Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza
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City of Mendoza Ciudad de Mendoza (Spanish) | ||
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Area code | +54 261 | |
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Website | ciudaddemendoza.gov.ar |
Mendoza (Latin American Spanish: [menˈdosa]), officially the City of Mendoza (Spanish: Ciudad de 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.
come to the city for easy access to the Andes.Two of the main industries of the Mendoza area are olive oil production and Argentine wine. The region around Greater Mendoza is the largest wine-producing area in South America. As such, Mendoza is one of the eleven Great Wine Capitals,[3] and the city is an emerging enotourism destination and base for exploring the region's hundreds of wineries located along the Argentina Wine Route.
History
On 2 March 1561, Pedro del Castillo founded the city and named it Ciudad de Mendoza del Nuevo Valle de La Rioja after the governor of Chile, Don García Hurtado de Mendoza.[4] Before the 1560s the area was populated by tribes known as the Huarpes and Puelches. The Huarpes devised a system of irrigation that was later developed by the Spanish. This allowed for an increase in population that might not have otherwise occurred. The system is still evident today in the wide trenches (acequias), which run along all city streets, watering the approximately 100,000 trees that line every street in Mendoza.
It is estimated that fewer than 80 Spanish settlers lived in the area before 1600, but later prosperity increased due to the use of indigenous and slave labor, and the
Mendoza suffered a severe earthquake in 1861 that killed at least 5,000 people. The city was rebuilt, incorporating innovative urban designs that would better tolerate such seismic activity. Mendoza was rebuilt with large squares and wider streets and sidewalks than any other city in Argentina. Avenue Bartolomé Mitre and additional small squares are examples of that design.Tourism, wine production, and more recently the exploitation of commodities such as oil[6] and uranium[7] ensure Mendoza's status as a key regional centre. Important suburbs such as Godoy Cruz, Guaymallén, Las Heras and Luján de Cuyo have in recent decades far outpaced the city proper in population. Comprising half the metro population of 212,000 in 1947, these suburbs grew to nearly seven-eighths of the total metro area of over 1,000,000 by 2015, making Mendoza the most dispersed metro area in Argentina.[8]
Culture
Mendoza has several museums, including the Museo Cornelio Moyano, a natural history museum, and the Museo del Área Fundacional (Historical Regional Foundation Museum) on Pedro del Castillo Square. The Museo Nacional del Vino (National Wine Museum), focusing on the history of winemaking in the area, is 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Mendoza in Maipú. The Casa de Fader, a historic house museum, is an 1890 mansion once home to artist Fernando Fader in nearby Mayor Drummond, 14 kilometres (9 miles) south of Mendoza. The mansion is home to many of the artist's paintings.
The Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia (The National Grape Harvest Festival) occurs in early March each year. Part of the festivities include a
In 2008,
Urban structure
Parque General San Martín (
One common point of interest is the
Education
Mendoza has a number of universities, including the major
Mendoza is a popular place to learn Spanish, and there are a number of Spanish language schools, including Intercultural, Green Fields and SIMA.[11]
Transportation
Mendoza is 1,037 km (644 mi) from
The public transport system includes buses, the
A heritage railway, El Tren del Vino (The Wine Train), is being planned which will also provide local transportation; it will run through wine-producing districts of Mendoza.[needs update][13]
Metrotranvía
A 17-kilometre (11 mi)
Transandine Railway
Mendoza's development was helped partly due to its position at the start of the Transandine Railway linking it to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile. The only railway operable between Argentina and Chile, after many years of inactivity, it remains currently abandoned.[15][16][17][18]
The railway is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Wine industry
Argentina's Malbec wines originate from Mendoza's high-altitude wine regions of Lujan de Cuyo and the Uco Valley. These districts are located in the foothills of the Andes mountains between 2,800 and 5,000 feet elevation.[19][20][21][22] Vintner Nicolas Catena Zapata is considered the pioneer of high-altitude growing and was the first, in 1994, to plant a malbec vineyard at 5,000 feet above sea level in the Mendoza region. His family is also credited with making world-class wines and giving status to the wines of Argentina.[23]
The subject of elevation is of much interest to the wine world because with increased altitude, the intensity of the sunlight increases. The role of this increased light intensity is currently being investigated by Catena Zapata's research and development department headed up by Laura Catena, Alejandro Vigil and Fernando Buscema.
In film
In video games
Mendoza appears as the penultimate level in the video game Hitman 3. It contains hints of Argentine culture, such as mate, tango, and wine production.
Climate
Mendoza's climate is characterised as an
Climate data for Mendoza Airport , Argentina (1991–2020, extremes 1949–present)
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 44.4 (111.9) |
40.6 (105.1) |
37.8 (100.0) |
34.0 (93.2) |
33.0 (91.4) |
30.4 (86.7) |
33.0 (91.4) |
34.4 (93.9) |
36.0 (96.8) |
40.1 (104.2) |
40.8 (105.4) |
44.9 (112.8) |
44.9 (112.8) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 32.8 (91.0) |
31.0 (87.8) |
28.1 (82.6) |
23.3 (73.9) |
18.7 (65.7) |
15.9 (60.6) |
15.3 (59.5) |
18.6 (65.5) |
21.8 (71.2) |
25.7 (78.3) |
29.2 (84.6) |
32.0 (89.6) |
24.4 (75.9) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.9 (78.6) |
24.1 (75.4) |
21.5 (70.7) |
16.5 (61.7) |
12.1 (53.8) |
8.7 (47.7) |
7.9 (46.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
14.5 (58.1) |
18.7 (65.7) |
22.3 (72.1) |
25.1 (77.2) |
17.3 (63.1) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19.3 (66.7) |
17.8 (64.0) |
15.7 (60.3) |
10.8 (51.4) |
6.8 (44.2) |
2.9 (37.2) |
2.0 (35.6) |
4.3 (39.7) |
7.8 (46.0) |
11.9 (53.4) |
15.4 (59.7) |
18.1 (64.6) |
11.1 (52.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | 7.5 (45.5) |
4.8 (40.6) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
−4.6 (23.7) |
0.1 (32.2) |
2.7 (36.9) |
5.3 (41.5) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 47.2 (1.86) |
40.8 (1.61) |
31.6 (1.24) |
18.5 (0.73) |
11.0 (0.43) |
5.7 (0.22) |
5.0 (0.20) |
7.9 (0.31) |
12.3 (0.48) |
11.2 (0.44) |
22.1 (0.87) |
24.7 (0.97) |
238.0 (9.37) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.9 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 44.4 |
Average snowy days | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
Average relative humidity (%)
|
48.4 | 53.8 | 59.7 | 64.6 | 69.1 | 66.9 | 62.1 | 53.2 | 48.3 | 45.3 | 43.5 | 43.8 | 54.9 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 316.2 | 257.1 | 241.8 | 210.0 | 189.1 | 183.0 | 204.6 | 232.5 | 228.0 | 275.9 | 309.0 | 328.6 | 2,975.8 |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 10.2 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 8.9 | 10.3 | 10.6 | 8.1 |
Percent possible sunshine | 67 | 69 | 61 | 64 | 60 | 56 | 58 | 68 | 63 | 70 | 70 | 64 | 64 |
Source 1: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional[29][30][31] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: |
Climate data for Mendoza Observatory (1991–2020, extremes 1961–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 40.2 (104.4) |
38.2 (100.8) |
34.6 (94.3) |
31.5 (88.7) |
29.7 (85.5) |
29.5 (85.1) |
33.0 (91.4) |
33.6 (92.5) |
35.2 (95.4) |
37.0 (98.6) |
39.4 (102.9) |
40.1 (104.2) |
40.2 (104.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.7 (87.3) |
29.2 (84.6) |
26.5 (79.7) |
22.0 (71.6) |
18.0 (64.4) |
15.3 (59.5) |
14.7 (58.5) |
17.6 (63.7) |
20.5 (68.9) |
24.0 (75.2) |
27.3 (81.1) |
30.0 (86.0) |
23.0 (73.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 24.4 (75.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
20.2 (68.4) |
15.5 (59.9) |
11.4 (52.5) |
8.2 (46.8) |
7.4 (45.3) |
10.1 (50.2) |
13.5 (56.3) |
17.4 (63.3) |
20.8 (69.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
16.3 (61.3) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 18.3 (64.9) |
16.9 (62.4) |
15.0 (59.0) |
10.9 (51.6) |
7.2 (45.0) |
3.9 (39.0) |
2.9 (37.2) |
4.9 (40.8) |
7.7 (45.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
14.4 (57.9) |
17.1 (62.8) |
10.9 (51.6) |
Record low °C (°F) | 6.2 (43.2) |
7.7 (45.9) |
1.5 (34.7) |
−1.3 (29.7) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
0.6 (33.1) |
3.2 (37.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 39.6 (1.56) |
44.3 (1.74) |
35.7 (1.41) |
23.3 (0.92) |
14.8 (0.58) |
8.1 (0.32) |
8.3 (0.33) |
10.1 (0.40) |
14.6 (0.57) |
13.9 (0.55) |
26.5 (1.04) |
27.8 (1.09) |
267.0 (10.51) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.7 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 56.8 |
Average snowy days | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.1 |
Average relative humidity (%)
|
54.3 | 59.7 | 64.1 | 66.7 | 70.4 | 67.6 | 63.5 | 56.4 | 53.9 | 52.2 | 51.3 | 51.5 | 59.3 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 279.0 | 220.4 | 210.8 | 183.0 | 179.8 | 150.0 | 182.9 | 207.7 | 222.0 | 248.0 | 270.0 | 282.1 | 2,635.7 |
Percent possible sunshine | 64.6 | 59.1 | 55.9 | 54.9 | 56.3 | 50.6 | 58.0 | 61.5 | 62.0 | 62.0 | 64.9 | 64.1 | 58.7 |
Source: Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (sun 1991–2000)[29][30][31][33] |
Sports
See Category:Sport in Mendoza, Argentina
In 1978 Mendoza hosted six matches of the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The six were played at the Malvinas Argentinas Stadium.
In 1982, Mendoza was one of the hosts of the
The city boasts at least two significant football clubs—Independiente Rivadavia and Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza, although neither currently plays in the Primera División. A club from the nearby city of Godoy Cruz, Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, is currently in the 1st division.
International rugby test matches featuring the
People
See Category:People from Mendoza, Argentina
International relations
Mendoza is
See also
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Sources
- V. Letelier (1907). Apuntes sobre el terremoto de Mendoza. Santiago
- V. Blasco Ibánez (1910). Argentina y sus Grandezas. Madrid
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Audio slideshow: Mendoza City, Argentina- An earthquake hotspot. Travel writer Christabelle Dilks discusses how earthquakes have shaped the city of Mendoza. Royal Geographical Society's Hidden Journeys project
- Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
- Tourism office
- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina. (in Spanish)
- Mendoza travel guide from Wikivoyage