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Departments (Spanish: departamentos) form the second level of administrative division (below the provinces), and are subdivided in municipalities. They are extended in all of Argentina except for the Province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the national capital, each of which has different administrative arrangements (respectively partidos and comunas).

Except in La Rioja, Mendoza, and San Juan Provinces, departments have no executive authorities or assemblies of their own. However, they serve as territorial constituencies for the election of members of the legislative bodies of most provinces. For example, in Santa Fe Province, each department returns one senator to the provincial senate. In Tucumán Province, on the other hand, where legislators are elected by zone (Capital, East, West) the departments serve only as districts for the organization of certain civil agencies, such as the police or the health system.

There are 377 departments in all, not including the two "nominal" departments composed of internationally disputed territory in Tierra del Fuego Province: Antártida Argentina, and Islas del Atlántico Sur (which includes the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands). Of the department names, 31 are not unique within Argentina, with the result that 90 departments have identically or similarly named counterparts in one or more other Argentine province.

List of departments[]

Departments with the same or similar names[]

Some departments have similar names

Referring to Manuel Belgrano in some form 7x

• Belgrano Department: 3x
• Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department, Jujuy
• General Belgrano Department: 2x
• General Manuel Belgrano Department, Misiones

Referring to José de San Martín 10x

• General San Martín Department: 2x
• Libertador General San Martín Department: 3x
• San Martín Department: 5x

Departments in different provinces having the same name

See also[]

• For a list of partidos in the province of Buenos Aires, see Partidos of Buenos Aires
• For a list of comunas in the city of Buenos Aires, see Communes of Buenos Aires