Where is Leones?
City of the Argentina Republic, is one of the most important centers of the department Juárez Marks, located in pedanía Espinillos, in the Southeastern of the province of Cordoba.
Geographic center of the country, to 248 km of the city of Cordoba, capital of the province, to 17 km of the city departmental head Juárez Marks, separate 160 km of Rosary and 465 km of the Federal Capital.
In the important axis that forms the National Route Nº 9, that unites the Federal Capital with the Cordoban capital. According to level of the Military Geographic Institute, Leones is to 126 meters on the level of the sea.
The city counts on a municipal radius of 351 hectares, doing a total of 264 apples and has a radius of rural influence of 75108 hectares.
The data of indicate that in the national census of 1980 Lions it had a population of 8,800 inhabitants, whereas in the later one made in 1991 the city had 9,442 inhabitants, having to incorporate in addition the settlers to the countryside.
In year 1996 the provincial census took shape and the results registered 9,808 people in the city, plus which they resided in the rural sector.
Finally the national census of 2001 verified a population in the city of 9,888 people of who 5,092 are women and 4,796 men, as far as the countryside it registers 671 inhabitants, of who 305 are women and 366 men.
So that unofficially on the data of census 2001, Lions count on a total of 10,559 inhabitants, of who 5,397 are women and 5,162 men.
Italian and Spanish immigrants were his first inhabitants, who dedicated themselves to the rural tasks in surrounding earth. From 1947 it is the seat of the National Celebration of the Wheat for being considered then like the main body of the greater producing zone of this cereal.
Account with some industries related to the farming activity.
Created by Melanie Blejter y Gaston Dachowker
