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The city is the commercial center of an irrigated area that produces large quantities of sugarcane, rice, tobacco, and fruit. The National University of Tucumán ( 1914) and the Saint Thomas Aquinas University of the North ( 1965) are in the city.
On July 9, 1816 a congress gathered in Tucumán declared the independence from Spain, which did not officially recognised it until 1862. The meeting place of the assembly, Independence House, has been preserved as a national shrine. Population ( 1991) 470,809.
geography stubs Cities in Argentina