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The province presents the aspect of an extensive nitrous plain, only interrupted by the rivers that run in diagonal sense and for the elevations located in the borders south, west and northwest; it is here where they register the biggest provincial altitudes.
In the south sector of the province, in the departments of Quebrachos and Ojo de Agua, the mountains of Sumampa and Ambargasta are located; in the west it is the cord of the mountains of Guasayán that extends from Choya until Thermal baths of Rio Hondo, and of the limits with the counties of Tucumán and Catamarca, until the towns of Luján, in the department Choya; lastly, in the northwest, the hill El Remate, in the department Pellegrini.
All they embrace a surface of 65 km 2, included the Laguna Negra that is to the western foot of the same one. These mountain areas rise respectively to 250, 280 and 210 meters
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| THe floor |
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The floor of Santiago del Estero suffers a process of calcification that one manifests for the formation of carbonate of calcium in the profile of the floor. This characteristic determines that a steppe vegetation is developed or of desert, low semi-arid climates. Inside the fluvial systems of the salted rivers and Sweet a range of floors is observed that goes from mineral floors until hidromórficos, with high proportion of salts and alkalis. In the Southwest of the province, the earth becomes white due to the salt: they are the salines of Ambargasta, next to the Big Salinas of the south of Catamarca and north of Córdoba.
The nitrous floors of some areas of the province don't allow the growth and the development of any type of vegetation. |
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| The rivers |
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| Of north to south, both more important than they travel the provincial territory they are five: Salado, Horcones, Urueña, Dulce and Albigasta. |
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| River Salado |
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It is the continuation of the river Juramento that it is born in it Salta and it ends in Santa Fé. fill a longitude of 1.500 kilometers, of which 400 lapse in Santiago del Estero. their main accidents are those taken a bath Flake and Pellegrini, the reservoir The Fígueroa, the dike Derivador, the lagoons of the Perro Loco, Juan Cruz, the Crunita, Rio de la Guardia and Jume Esquina, the river Cuchi Pozo and those taken a bath of Añatuya. |
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| River Horcones |
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| It is born in it Salta and it penetrates in Santiago del Estero for the department Pellegrini. It ends in the salted one. its journey for the province arrives to the 50 kilometers. |
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| River Ureña |
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| It is another of the rivers of the department Pellegrini. it is born among the limits of it Salta and Tucumán. |
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| River Dulce |
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| The most important. it is born in the limit of it Salta and Tucumán; in Santiago it takes the name of Dulce and it travels 450 kilometers of the provincial surface it enters in Rio Hondoand it ends in the Mar Chiquita in Córdoba. It travels 14 departments Rio Hondo, La Banda, Capital, Robles, Silípica, San Martin, Sarmiento, Loreto, Atamisqui, Avellaneda, Salavina, Mitre, Quebrachos and Rivadavia. |
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| River Albigasta |
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| It originates in Sierra del Alto one (Catamarca) and it penetrates in Santiago to the south of Frias getting lost after 16 kilometers of journey in having taken a bath that they finish in San Bernardo's salines, department Choya. |
Viajoporargentina - Información Turística sobre la República Argentina
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