Salta

Salta, a northern province of the Argentine Republic, touching Chili and Bolivia, and nearly enclosing the province of Jujuy. Minerals are abundant, but have been neglected for agriculture and cattle-raising. Salta is watered by the Salado, San Francisco, and Bermejo. Area, 45,000 sq. m.; pop. 118,015.—SALTA, the capital, on the Rio Arias, 535 miles by rail N. by W. of Córdoba, was founded in 1582, is the seat of an archbishop, and has a seminary for priests, a national college, and a normal school for girls. Pop. (1895) 16,600.