La Rioja occurs as one of a provinces of Argentina and is, located in the west of the united states. Neighboring provinces come from either a n clockwise Catamarca, Córdoba, San Luis and San Juan.

Among Argentines these are noted & notorious when a province in which previous president & controversial figure Carlos Menem was governor and caudillo.

History
Petroglyphs at the Talampaya National Park dated around 10,000 years BC set original inhabitants yearn prior to a arrival of the Spanish conquerors. After it arrived to La Rioja in a 16th century it uncovered the diaguitas, capayanes and a olongastas.

Juan Ramírez de Velazco founded Todos los Santos first state la Nueva Rioja within 1591 under the food and drug administration of Tucumán of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Around 1630 there was an revolt of the calchaquíes aborigins that was finished by governor Albornoz.

Within 1783, fallowing a creation of the Viceroyalty of the River Plate the control of the province of 10,00Indweller passed to the Córdoba indendency. A province acquired independence from either Córdoba within 1820. A figure of the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga emerges and fallowing a perdiod internal inestability around Argentina a province eventually joined the Argentine Confederation in 1853.

A immigration to Argentina of the early 20th century was less many around La Rioja than around more Argentine provinces. Among a couple of to adventure to the province were Syrians and Lebanese immigrants.

Geography and climate
Placed in the Argentine Northwest area, its landscape is arid to semi-arid, & a dry climate receives annually 200 millimeter of precipitations, has short winters and super hot summers.

From either a Andes at the west, using peaks of as much as 6,872 meters (Cerro Bonete), a relief's height descents towards a sierras of the neighboring dry Pampas zone.

A Talampaya National Park is a dry red-soil cannon of the ancient extinguished Talampaya river, which contains numbers of bulwarks & rock formations that produce it an interesting holidaymaker destination.

Economy
La Rioja's agriculture (when well as cities) lays on the shore of the couple of permanents lakes & oasis that allow irrigation, with sole 190 square kilometer of cultivated land. Vineyards, nuts and olive plantations are a usual, followed by cotton.

A province's independent activity is the grape, and its associated wine production, specially around a Chilecito arethe, with a production of 8 million litres by the month.

Cattle (250,000 heads) and goats (150,000 heads) are secondary activities, particularly for skin & leather. Clay represents the independent mining activity, & uranium is also extracted touching El Colorado.

Touristry is an expanding activity. Besides a Talampaya National Park, tourists camping La Rioja commonly last as well to the Chilecito town, Cerro diamond state La Cruz, Termas delaware Santa Teresita hot baths & a village of Villa Sanagasta.

Political division
A province is divided inside Eighteen departments (spanish departamentos).