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La Pampa Province. / 36.617°S 64.283°W / -36.617; -64.283. La Pampa ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈpampa]) is a sparsely populated province of Argentina, located in the Pampas in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise San Luis, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Río Negro, Neuquén and Mendoza .
The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain") are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
L6300. Phone code. +54 2954. Website. (in Spanish) www.santarosa.gov.ar. Santa Rosa ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈrosa]) is a city in the Argentine Pampas (lowlands), and the capital of La Pampa Province, Argentina. It lies on the east of the province, on the shore of the Don Tomás Lagoon, at the intersection of National Routes 5 and 35.
The Semi-arid Pampas cover an area of 327,000 square kilometers (126,000 sq mi), including western Buenos Aires Province, southern Cordoba and San Luis Provinces and most of La Pampa Province. The area is, in all, home to no more than a million people, who generally enjoy some of the nation's lowest poverty rates. [1]
Name. In 1878, the Argentine state divided the lands in the "desert", granting the territory in question to Don Ernesto Tornquist, who subsequently sold his lands to Alfonso Bernasconi in 1884. In 1888, Bernasconi, seeing that several families had by then settled on his lands, decided to found a settlement, to which he gave his own name.
Macachín is a town in La Pampa Province in Argentina. Shields. Its authors are Robert Auche and Gratitude Group. The Macachin shield is oval in shape, divided into four fields. In the top field that is located on the left, find a sun represents life and the bull located in the opposite camp symbolizes livestock, important in the area.
La Pampa Province geography stubs (101 P) Pages in category "La Pampa Province" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Populated places in La Pampa Province (82 P) D. Departments of La Pampa Province (22 P) G. Geology of La Pampa Province (2 C, 5 P) L.