The lake
Rowing boats.
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Parque 9 de Julio is the green lung of San Miguel de Tucumán and counted as the largest park in northern Argentina. It was designed by the French landscape architect Charles Thays, who also laid out the Palermo woods in Buenos Aires and Parque Sarmiento in Córdoba, and opened on 23 September 1916, the centenary year of Argentina's declaration of independence in this very city; that date, 9 July 1816, gives it its name. It originally covered four hundred hectares, and about half is green park today, with tall trees, paths, lawns and a boating lake, plus the historic Casa Colombres, an elegant old residence now a museum of the sugar industry on which Tucumán province grew. Entry is free, and it is a pleasant refuge on hot days, used by locals for walks, runs and family picnics, especially at weekends.
Rowing boats.
Sugar museum.
Shade and picnics.
East side of San Miguel de Tucumán
After 9 July 1816, when Argentina declared independence in Tucumán itself.
