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Cordoba is Argentina's second largest city with 1.3 million inhabitants. Blessed in location at the base of the breath-taking Sierra Chica, Cordoba is the perfect university town everyone is sure to fall in love with. The natural beauty of the Andes gives this city a youthful outdoorsy vibrancy, providing many excursions for the outdoor enthusiasts.
In 2000, Cordoba was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This didn't come as much of a surprise. Prior to the rise of Buenos Aires, Cordoba was Argentina's center of arts and learning, a place of scholars and priests, churches and universities. It was the Jesuits in the 16th century that opened Cordoba's university and financed projects by establishing six large estancias throughout the region.
The Primero, or Suquia River forms Cordoba's main natural landmark. In the center is the Plaza San Martin, named after Argentina's great liberator and the site of the city's cathedral. To the south of the Plaza you'll find the Calle Obispo Trejos, a fantastic avenue filled the some of the city's most spectacular colonial buildings including the Church Compania de Jesus, built in 1645 and made famous by its uniquely designed roof!
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