Jujuy

(ho͞ohwē`), city (1991 pop. 182,663), capital of Jujuy prov., NW Argentina, on the Bermejo River. In the scenic foothill region of the E Andes, it is the center of an agricultural, mining, and cattle-raising area. It was in Jujuy that Manuel Belgrano, the patriot general, created the first Argentine national flag. Juan Lavalle, after a futile attempt to depose the caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas, was killed in Jujuy in 1841. There are interesting native ruins nearby. Jujuy is also known as San Salvador de Jujuy.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Jujuy

a province in northwestern Argentina. Area, 53,200 sq km; population, 302,400(1970). Its administrative center is the city of Jujuy. In the west the province extends over an alpine desert plateau, known as the puna. The eastern part of the province contains the slopes of the Cordillera Real. Tin, polymetals, iron ore, sulfur, and copper are extracted in the west; tobacco and sugarcane plantations are located in the east. There is sawmilling industry in Jujuy. Enterprises of the ferrous metal industry are found in Zap la. Food industry enterprises are located in the city of Jujuy. Sheep and mules graze in the alpine pastures.

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Desde un punto de vista geografico, como se ha dicho, en Jujuy se distinguen cuatro regiones internas: en las tierras altas se encuentran la Quebrada de Humahuaca y la Puna; en las tierras bajas, los Valles Centrales, donde se emplaza la capital del distrito, y, en un predominante ambiente de selvas humedas en las laderas de las montanas, los Valles Subtropicales, nucleo principal de la produccion azucarera (9).

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La intencion de este articulo es construir analiticamente a la ciudad de San Salvador de Jujuy en sus dimensiones historicas y mas contemporaneas para considerar los factores migratorios, socioeconomicos y politicos que inciden materialmente en la estructuracion actual de la construccion simbolica de la ciudad capital de la provincia de Jujuy, limite con la frontera boliviana y chilena en Argentina.

Construccion sociocultural de San Salvador de Jujuy, frontera simbolica de Argentina con Bolivia

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Conviene resaltar que de las provincias de la region "valles del NOA", casi el 77,19 % de "Explotaciones Agropecuarias de Pequenos Productores del tipo 3" se concentran en Jujuy. En cambio, para la region pampeana y Buenos Aires, los pequenos productores del tipo 3 poseen en comparacion un porcentaje menor (24,35 %).

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Beginning in 1937 with Ignacio Trapani, Ricardo Trapani and his sons, Fabricio, Gabriel, and Franco have grown FGF into an enterprise of over 3,200 acres of lemons and oranges in the Provinces of Salta, Jujuy and Tucuman as well as owning and operating a juice processing facility in the Province of Tucuman.

Limoneira enters agreement for strategic joint venture in Argentina

En Argentina se encuentran los trabajos de Telleria (1993); Basilio (2000); Faye, Planchelo, & Molineli (2002); Andrada (2003); Andrada & Telleria (2005); Nabb & Tamame (2007); Forcone et al., (2011); Forcone & Ruppel (2012) y para el noroeste argentino solo el reporte de Burgos, Sanchez, & Lupo (2015) para la region del Chaco Serrano de la provincia de Jujuy.

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Agricultural research and development officials are in the northern Argentine province of Jujuy to address the sustainability of agricultural systems at the Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists of the G20 (MACS-G20), said a statement from the organisation.

G20 scientists dicuss agriculture challenges

In 1982, when Argentina confronted a more powerful Great Britain in the war over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, more than 25,000 Bolivian living the border provinces of Jujuy and Salta volunteered to defend Argentina's claim on the South Atlantic islands.

With a Right-Wing Agenda, Argentina's Macri Wants to Play a Role in Bolivian Elections

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