General Mosconi (Salta)

General Enrique Mosconi (former Ciro Echesortu, Vespucio) is a city in the General José de San Martín department, located north of the province of Salta, Argentina. It developed socially and economically due to oil exploitation that began in 1925 in a place called Quebrada de Galarza, six km west of Gral. Mosconi, although its beginnings as a population center were that of logging exploitation, an activity that led forward the firm Echesortu y Casas, owner of the land where the town was built. Currently it is one of the cities with the most social history in the Northern Bermejo Region, and yet one of the many marginalized by the recent socioeconomic advance of the provincial capital.

With a torrid tropical climate, General Mosconi is nestled between the tropical jungle and the Chaco of Salta at the foot of the Aguaragüe and Tartagal mountains.

This city acquired at the end of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI national journalistic relevance when the cuts on national route 34 began, organizing pickets (or cutting of routes and/or streets) by the so-called 'piqueteros', from a group of workers fired from the national oil company YPF that was dismembered in the late '90s, which is why they were also known as the 'ypeefeños'. This group expressed itself against the government and the police forces, demanding and demanding social assistance. The repression of the protests by the National Gendarmerie caused several deaths, among them: Orlando Justiniano, Urbano Santillán and Aníbal Verón.

Population

It had 13,118 inhabitants (Indec, 2001), which represents an increase of 18.4% compared to the 11,081 inhabitants (Indec, 1991) of the previous census. Includes the Fátima neighborhood and the Martínez Saravia neighborhood.

Toponymy

His name is eponymous with the military General Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi, as a tribute to the person who promoted oil exploitation in Argentina. The discoverer of the oil fields in the areas surrounding Mosconi was Francisco Tobar.

Civil Defense

Seismicity

Seismicity in the Salta area is frequent and of low intensity, and a seismic silence of medium to severe earthquakes every 40 years.

• Sismo de 1930: Although such catastrophic geological activity occurs since prehistoric times, the earthquake of December 24, 1930 (92 years), noted an important milestone in the history of Jewish seismic events, with 6,4 Richter. But nothing changed extreme care and/or restricting building codes.
• 1948 earthquake: 25 August 1948 (75 years) with 7.0 Richter, which destroyed buildings and opened numerous cracks in vast areas
• Sismo de 2010: el 27 de febrero de 2010 (13 años) con 6,1 Richter

Parishes of the Catholic Church in General Mosconi