The Cradle of Argentine Independence — where the historic Casa de Tucumán is the building in which the 29 delegates of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata signed the Argentine Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1816, Tucumán is Argentina's smallest but most densely populated province, the city sits at the base of the Sierra del Aconquija at 450 metres elevation where the subtropical northwest of Argentina meets the sugarcane-producing Tucumán plain, and the Tucumán Carnival (February) is the oldest surviving carnival tradition in Argentina
San Miguel de Tucumán (900,000 city; 1.1 million metro) is the capital of Tucumán Province in northwest Argentina — a mid-size industrial and agricultural city whose historical importance to Argentina far outweighs its tourist profile. The city's central significance is the 1816 Declaration of Argentine Independence, which occurred here rather than in Buenos Aires for pragmatic reasons (Tucumán was safer from Spanish royalist forces than Buenos Aires at that moment). Tucumán Province produces approximately 65% of Argentina's sugarcane and is the only province entirely enclosed within its neig…
San Miguel de Tucumán was founded in 1565 by the conquistador Diego de Villaroel and refounded in its current location in 1685. The city became strategically vital in the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1825) — the Battle of Tucumán (September 24, 1812) was the decisive early battle of Argentine independence: General Manuel Belgrano's Army of the North defeated the Royalist forces of Pío Tristán at the outskirts of Tucumán city, saving the independence movement from collapse. The Congress of Tucumán (1816) assembled 29 delegates from across the United Provinces of Río de la Plata — they c…