Famaillá is a city in the

province A province is an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire, Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

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, Argentin ...

. 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

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". 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

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s of

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and

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. Famaillá was the site of the during the

Argentine Civil War The Argentine Civil Wars were a series of civil conflicts of varying intensity that took place in the territories of Argentina from 1814 to 1853. Beginning concurrently with the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1818), the conflict prevente ...

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in 1841, between the forces loyal to

Juan Manuel de Rosas Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confedera ...

commanded by

Manuel Oribe Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana (August 26, 1792 – November 12, 1857) was the 2nd Constitutional president of Uruguay and founder of Uruguay's National Party, the oldest Uruguayan political party and considered one of the two Uruguayan "tr ...

and the League of the North, led by

Juan Lavalle Juan Galo Lavalle (; 17 October 17979 October 1841) was an Argentine military and political figure from the Unitarian Party. Early life and education Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José Laval ...

References

* * Ruta0
Famaillá
(brief travel and general information). * INTA
Estación experimental Famaillá
. Populated places in Tucumán Province Cities in Argentina {{Tucumán-geo-stub