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San Miguel de Tucumán
City in Argentina

San Miguel de Tucumán

San Miguel de Tucumán, usually called simply Tucumán, is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina 1,311 kilometres (815 mi) from Buenos Aires.

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It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza and the most important city of the northern region. The Spanish conquistador Diego de Villarroel founded the city in 1565 in the course of an expedition from present-day Peru. Tucumán moved to its present site in 1685.

Get in

Getting to San Miguel de Tucumán

At Teniente Benjamín Matienzo International Airport, 9 km east from San Miguel de Tucumán, there are daily flights from Buenos Aires and Córdoba with Aerolíneas Argentinas, Flybondi, and JetSmart. There is a weekly flight to Punta Cana, three weekly flights to Panamá and, starting December 2025, there will be flights to Lima. Trenes Argentinos runs two weekly trains from Buenos Aires and back.

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    Tucumán Mitre
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Independence House
  2. 02
    Government House

    25 de Mayo 90 (across from the main square "Plaza Independencia").

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    San Francisco Church
Eat

Where to eat

Find where the locals eat! This includes an indoor market somewhere on the corner of Muñeca & Mendoza: empanadas, tamales, pizza, fresh fruit & vegetables, all very cheap.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.