Las Heras is a city in the
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
of
Mendoza, Argentina, located in the north of the
metropolitan area of the provincial capital (Greater
Mendoza). It has more than 180,000 inhabitants as per the and is the head town of the department of the same name.
The city is immediately next to
Mendoza City, going north down San Martín Avenue. The area includes the low mountain range of El Challao, home to
hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...
s.
The name of the city is an homage to General
Juan Gregorio de las Heras, hero of the
Argentine War of Independence.
References
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Municipality of Las Heras— Official website.
Populated places in Mendoza Province
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