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Jujuy

American  
[hoo-hwee] / huˈʰwi /

noun

  1. a city in NW Argentina.


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Cazzu hails from the province of Jujuy, miles away from the musical snobbery that plagues much of Buenos Aires, and her genuine investment in a pan-Latino idiom is contagious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

Claudia Vittoria Salas, a 55-year-old transgender tailor and house cleaner, said she had already served as a godparent to three of her nieces and nephews back home in Jujuy, in northern Argentina.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2023

He said 51 regulated research and development projects are currently taking place around the country, including Cannava in Jujuy province, Agrogenetica Riojana in La Rioja, Biofabrica in Misiones and Medicinal Cannabis in San Juan.

From Reuters ● Mar. 8, 2023

"There is a mafia," says Dr María Laura Lerma, a psychologist based in a remote mountain community in Jujuy in the country's north-west.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2023

By the end of the sixteenth century the Spanish power was firmly established in settlements that have since become the Argentine provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca, Santiago, Rioja, and Cordoba.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

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