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24 unusual facts about San Miguel de Tucumán


Ana Gloria Moya

Born in Tucuman, Moya works as a lawyer in the northwestern province of Salta.

Arturo Alsina

Born in Tucumán, Argentina to a family of Catalan origin, he moved to Paraguay with his family in 1909.

Baltasar de la Cueva, Count of Castellar

He spoke perfect Quichúa and had been accepted as a prince by the Andean tribes of Tucumán (Argentina).

Camila Solórzano Ayusa

Camila Solórzano Ayusa (born August 16, 1989 in San Miguel de Tucumán) is an Argentinian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Argentina 2012 and was represented her country at the Miss Universe 2012 pageant.

Campo Arenal Aerodrome

This is a remote airport; driving time to larger cities such as San Miguel de Tucumán, Salta or San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca) is at least 6 hours.

Daniel Tinte

He finally recorded his first CD, Northwest Piano, with twenty musicians from Salta, Jujuy, and Tucumán in January 2003.

Gabriel Ascárate

Ascárate started his career in his homeland playing for both Club Natación y Gimnasia in his hometown of San Miguel de Tucumán and later the Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club.

Gloria Lisé

The writer earned her law degree from the National University of Tucumán and her Ph.D in Legal and Social Sciences from the National University of Salta.

Heinz Brücher

He refused, and after the second world war Brücher emigrated to Argentina and received there in 1948 a professorship in genetics and botany at University of Tucumán (Tucumán, Argentina), then in Caracas (Venezuela), Asunción (Paraguay) and later in Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

José Ignacio García Hamilton

García Hamilton was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to Lucía Elena Aráoz and Enrique García Hamilton.

José María Núñez Piossek

José María Núñez Piossek (born 6 December 1976 in Tucumán) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League.

José Santamarina

José María Santamarina (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 21 May 1963) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Juan Augusto Gómez

Juan Augusto Gómez Olmos (born 24 May 1976 in Tucumán) is an Argentina-born, naturalized-Mexican footballer.

La Banda, Argentina

Besides the access to National Route 9 through Santiago del Estero, the city is linked to Tucumán and to Buenos Aires by a weekly train service of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre.

Manuel Saez

Originally from Tucumán, Argentina, Manuel Saez studied architecture at Argentina's National University of Tucumán.

Marita Veron

In February, 13 people (7 men and 6 women) charged with kidnapping Verón and promoting prostitution went on trial in a court in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán.

Martín Terán

Martín José Terán Nougués (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 25 July 1969) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Mercosur Parliament

On June 2008, the MPs held their first parliamentary session outside the Mercosur headquarters in Montevideo, on the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, where the XXXV Meeting of Mercosur Heads of State was also being held.

Pablo Buabse

Pablo Marcelo Buabse (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 27 March 1963) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Pablo Garretón

Pablo Arturo Garretón (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 26 June 1966) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Ricardo Le Fort

Ricardo Agusto Le Fort (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 13 October 1965) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

Santiago Mesón

Santiago Estebán Mesón (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 25 January 1968) is a former Argentine rugby union player.

Vicente Gallo

Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Gallo joined the Radical Civic Union (UCR) from its inception, forming part of a group of young people who worked with Hipólito Yrigoyen in the mid-1890s to secure universal male suffrage.


Delfín Gallo

He was born in San Miguel de Tucumán to a family with connections to the Tucumanian oligarchy, and studied under Amédée Jacques at the Colegio San Miguel.

LAN Argentina

It is an affiliate of LAN Airlines and operates scheduled domestic services from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Córdoba, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, Mendoza, Puerto Iguazú, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, Salta, San Juan, Tucumán and Ushuaia, and international services to Lima, Miami, Punta Cana, Santiago and Sao Paulo.

Maximiliano Asís

César Maximiliano Asís (born on 27 March 1987 in Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer currently playing for FC Inter Turku of the Veikkausliiga.

San Salvador de Jujuy

The settlement initially developed as a strategic site on the mule trade route between San Miguel de Tucumán and the silver mines in Potosí, Bolivia.