The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is the Capital of the Nation. It has an autonomous form of government, with own legislation power and jurisdiction and its governor is directly elected by its citizens.
The city of Córdoba was founded on July 6, 1573, by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, by the banks of the Suquía River. It is the capital of the Province of Córdoba and has around 1,300,000 inhabitants, what places it at the second–largest Argentine city, after the city of Buenos Aires.
It is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires. Its foundation was projected in 1880 after the city of Buenos Aires was declared the capital city of the Argentine Republic. The then governor, Dardo Rocha, was in charge of its construction. Its foundational stone was placed on November 19, 1882, during the first presidency of Julio Argentino Roca.
The City of Mar del Plata is located in the Province of Buenos Aires (District of General Pueyrredón), at 400 km south from the City of Buenos Aires. Due to its landscape of a Pampean steppe and hills sloping down to the Atlantic Ocean it received the name of “the pearl of the Atlantic”. Mar del Plata has an urban centre that, though it concentrates most of the population, it is surrounded by the wild and residential beauty of Sierra de los Padres and the neighbourhoods of San Francisco, Los Ortiz, Loma Alta, Quinta de Peralta Ramos, Félix U. Camet, Chapadmalal, El Boquerón, Las Hermanas and Valle Hermoso, among others. Mar del Plata’s development encouraged by tourism offers the charm of its natural resources, its vast and modern infrastructure and the hospitality of its inhabitants.
Mendoza is a beautiful city conformed on a depression that extends at the east of the last hills at the bottom of the Andes Cordillera at 750 meters (2,460 feet) above sea level. It was founded on March 2, 1561 by Captain Pedro del Castillo, when he arrived from the territory of Chile on the then Valley of Huentala, inhabited by the huarpes Indians, who have been submitted by the Inca civilization, from which they inherited the drip irrigation system.
Rosario is located in the Province of Santa Fe and has one third of the total population of the province (over 1 million inhabitants). Most are Italian and Spaniard descendents. Labour training is comparable to that of the most developed countries in the world, particularly at technical and professional levels.
It is thought that the name Tucumán derives from the quechua Yucuman, that means "place where rivers are born".
This international tourist centre is located at the northwest of the Province of Río Negro, on the southeast bank of the Nahuel Huapi lake, inside the Nahuel Huapi National Park, at 764 meters (2,506 feet) above sea level. The city, in the Patagonian Andes area, is characterised by its mountains, woods, lakes and crystalline rivers as well as for bordering the high Cordillera mountains on the west, some of which are covered by glacier snow most of the year. Skiing is the favourite sport during winter, while rowing, fishing, trekking and adventure trips are preferred in summer.