Monteros
Sign in to saveMonteros is the head town of the Monteros Department in Tucumán Province, Argentina. It is south-west of the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán, at an altitude of , and is surrounded by four rivers. It had 23,771 inhabitants at the . The average temperature is in summer and in winter, with a high of and a low of .
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- Monteros
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- Aerial view of Monteros
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- Location of Monteros in Argentina
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- 23274
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Monteros is the head town of the Monteros Department in Tucumán Province, Argentina. It is south-west of the provincial capital San Miguel de Tucumán, at an altitude of , and is surrounded by four rivers. It had 23,771 inhabitants at the . The average temperature is in summer and in winter, with a high of and a low of .
==History== thumb|left|Main square and Our Lady of the Rosary Church. thumb|left|Cristóbal Colón, main commercial city street. thumb The small village of Monteros was in an area acquired the military governor Don Felipe Antonio de Alurralde in 1754. In 1867 Monteros was declared a municipio and Don Domingo Segundo Aráoz appointed as its first mayor. Monteros subsequently grew in importance within the southern Tucumán region.