List of provinces of Argentina
Argentina is divided into 23 provinces ( provincias , singular provincia ) and one autonomous city ( ciudad autónoma ).
Legal status
The provinces are the constituent states of the Argentine state . They each have their own provincial constitution . It is responsible for all state tasks that are not expressly assigned to the central state by the Argentine constitution.
The area claimed in Antarctica (referred to as the Argentine Antarctic Territory ) is not recognized internationally, as the Antarctic Treaty prohibits all states from raising or asserting territorial claims.
Institutions
The provinces each have a government headed by a directly elected governor ( gobernador ) and a parliament.
The provinces are administratively subdivided into departments . The province of Buenos Aires , whose subdivisions are called Partidos, is an exception . The departments in some provinces are further subdivided into Municipios (municipalities), while the area of the Partidos of the Province of Buenos Aires and the Departments in Mendoza, San Juan and La Rioja is identical to that of the associated Municipios.
history
The majority of the Argentine provinces emerged between 1810 and 1834 from parts of the former viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata . A central government for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata ( Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata ) was initially unable to establish itself permanently, so that the individual provinces were de facto independent states from 1820 onwards. Only the external representation remained mostly in the hands of the Province of Buenos Aires .
When it was founded in 1853, the Argentine state initially comprised 13 inland provinces: Catamarca , Córdoba , Corrientes , Entre Ríos , Jujuy , La Rioja , Mendoza , Salta , San Juan , San Luis , Santa Fe , Santiago del Estero and Tucumán . In 1859 (finally in 1862) the province of Buenos Aires also became part of the state.
The city of Buenos Aires , which until then had been part of the province of Buenos Aires and its capital, was separated from the province of the same name in 1880 as a federal district (Distrito Federal) and federal capital.
Areas newly incorporated into the Argentine state on the border with Paraguay in the northeast and in the Gran Chaco , on the border with Bolivia and Chile in the northwest, in the southern pampas , Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego were initially directly subordinated to the federal government as national territories ( Territorios nacionales ). Over time, nine new provinces were formed from some of the national territories, while other areas were incorporated into existing provinces. This is how the new provinces of Misiones in the northeast, Chaco and Formosa in the Gran Chaco, La Pampa in the southern Pampa, Neuquén , Río Negro , Chubut and Santa Cruz in Patagonia and the last in 1991 Tierra del Fuego ( Tierra del Fuego ) were created. The province of Buenos Aires was enlarged to the south. The Territorio Nacional de los Andes in the northwest, founded in 1899, was divided into the provinces of Salta, Jujuy and Catamarca in 1943. In Patagonia there was the Zona Militar de Comodoro Rivadavia between 1944 and 1955, which encompassed the south of today's province of Chubut and the north of today's Santa Cruz and was founded primarily with the aim of protecting oil deposits during World War II .
In the 1950s, two provinces briefly bore the names of important Argentine personalities: the province of La Pampa referred to itself as Provincia Eva Perón between 1952 and 1956 , and the province of Chaco was named Provincia Presidente Perón between 1951 and 1955 .
Until 1994, the city of Buenos Aires was a federal district directly subordinate to the central government. Since the constitutional reform in the same year, Buenos Aires has been largely on an equal footing with the provinces as an autonomous city .
Overview table
| province | Area (rank) percentage |
Inhabitant (rank) |
Density (rank) |
Capital | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 City of Buenos Aires
|
200 (24) 0.007 | 2,890,151 (4) | 14,450.8 (1) | C. | |
 Buenos Aires Province
|
307,571 (1) 11.11 | 15,625,084 (1) | 50.8 (3) | La Plata | B. |
 Catamarca
|
102.602 (11) 3.7 | 367,828 (20) | 3.6 (20) | San Fernando | K |
 Chaco
|
99,633 (12) 3.6 | 1,055,259 (10) | 10.6 (11) | Resistencia | H |
 Chubut
|
224,686 (3) 8.12 | 509,108 (18) | 2.3 (22) | Rawson | U |
 Cordoba
|
165,321 (5) 5.97 | 3,308,876 (2) | 20.0 (6) | Cordoba | X |
 Corrientes
|
88.199 (16) 3.18 | 992,595 (11) | 11.3 (10) | Corrientes | W. |
 Entre Ríos
|
78,781 (17) 2.84 | 1,235,994 (7) | 15.7 (7) | Paraná | E. |
 Formosa
|
72,066 (19) 2.60 | 530.162 (17) | 7.4 (14) | Formosa | P |
 Jujuy
|
53.219 (20) 1.92 | 673,307 (14) | 12.7 (8) | San Salvador | Y |
 La Pampa
|
143,440 (8) 5.29 | 318,951 (22) | 2.2 (23) | Santa Rosa | L. |
 La Rioja
|
89,680 (14) 3.24 | 333,642 (21) | 3.7 (19) | La Rioja | F. |
 Mendoza
|
148,827 (7) 5.37 | 1,738,929 (5) | 11.7 (9) | Mendoza | M. |
 Misiones
|
29,801 (21) 1.07 | 1,101,593 (9) | 37.0 (4) | Posadas | N |
 Neuquén
|
94.078 (13) 3.4 | 551,266 (16) | 5.9 (17) | Neuquén | Q |
 Río Negro
|
203,013 (4) 7.33 | 638,645 (15) | 3.1 (21) | Viedma | R. |
 Salta
|
155,488 (6) 5.61 | 1,214,441 (8) | 7.8 (12) | Salta | A. |
 San Juan
|
89,651 (15) 3.24 | 681,055 (13) | 7.6 (13) | San Juan | J |
 San Luis
|
76,748 (18) 2.77 | 432,310 (19) | 5.6 (18) | San Luis | D. |
 Santa Cruz
|
243,943 (2) 8.81 | 273,964 (23) | 1.1 (24) | Río Gallegos | Z |
 Santa Fe
|
133.007 (10) 4.8 | 3,194,537 (3) | 24.0 (5) | Santa Fe | S. |
 Santiago del Estero
|
136.351 (9) 4.92 | 874.006 (12) | 6.4 (15) | Santiago | G |
 Tierra del Fuego (dt. Tierra del Fuego ) |
21,571 (23) 0.77 | 127.205 (24) | 5.9 (16) | Ushuaia | V |
 Tucuman
|
22,524 (22) 0.81 | 1,448,188 (6) | 64.3 (2) | San Miguel | T |
| total | 2,780,400 | 40.117.096 | 14.4 |
Provincial coats of arms and provincial flags
All Argentine provinces have a provincial coat of arms and a provincial flag. For descriptions of the provincial flags and coats of arms, see the articles Flag of Argentina and Coat of Arms of Argentina .
- The flags of the Argentine provinces
City of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires Province
Chaco
Catamarca
Chubut
Cordoba
Corrientes
Entre Ríos
Formosa
Jujuy
La Pampa
La Rioja
Mendoza
Misiones
Neuquén
Río Negro
Salta
San Juan
San Luis
Santa Cruz
Santa Fe
Santiago del Estero
Tierra del Fuego
Tucuman
Footnotes
- ↑ Alberto Bianchi: La autonomía de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (PDF; 133 kB), publication on adminpublica.org.ar
- ↑ in km², source: archived copy ( memento of the original dated April 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2010 census, source: www.indec.gov.ar
- ↑ Population density in inhabitants per km²
- ↑ with full name Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires ), federal district
- ↑ with full name Tierra del Fuego, Argentine Antarctica and islands of the South Atlantic ( Tierra del Fuego, Antártida Argentina e Islas del Atlántico Sur ), area information only for Tierra del Fuego
