Capital is a department

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

 (municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

) of Mendoza Province

Mendoza Province

The Province of Mendoza is a province of Argentina, located in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. It borders to the north with San Juan, the south with La Pampa and Neuquén, the east with San Luis, and to the west with the republic of Chile; the international limit is...

 in Argentina

Argentina

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. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 111,000 inhabitants in an area of 54 km², and its head city is Mendoza

Mendoza, Argentina

Mendoza is the capital city of Mendoza Province, 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 , Mendoza's population was 110,993...

, which also serves as the provincial capital.

Sports

Mendoza is home to several football

Football (soccer)

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 clubs, the most notable of these is Gimnasia y Esgrima

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza

Club Gimnasia y Esgrima is an Argentine football club located in the city of Mendoza. Its first division team currently plays in the Torneo Argentino B, the regionalised 4th division of Argentine football league system.The club has played 121 games in the Argentine Primera División totalizing 122...

 who play in the regionalised 3rd Division

Torneo Argentino A

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The most notable football team of the moment is Club Atletico Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba, which participates in the first division of Argentinian Football. Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia is also a very well known football team, it's disputing the Nacional B tournament which is second division in Argentina.

Education

The main campus of the National University of Cuyo

National University of Cuyo

The National University of Cuyo is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina....

 is based in Mendoza City. UTN (Universidad Tecnologica Nacional) is also situated in Mendoza City.

Districts

The Department is divided in seven districts:

Primera Sección

Segunda Sección

Tercera Sección

Cuarta Sección

Quinta Sección

Sexta Sección

Zona Oeste

External links

• Municipal Website (Spanish)
• National University of Cuyo (Spanish)
• Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza (Spanish)
• Photos of Mendoza and surroundings
• Los Andes newspaper online edition (Spanish)
• Diario Uno, newspaper online edition (Spanish)
• El Sol newspaper (5 issues every week, Monday to Friday) (Spanish)
• Discover Mendoza - Tourism in Mendoza
• Universidad de Congreso