Aguas Blancas, Salta

Aguas Blancas (Salta) is a village and rural municipality in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina.[1] It is a city in the Oran department, located northeast of the province of Salta, Argentina. Aguas Blancas is located on the right bank of the Bermejo River, which forms a natural boundary between Argentina and Bolivia. The city Bermejo, Bolivia is on the opposite bank of the river.

Aguas Blancas (Salta)
Municipality and village
Country Argentina
ProvinceSalta Province
Population
 (2001)
  Total1,403
Area code(s)03878
ClimateCwb

It has a cluster of farms with novelty horticultural crops and high-value fruits which it exports. These include orange, grapefruit, lemon, mango, papaya, banana, green pepper, tomato, watermelon, pumpkin, melon, strawberry, sweet potato, cassava, and coffee.

Climate

Climate data for Aguas Blancas (1964–1990)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Daily mean °C (°F) 26.2
(79.2)
25.2
(77.4)
24.1
(75.4)
21.4
(70.5)
19.1
(66.4)
15.9
(60.6)
15.8
(60.4)
17.5
(63.5)
20.0
(68.0)
23.6
(74.5)
24.7
(76.5)
26.0
(78.8)
21.6
(70.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 253
(10.0)
226
(8.9)
227
(8.9)
94
(3.7)
42
(1.7)
12
(0.5)
11
(0.4)
9
(0.4)
15
(0.6)
60
(2.4)
120
(4.7)
204
(8.0)
1,273
(50.1)
Source: Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria[2]
gollark: I mean, I'd happily support anarchists being allowed to test how well things work for a self-selected group on some mostly unused land.
gollark: Anyway, thing is, people are probably *not* on the whole nice and well-meaning and selfless.
gollark: Perhaps markets between towns but communes of some sort within towns might work.
gollark: Just assume everyone is nice and well-meaning and they won't run into conflict?
gollark: So they'll... all magically work out how to allocate resources even without any real incentive there?

References

  1. Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
  2. "Estadísticos de Precipitaciones y Balance Hídrico". Las Precipitaciones del Noroeste Argentino (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Retrieved 3 April 2016.

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