| Governor of Santiago del Estero Province | |
|---|---|
 Provincial coat of Arms | |
| Appointer | Direct popular vote |
| Term length | 4 years |
| Inaugural holder | Juan Felipe Ibarra |
The Governor of Santiago del Estero (Spanish : Gobernador de la Provincia de Santiago del Estero) is a citizen of the Santiago del Estero Province, in Argentina, holding the office of governor for the corresponding period. The governor is elected alongside a vice-governor. Currently the governor of Santiago del Estero is Gerardo Zamora. [1]
| Governor | Term in office | Party | Election | Vice Governor | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Juárez | 10 December 1983 – 10 December 1987 | PJ | 1983 | — | ||
 | César Iturre | 10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991 | PJ | 1987 | Manuel Hipólito Herrera | |
 | Carlos Aldo Mujica | 10 December 1991 – 27 October 1993 | PJ | 1991 | Fernando Martín Lobo | |
 | Fernando Martín Lobo | 27 October 1993 – 16 December 1993 | PJ | Vacant | ||
| Juan Schiaretti (Federal Interventor) | 16 December 1993 – 6 July 1995 | PJ | — | |||
| Carlos Juárez | 6 July 1995 – 15 December 2001 | PJ | 1995 | Luis María Peña | ||
| Juan Rodrigo | ||||||
| Darío Moreno | ||||||
| 1999 | Mercedes Aragonés | |||||
| | Carlos Ricardo Díaz | 15 December 2001 – 25 November 2002 | PJ | — | Vacant | |
| 2002 | Mercedes Aragonés | |||||
| Darío Moreno | 25 November 2002 – 12 December 2002 | PJ | ||||
| Mercedes Aragonés | 12 December 2002 – 1 April 2004 | PJ | Darío Moreno | |||
| Joaquín Botta | ||||||
 | Pablo Lanusse (Federal Interventor) | 1 April 2004 – 23 March 2005 | PJ | — | Vacant | |
 | Gerardo Zamora | 23 March 2005 – 10 December 2013 | UCR | 2005 | Emilio Rached | |
| Blanca Porcel | ||||||
| 2008 | Ángel Niccolai | |||||
 | Claudia Ledesma Abdala | 10 December 2013 – 10 December 2017 | FCpS | 2013 | José Emilio Neder | |
| | Gerardo Zamora | 10 December 2017 – Incumbent | FCpS | 2017 | Carlos Silva Neder | |
| 2021 | ||||||
Santiago del Estero, also known simply as Santiago, is a province in the north of Argentina. Neighboring provinces, clockwise from the north, are Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.
Santiago del Estero is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a surface area of 2,116 km2. It lies on the Dulce River and on National Route 9, at a distance of 1,042 km north-northwest from Buenos Aires. Estimated to be 455 years old, Santiago del Estero was the first city founded by Spanish settlers in the territory that is now Argentina. As such, it is nicknamed "Madre de Ciudades". Similarly, it has been officially declared the "mother of cities and cradle of folklore."
The Civic Front for Santiago is a Peronist provincial political coalition in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina. It operates as part of Frente de Todos.
Gerardo Zamora is an Argentine politician who has served as Governor of Santiago del Estero since 2017, and previously from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).
Carlos Arturo Juárez was an Argentine politician, Justicialist Party governor or ruler by proxy of Santiago del Estero Province over a 55-year period, leading to his description as a caudillo.
Eduardo Alfredo Fellner is an Argentine Peronist politician. He was President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and governor of Jujuy Province for two terms.
Walter Basilio Barrionuevo is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, and governor of Jujuy Province.
Juan Carlos Maccarone was an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of the Diocese of Santiago del Estero from 1999 to 2005, when he resigned after evidence he had engaged in same-sex relations with a 23-year-old man became public. He had been a bishop since 1993, serving as auxiliary bishop of Lomas de Zamora for three years and bishop of Chascomús for two and a half years.
K Radicalism also known as Radicales K were a faction within the Radical Civic Union (UCR), a political party in Argentina.
Claudia Alejandra Ledesma Abdala de Zamora is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero Province and as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate since 2019. A member of the local Civic Front for Santiago, Ledesma Abdala was governor of Santiago del Estero from 2013 to 2017, succeeding and preceding her husband, Gerardo Zamora.
Tren al Desarrollo is an elevated commuter rail service between the cities of Santiago del Estero and La Banda in Santiago del Estero Province. Trains run on a 1,000 mmmetre gauge track on a viaduct generally following the former Mitre Railway alignment. The line also crosses the Puente Negro, a bridge that had been closed for over 40 years.
The Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades is a football stadium located in the city of Santiago del Estero in the homonymous province of Argentina. The stadium was inaugurated on 4 March 2021, before the 2019 Supercopa Argentina match contested by River Plate and Racing Club. President of Argentina Alberto Fernández attended the ceremony.
Mercedes Mariana "Nina" Aragonés de Juárez was an Argentine politician who was Governor of Santiago del Estero Province from 2002 to 2004. The wife of longtime governor and local caudillo Carlos Arturo Juárez, Aragonés was the last head of a provincial state in Argentina removed from office through federal intervention.
Oscar Herrera Ahuad is an Argentine physician and politician who is currently a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Misiones Province since 10 December 2023. He previously served as governor of Misiones from 2019 to 2023, and as Vice Governor under Hugo Passalacqua. Herrera Ahuad belongs to the Party of Social Concord.
Graciela "Chaco" Navarro is an Argentine politician. She served as National Deputy elected in Santiago del Estero from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Civic Front for Santiago (FCpS), she has sat in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc from 2019 to 2023.
Events in the year 2022 in Argentina.
The Chamber of Deputies of Santiago del Estero Province is the unicameral legislative body of Santiago del Estero Province, in Argentina. It comprises 40 legislators, elected in a single province-wide multi-member district through proportional representation using the D'Hondt system.
José Emilio Neder is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Santiago del Estero since 2019. He belongs to the Justicialist Party, and has formed part of the Civic Front for Santiago since its foundation in 2005.
