Burruyacú Department 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...

 located in the northwest of the Tucumán Province

Tucumán Province

Tucumán is the most densely populated, and the smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the capital is San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neighboring provinces are, clockwise from the north: Salta, Santiago del Estero and...

, Argentina. According to the 2001 census, its population was 32,936 The Department seat is the town of Burruyacú

Burruyacú

Burruyacú is a settlement in Tucumán Province in northern Argentina....

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Geography

The department has a total area of 3,605 km², making it the largest department in the province. It has a mountainous west formed by the Sierra de Medinas. East of these mountains is a fertile and sparsely populated plain where ranching and agriculture dominate the land use.

Adjacent districts

• Salta Province
  Salta Province
  Salta is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy...
  
   – north
• Santiago del Estero Province
  Santiago del Estero Province
  Santiago del Estero is a province of Argentina, located in the north of the country. Neighbouring provinces are from the north clockwise Salta, Chaco, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca and Tucumán.-History:...
  
   – east
• Cruz Alta Department – south
• Trancas Department and Tafí Viejo Department – west

Towns and comunas rurales

• Benjamín Aráoz y El Tajamar
• Burruyacú
  Burruyacú
  Burruyacú is a settlement in Tucumán Province in northern Argentina....
  
  
• El Chañar
  El Chañar
  El Chañar is a settlement in Tucumán Province in northern Argentina....
  
  
• El Naranjo y El Sunchal
• El Puestito
• El Timbó
• Garmendia
  Garmendia
  Garmendia is the surname of a noble family of the Basque Country region of Guipuzcoa, in Spain. The surname means "the volcano" or "the fire mountain" , after Garmendia de Iraurgui, later known as Salvatierra de Iraurgui, later the site of the cities of Azpeitia and Azkoitia.The family Garmendia...
  
  
• La Ramada y La Cruz
• Piedrabuena
• 7 de abril
• Tala Pozo
• Villa Padre Monti

Major highways

• National Route 34
• Tucumán Province Route 304
• Tucumán Province Route 305
• Tucuman Province Route 310
• Tucuman Province Route 317
• Tucuman Province Route 321
• Tucuman Province Route 336