Jujuy,

Jujuy, the most northerly province of the Argentine Republic, is a mountainous tract, bounded on the W. and N. by Bolivia, and has an area of about 27,000 sq. m. Its minerals are rich, but not worked to any extent. The chief industries are agriculture and cattle-raising; sugar and wheat are the principal crops. The exports (mainly to Bolivia) consist of cattle, mules, fruit, chicha brandy, skins, gold-dust, and salt. Pop. (est. 1888) 90,000.—The capital, JUJUY, on the San Francisco River, 44 miles N. of Salta, has a custom-house, a national college, a girls' normal school, sugar-houses and refineries, and 6000 inhabitants.