National University of the Chaco Austral


The National University of the Chaco Austral is a very recently established national university located in Presidencia [Roque Sáenz Peña|Sáenz Peña], a city in the agrarian, central section of Chaco Province, Argentina. It was established in 2007 by an initiative of Governor Jorge Capitanich, and was included as part of a plan to geographically diversify Argentina's National University system; as such, its installations consist of the former local campus of the National [University of the Northeast], notably the School of Agronomy and Forestry, and new additions.