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3 unusual facts about Mendoza Province


Buddleja mendozensis

Buddleja mendozensis is an extremely variable species endemic to the xeric and subxeric areas of Argentina, from Jujuy to southern Mendoza and La Pampa, where it grows on rocks at altitudes of 600 – 3,000 m.

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña

After a brief post at the University of Cuyo in the northern province of Mendoza, Sánchez-Albornoz was offered a position at the University of Buenos Aires where he created a center for Iberian medieval studies and founded a historical journal, the Cuadernos de historia de España.

Mendoza Province

Different wind fronts affect the landscape, mainly the Zonda wind, but also the mild Pampero, the warm Viento Norte and, in winter, the very rare Sudestada from the Southeast.


Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Battle of Quebracho Herrado

Ultimately, eight months later, Lavalle was defeated at the Battle of Famaillá and Lamadrid in the Battle of Rodeo del Medio, in Mendoza Province.

Chivito

Every summer, a Chivito Festival is held in the town of Malargüe in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.

Darío Figueroa

Darío Damián Figueroa (born 13 February 1978 in San Rafael, Mendoza) is an Argentine football midfielder who plays for Zamora of Venezuela.

Governor of Mendoza

The Constitution (1916) of Mendoza Province, Argentina states that the executive power of the Province will be led by a citizen chosen as a Governor by the people for a four-year term, and not allowed to be re-elected for the immediately following term.

Roberto Lavagna

The UCR endorsed Lavagna in the first election since the party's establishment in 1892 that the UCR ran in a coalition rather than field its own candidate; Gerardo Morales, leader of the UCR, was named Lavagna's running mate (Mrs. Kirchner also had a Radical as her running mate, Mendoza Governor Julio Cobos).

Saturnino Manuel de Laspiur

In March 1848 Benavídez again delegated the government to Laspiur while he was in Mendoza Province, where he commanded the forces of that province in a short campaign against the rebel commander of Fort San Rafael, Juan Antonio Rodríguez.

Teatro Independencia

The initiative, enacted by the reformist Governor Carlos Washington Lencinas in 1922, led to the opening of the Plaza Hotel, in 1924, and subsequently to a contract for the construction of the first opera house in Mendoza Province.

World March for Peace and Nonviolence

The March started October 2 (Gandhi's birthday), 2009 in Wellington, New Zealand and finished on January 2, 2010 in Punta de Vacas, Mendoza, Argentina.


see also

Battle of Rodeo de Chacón

Having occupied San Luis, Quiroga's next target was the governor of Mendoza Province, José Videla Castillo.

Godoy Cruz Department

The city of Godoy Cruz is home to Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, a football club, which became in 2006 the first club from Mendoza Province ever to compete in the Primera Division.