Mendoza, officially the City of Mendoza, is the capital of the province of Mendoza in Argentina. It is located in the northern-central part of the province, in a region of foothills and high plains, on the eastern side of the Andes. As of the 2010 census [INDEC], Mendoza had a population of 115,041 with a metropolitan population of 1,055,679, making Greater Mendoza the fourth largest census metropolitan area in the country.
Mendoza skyline
Print of the second foundation of Mendoza, 1562
Lake in General San Martín Park
Teatro Independencia
Mendoza, officially Province of Mendoza, is a province of Argentina, in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders San Juan to the north, La Pampa and Neuquén to the south, San Luis to the east, and the republic of Chile to the west; the international limit is marked by the Andes mountain range. Its capital city is the homonymous city of Mendoza.
Aconcagua, the highest mountain in America
View (looking West) from the Cabildo in the city of Mendoza, prior to the great quake of 1861
Ex-governor Alfredo Cornejo (left) and ex-president Mauricio Macri (right)
The snowy Andes viewed from the National Route 7