Famaillá is a city in the
province
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of
Tucumán, Argentina, located 30 km south from the provincial capital
San Miguel de Tucumán
San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Argentina, ...
. It has 22,924 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the
Famaillá Department.
The city is called the "National Capital of the
Empanada
An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Spanish, other Southern European, Latin American, and Iberian-influenced cultures around the world. The name comes from the Spanish (to bread, i.e., ...
". It hosts a festival dedicated to it every September.
The area hosts an experimental agricultural station of the
National Institute of Agro-Technology (''Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria'', INTA). Its economy is based on
export
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s of
sugar and
strawberry.
Famaillá was the site of the
Battle of Monte Grande in 1841, between the forces loyal to
Juan Manuel de Rosas commanded by
Manuel Oribe and the League of the North, led by
Juan Lavalle
Juan Galo Lavalle (17 October 1797 – 9 October 1841) was an Argentine military and political figure.
Biography
Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José Lavalle, general accountant of rents and t ...
.
References
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* Ruta0
Famaillá(brief travel and general information).
* INTA
Estación experimental Famaillá
Populated places in Tucumán Province
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