[1][2] It is located approximately 229 km from the provincial capital city of Santiago del Estero.

On 1 January 2011, and on 21 February and 2 September of the same year, several large areas were the epicentres of earthquakes with levels 7.0, 5.9, and 6.9 respectively, on the Richter Scale.

None of these caused damage or had victims since they were registered at depths of 600km; however, the telluric movements ended up shaking tall buildings in several provinces, including the city of Buenos Aires.

Very serious damage was reported in the centre and north of the province, where houses collapsed and cracks appeared in the ground.

[4][5] Although geological activity has been happening since prehistory, the earthquake on 20 March 1861 set an important milestone in the history of Argentinean seismic events, since it was the strongest ever registered and documented in the country.