | 3,120,612 | 203 km2
(78 sq mi) | 15372.47
| Buenos Aires | La Plata | La Matanza and General Pueyrredón | BA  | 17,569,053 | 307,571 km2
(118,754 sq mi) | 57.12
| Catamarca | San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca | Tinogasta | CT  | 429,556 | 102,602 km2
(39,615 sq mi) | 4.18
| Chaco | Resistencia | Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña | CC  | 1,142,963 | 99,633 km2
(38,469 sq mi) | 11.47
| Chubut | Rawson | Comodoro Rivadavia | CH  | 603,120 | 224,686 km2
(86,752 sq mi) | 2.68
| Córdoba | Córdoba | Río Cuarto | CB  | 3,978,984 | 165,321 km2
(63,831 sq mi) | 24.06
| Corrientes | Corrientes | Goya | CN  | 1,197,553 | 88,199 km2
(34,054 sq mi) | 13.57
| Entre Ríos | Paraná | Concordia | ER  | 1,426,426 | 78,781 km2
(30,418 sq mi) | 18.10
| Formosa | Formosa | Formosa | FM  | 606,941 | 72,066 km2
(27,825 sq mi) | 8.42
| Jujuy | San Salvador de Jujuy | San Pedro de Jujuy | JY  | 797,955 | 53,219 km2
(20,548 sq mi) | 14.99
| La Pampa | Santa Rosa | General Pico | LP  | 366,022 | 143,440 km2
(55,380 sq mi) | 2.55
| La Rioja | La Rioja | Chilecito | LR  | 384,607 | 89,680 km2
(34,630 sq mi) | 4.28
| Mendoza | Mendoza | Guaymallén | MZ  | 2,014,533 | 148,827 km2
(57,462 sq mi) | 13.53
| Misiones | Posadas | Oberá | MN  | 1,280,960 | 29,801 km2
(11,506 sq mi) | 42.98
| Neuquén | Neuquén | Cutral Có | NQ  | 726,590 | 94,078 km2
(36,324 sq mi) | 7.72
| Río Negro | Viedma | San Carlos de Bariloche | RN  | 762,067 | 203,013 km2
(78,384 sq mi) | 3.75
| Salta | Salta | San Ramón de la Nueva Orán | SA  | 1,440,672 | 155,488 km2
(60,034 sq mi) | 9.26
| San Juan | San Juan | Caucete | SJ  | 818,234 | 89,651 km2
(34,614 sq mi) | 9.12
| San Luis | San Luis | Villa Mercedes | SL  | 540,905 | 76,748 km2
(29,633 sq mi) | 7.04
| Santa Cruz | Río Gallegos | Caleta Olivia | SC  | 333,473 | 243,943 km2
(94,187 sq mi) | 1.36
| Santa Fe | Santa Fe | Rosario | SF  | 3,556,522 | 133,007 km2
(51,354 sq mi) | 26.73
| Santiago del Estero | Santiago del Estero | La Banda | SE  | 1,054,028 | 136,351 km2
(52,645 sq mi) | 7.73
| Tierra del Fuego | Ushuaia | Río Grande | TF  | 190,641 | 21,263 km2
(8,210 sq mi) | 8.96
| Tucumán | San Miguel de Tucumán | Monteros | TM  | 1,703,186 | 22,524 km2
(8,697 sq mi) | 75.61

## See also

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* Argentina portal

* Comparison between Argentine provinces and countries by GDP (PPP) per capita
* Demographics of Argentina
* ISO 3166-2:AR, the ISO codes for the provinces of Argentina.
* List of Argentine provinces by gross regional product
* List of Argentine provinces by Human Development Index
* Conference of Governors of National Territories

## Notes

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1. ^ The City of Buenos Aires is an autonomous city, but its local organization has similarities with the provinces: it has its own constitution, an elected mayor, a congress, and representatives to the Senate and Deputy chambers.[10]
2. ^ Defined by law 27,589

## References

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1. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 3.
2. ^ a b c Rey Balmaceda 1995, p. 19.
3. ^ Rock 1987, p. 155.
4. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 121.
5. ^ Constitution of Argentina, arts. 5, 6.
6. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 123.
7. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 122.
8. ^ Constitution of Argentina, arts. 124, 125.
9. ^ "Legislaturas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y provinciales – República Argentina" (in Spanish). Universidad del Salvador. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
10. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 129.
11. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 6.
12. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 75 inc. 31.
13. ^ Constitution of Argentina, art. 99 inc. 20.
14. ^ "Intervenciones en la historia". La Nación (in Spanish). 11 April 2004. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.
15. ^ "Archivo Histórico – Gobernadores provinciales de la República Argentina 1983–2007" (in Spanish). Ministerio del Interior – Presidencia de la Nación. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
16. ^ "Constitución de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires" (in Spanish). Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. 1 October 1996. Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 13 December 2007.
17. ^ Gwillim Law (30 May 2015). "Provinces of Argentina". Statoids. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
18. ^ INDEC and IGN. "División política, superficie y población" [Political division, area and population] (in Spanish). Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
19. ^ "Nuevos datos provisorios del Censo 2022: Argentina tiene 46.044.703 habitantes". Infobae. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

## Bibliography

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Legal documents

* National Constituent Convention (22 August 1994), Constitution of the Argentine Nation, Santa Fe: Honorable Senado de la Nación Argentina, archived from the original on 4 June 2011

Books

* Rey Balmaceda, Raúl (1995). Mi país, la Argentina (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino. ISBN 84-599-3442-X.
* Rock, David (1987). Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520061781.

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Provincial governors in Argentina

Provinces

| Buenos Aires|

Axel Kicillof (PJ)

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Catamarca|

Raúl Jalil (PJ)

Chaco|

Leandro Zdero (UCR)

Chubut|

Ignacio Torres (PRO)

Córdoba|

Martín Llaryora (PJ/HPC)

Corrientes|

Gustavo Valdés (UCR)

Entre Ríos|

Rogelio Frigerio (PRO)

Formosa|

Gildo Insfrán (PJ)

Jujuy|

Carlos Sadir (UCR)

La Pampa|

Sergio Ziliotto (PJ)

La Rioja|

Ricardo Quintela (PJ)

Mendoza|

Alfredo Cornejo (UCR)

| Misiones|

Hugo Passalacqua (FRC)

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Neuquén|

Rolando Figueroa (C)

Río Negro|

Alberto Weretilneck (JSRN)

Salta|

Gustavo Sáenz (PAIS)

San Juan|

Marcelo Orrego (PyT)

San Luis|

Claudio Poggi (ASL)

Santa Cruz|

Claudio Vidal (SER)

Santa Fe|

Maximiliano Pullaro (UCR)

Santiago del Estero|

Gerardo Zamora (FCxS)

Tierra del Fuego|

Gustavo Melella (FORJA/FDT)

Tucumán|

Osvaldo Jaldo (PJ)

Buenos Aires City

Jorge Macri (PRO)

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