Mendoza Province

Potrerillos is a village at Mendoza Province near Andes

Mendoza is a Province of Argentina. It is in the region called Cuyo. The province borders San Juan in the north, San Luis and La Pampa in the east, Neuquén in the south, and Chile to the west.

It is the major wine producer of Argentina and has many other crops. It has the highest mountain in the country, Aconcagua.

Mendoza has a population of 1,579,651 people (2001). Spanish is the main language but many people also speak English, Italian and Portuguese.

Mendoza Province Media

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  View (looking West) from the Cabildo in the city of Mendoza, prior to the great quake of 1861.

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  Mendoza grape harvest, circa 1890

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  Ex-governor Alfredo Cornejo (left) and ex-president Mauricio Macri (right).

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  The snowy Andes viewed from the National Route 7.

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  Köppen climate map of Mendoza Province, Argentina

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  Vignoble à Mendoza

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  Spanish Plaza, Mendoza. The province attracted tens of thousands of Spaniards, around 1900.

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  Potrerillos Reservoir, Lujan de Cuyo

Other websites

• Official site (in Spanish)
• Mendoza Ministry of Tourism and Culture (in Spanish)
• Discover Mendoza - Turism in Mendoza (in Spanish)
• Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
• Map of Mendoza
• Pictures of Mendoza Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Mendoza at the Great Wine Capitals Archived 2006-11-02 at the Wayback Machine