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Salta province is located in the northeast part of República Argentina, and it has contiguous 23 departments. General San Martín is one of the richest departments in natural resources. General San Martin consists of the following municipalities: Salvador Mazza, Aguaray, Tartagal, General Mosconi, General Ballivian and Embarcación. General Mosconi has one of the largest petroleum and gas fields.

The city of General Enrique Mosconi is located in the northeast of República Argentina in Salta province. As we said before, General Mosconi is one of the six municipalities conforming General San Martin, and is located on Interstate Route 34 and 340 kilometers away from the capital of Salta.



General San Martin?s area is 2758 square kilometers approximately, and it is located on the San Antonio Sub-Arederas Hills and conformed for valleys and flowing streams with 500 meters in altitude water level.



General Enrique Mosconi shares land borders with part of town of Aguaray (to the north) and General Ballivian (to the south), and Tartagal City (to the East), and Rio Grande de Tarija in Bolivia (to the West).



The latitude and longitude of General Enrique Mosconi are the following:

Latitude: 22:39:51 S (-22.6642)

Longitude: 63.46.490 (-63.7804)Climate



The predominant climate is Sub-tropical. The rainfall intensity is 900 millimeters approximately between the months of December and March, while the annual average temperature is 30º C and the maximum temperature is 48º C in summer.

Next, there is a map from ?Revista de la Fauna?(Fauna Magazine) and revised by the Argentine Fauna Foundation; It shows the distribution of different types of vegetation in the high basin of Bermejo River, the most important area of the Bosque of Yungas (Yungas Forest) in the provinces of Salta and Jujuy both located at the northeast of Argentina.



A volunteer from England is learning to cook Empanadas salteñas in General Mosconi (Salta) at her hosting family´s house