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San Juan Province, Argentina
San Juan is a province of western Argentina at the foot of the Andes, with its capital at the city of San Juan. Founded as a town from Chile in 1562, it belonged to the region of Cuyo and became a separate province in 1820. It was the birthplace of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and an earthquake in 1944 destroyed its capital. Its economy rests on wine, irrigated farming and mining.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). San Juan Province, Argentina. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/san-juan-province-argentina
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