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Campamento Vespucio | |
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Municipality and village | |
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Province | Salta Province |
Department | General José de San Martín |
Time zone | UTC−3 (ART) |
Campamento Vespucio is a village and rural municipality in the department of General José de San Martin, in Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. [1] It was established in the beginning of the 20th century due to the discovery and exploitation of oil.
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The Argentine Northwest is a geographic and historical region of Argentina composed of the provinces of Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.
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Salta Basin or Salta Rift Basin is a sedimentary basin located in the Argentine Northwest. The basin started to accumulate sediments in the Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) and at present it has sedimentary deposits reaching thicknesses of 5,000 metres (16,000 ft). The basin contains seven sub-basins: Tres Cruces, Lomas de Olmedo, Metán, Alemanía, Salfity, El Rey, Sey and Brealito. The basin environment has variously been described as a "foreland rift" and an "intra-continental rift". The basin developed under conditions of extensional tectonics and rift-associated volcanism.
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