Department of Santa Rosa, Mendoza Argentina

Department of Santa Rosa

The Department Santa Rosa is located in the northeast portion of the province, 81 kilometres from the capital city of Mendoza.
It is bordered in the north by the departments of Lavalle and San Martin, in the south by San Rafael, in the east by La Paz, and in the west by Junín, Rivadavia, and San Carlos.
It is divided into 5 districts: 12 de Octubre, Las Catitas, Ñanuñan, La Dormida, and Villa Santa Rosa.
Its climate is semiarid, with a tendency to be warm in most of the territory, and with a tendency to be cool in the extreme south.
The Tunuyán River is the largest of the department and it runs through the northeast to the southwest, with occasional appreciable flows in the summer, under the influence of the rain.
The Department is part of the so-called Gran Llañura de la Travesía, a large basin of fluvial sedimentation from the Tertiary and Quaternary.
The plain is presented as a flat surface with a slight tilt toward the east, and there are many dunes, especially in the eastern part of the Department.
The flora is represented in its majority by algarrobo dulce, zampa, and jarilla, among others.

Tourist Attractions:

* Reserva Ñacuñán
It is a long plain with a little slope, runoff and chains of dunes.
Since 1986, it is part of the World Network of Biosphere Reservations, the Programme Men and the Biosphere from UNESCO.
In the Province of Mendoza, it was the first reservation, established as a Forest Reservation, for the protection of the trees forest, felled indiscriminately until 1937; it aimed as well as at the soil and native plant species conservation such as the carob, chañares, jarillal and zampa, and as animal species vizcachas, hares and feral pigs.
It is the ideal landscape for the practice of ecotourism, to observe the flora and fauna, to do photographic safaris and hiking. 

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