Cordoba

Córdoba (county, Argentina), county of the República Argentina that limits with the counties of Santa Fe for the east; of Santiago del Estero for the north; of Catamarca, The Rioja and San Luis for the west, and of La Pampa for the south. Physical geography In their surface they are distinguished two environments: the one of the mountains to the northwest and the plain pampeana in the rest. The mountain sector is part of the system of the mountains Pampeanas, blocks of rocks ascended precámbric that they present cords in sense north-south with longitudinal valleys; their summits reach a maximum height of 2.884m in the hill Champaquí. The oriental plain was formed for accumulation of silts it has more than enough blocks of the same origin that collapsed. The superior layer of loess eolic -silts - they grant fertility to the floors. To the west of the mountains they are the western plains and the depression occupied by the Big Salines. It possesses temperate climate with rains that diminish from this to west, from the 900 to the annual 400 mm; the presence of the mountain that intervenes to the step of the humid air coming from the east causes rains orográficas that give birth to rivers whose slope is guided toward the east and with violent grown in summer, due to the maximum precipitations in that station and to its strong slopes. The rivers First and Second they end in the Tiny lagoon of Sea, while the Third and the Room are integrated to the basin of the Silver and the Recruit, coming from San Luis' mountains, he/she gets lost for infiltration in those taken a bath of The Bitter one. In their basins numerous dikes have been built for multiple uses, as the one of San Asleep and that of The Mills. In the oriental flat sector a herbaceous vegetation of prairies is developed, very capable for the consumption of the livestock, and in the mountains vegetable floors are staggered, beginning with trees and bushes in the most humid low parts that you/they go being replaced in height until arriving to the pastizales of gramineous. Economy Córdoba participates, together with the counties of Buenos Aires and Santa Faith, of the nucleus of bigger economic weight of the country. From ends of the XIX century he/she incorporated to the national economy and the external trade with the cultivation of cereals and the meat production of bovine. By the middle of the XX century it began their industrial production, supported in the hydroelectric energy. The production of cereals and oleaginous (wheat, corn, sunflower, peanut, soya or soya) it is dedicated in their biggest part to the export. Intensive cultivations also take place in the mountain valleys and in the piedemonte; under watering vegetables, vegetables, fruits and vine are obtained. The bovine cattle raising and ovina are developed starting from the forrajeras cultivation or in natural grasses in the center and southeast. The cattle raising bovine milkmaid is of great relevance and he/she gave origin to a prosperous milky industry. In the mountain sector and in the semi-arid plains of the west it is raised won ovino and caprino. He/she also has an outstanding production of application rocks. The industries concentrate on the city of Córdoba, capital of the county and one of the most important industrial districts in the country. Other industrial cities are Quarter River, San Francisco, River Third and Villa María. Items or very diverse industrial sectors are developed as material of transport, railcars, machineries, foods, chemical products, factory of airplanes, textile, petrochemical and cement plants, among others. In River Third he/she is the second nuclear power station of the country. The beauty paisajística of the mountain area constitutes one of the most important national poles in tourist attraction. The county is in a crossroad of communication roads with the other regions. Population The county of Córdoba has a surface of 165.321km2 and with a population (1991) of 2.764.176 inhabitants. Departments of Córdoba Data of their surface (in km2) and their population (in 1991):
Calamuchita; 4.642; 38.804 hab
Capital; 562; 1.179.372 hab
Colon; 2.588; 125.402 hab
Cruz del Eje; 6.653; 48.650 hab
General Roca; 12.659; 32.866 hab
General San Martin; 5.006; 105.161 hab
Ischilín; 5.123; 28.339 hab
Juárez Celman; 8.902; 51.490 hab
Marcos Juárez; 9.490; 97.595 hab
Mines; 3.730; 4.800 hab
Pocho; 3.207; 5.057 hab
presidente Roque Sáenz Peña; 8.228; 34.495 hab
Punilla; 2.592; 121.215 hab
Rio Cuarto; 18.394; 217.876 hab
Rio Primero; 6.753; 37.386 hab
Rio Seco; 6.754; 10.595 hab
Rio Segundo; 4.970; 84.393 hab
San Alberto; 3.327; 25.104 hab
San Javier; 1.652; 42.569 hab
San Justo; 13.677; 176.697 hab
Santa María; 3.427; 69.470 hab
Sobremonte; 3.307; 4.196 hab
Tercero Arriba; 5.187; 103.716 hab
Totoral; 3.145; 13.827 hab
Tulumba; 10.164; 11.291 hab
Union; 11.182; 96.317 hab
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