San Luís, a west-central province of the Argentine Republic, with an area of 29,304 sq. m. and a pop. (1896) of 76,500. It is mountainous in the north, and a series of dry and sterile plains in the south. Its mineral wealth, though unquestionably great, has as yet scarcely been tapped, and agriculture requires constant irrigation.—The capital, San Luis, founded in 1597, is on the transcontinental railway, 480 miles W. by N. of Buenos Ayres, and has a national college and a normal school, and 6000 inhabitants.
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