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An INEGI employee going door-to-door gathering Census information in Oaxaca de Juárez.. With the enactment of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information Law, (LSNIEG by its name in Spanish, Ley del Sistema Nacional de Información Estadística y Geográfica) on April 16, 2008, INEGI changed its legal personality, acquiring technical and management autonomy.
The Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, also called Cristo Redentor, is a mountain pass [citation needed] in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. It is the main transport route out of the Chilean capital city Santiago into Mendoza Province in Argentina and so carries quite heavy traffic.
The Transandine Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge combined rack and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km.
Los Andes is an Argentine daily newspaper published in the city of Mendoza. The newspaper was founded in 1882 by Adolfo Calle. It is not related to the Los Andes newspaper in Peru. In September 1995, it became the first Argentine newspaper to become available on the internet. [2]
In 1817 it was used by the Army of the Andes to cross the Andes, in the campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire. Reaching a maximum elevation of about 3,830 m (12,566 ft), [ 1 ] the pass runs between the peaks of the 6,962 m (22,841 ft) Aconcagua to the north and the 6,570 m (21,555 ft) Tupungato to the south.
The Agua Negra Pass (Spanish: Paso de Agua Negra) is a pass over the Andes mountains which connects Argentina and Chile. The highest point of this pass is at 4,780 m (15,680 ft) AMSL . [ 1 ]
The story starts in 1880, near the date when the remains of the deceased José de San Martín were moved to Buenos Aires. Manuel Corvalán, a veteran of the Army of the Andes gets interviewed for the event, and the narration continues mostly through flashbacks, following a very young Manuel, who gets a job as the secretary of San Martín and accompanies him during a journey in which he ...
It is located to the interior of the town of Putaendo, to the north of the city of San Felipe, Valparaíso Region, Chile, and framed by the imposing Valle de Los Patos Sur (Southern Valley of Ducks), SW of the Province of San Juan, Argentina. Other names are used for the same pass: the passages of Llaretas, Ortiz, the Honda and the Valle Hermoso.