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Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. With a population of 464,678 inhabitants, it is Argentina's 8th largest city.

It is situated in the Lerma Valley, 1,152 meters above sea level, at the foothills of the Andes mountains.

The weather is warm and dry, with annual averages of 756 mm of rainfall and an average temperature of 16.4 degrees celieus (20.4 degrees celieus in summer, 10.8 degree celieus in winter). January and February are the months with greatest rainfall. During the spring, Salta is occasionally plagued by severe, week long dust storms.

Nicknamed Salta la Linda ("Salta the Fair"), it has become a major tourist destination due to its old, colonial architecture and the natural scenery of the valleys westward. Attractions in the city proper include the 18th century Cabildo, the neo-classical style Cathedral, and the July 9 central square. The city's museums exhibit a wide range of artifacts and art work from the native civilations that flourished in the area (Salta is located in the Southernmost region of what was the Inca empire, belonging to the Collasuyu, one of the four areas the empire was divided until the Spanish conquest), as well as from the 16th century Spanish conquest and the colonial and post-colonial periods. Salta is also the starting point of the "Train to the Clouds" (Tren a las nubes), and on the way to red-soiled Cafayate, as well as to other nearby tourist destinations.

The Martin Miguel de Guemes Airport, 6 kilometres southeast of the city, has regular flights to Buenos Aires, Tucuman, Jujuy, Cordoba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia).

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salta